WorksheetsThe Hawk Can Soar Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
The author most likely narrates her essay out of chronological order to help convey her —
memories and thoughts about her disease
anger about her disease and its history
medical condition and its treatment
career history and hopes for the future
In paragraph 3, the author most likely includes information about her family's history to —
explain the time it takes to recognize the disease
give the reader more information about her personality
offer a scientific medical diagnosis
help readers understand how lucky she has been
Impossible to disprove; unquestionable.
(a)
The term chimera in paragraph 7 alludes to a monster in Greek mythology composed of parts from multiple animals, commonly a lion, goat, and snake. By describing her thoughts as a chimera, the author most likely intends to —
describe the range of different thoughts she has
emphasize the implausibility of her thoughts
prove how monstrous her thoughts feel
show which way her thoughts are pulling her
The phrase 'tilting at windmills' alludes to an event in the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes where the protagonist imagines he is fighting giants when he is actually fighting windmills. What does the phrase 'tilting at windmills' likely mean in paragraph 7?
Fighting in battle
Fighting to spite others
Fighting for a better reality
Fighting in vain
Spreading harmfully in a subtle way.
(a)
Eventually, however, I am disabled. Disabled. Like this word is the sum total of my existence. That dragging leg. That dropping foot. That unbearable fatigue. A woman with a rollator moving slowly through the world. These things signal my difference whenever I move. They are obvious. Unrestrained.
Which two sentences from paragraph 8 are purposeful fragments?
Eventually, however, I am disabled.
That dragging leg.
A woman with a rollator moving slowly through the world.
These things signal my difference whenever I move.
They are obvious.
Soon, I leave my university career. I slowly begin to disappear from view. The things I have earned seem ever further away. This is the nature of this difference, I realize. The way disability stands in for everything you were or ever would have been. Even when you say it will not. Even when you refuse its existence. Disability is contemptuous of your refusal. It scoffs at your desperate concern. It pushes forward and it drags you after it.
In paragraph 9, the author uses personification to describe her —
career
concern
disability
future
To deteriorate due to disease, injury, or lack of use.
(a)
The author describes her experience with her illness in detail to —
ensure that readers will be sympathetic
demonstrate that she is not as ill as it seems
show how people can overcome their circumstances
make it clear that she is not her disease
An indirect reference to a literary work or to a historical person, place, or event.
(a)
Read the sentence from paragraph 5. "But each new environment is a landscape of loss." What mood does this sentence create?
Content
Hopeless
Isolated
Reflective
It’s a dreary morning, mist hanging in veils over the fields, a purplish tinge to the distant trees. I cannot imagine hunting in the rain with a bird aloft but then I do. The rivulets of water standing in the farm ditches. The fresh scent of the pines. The breeze lifting the sky and then lifting the sky again, each cloud turning. For just a moment, my heart lifts and, as if to answer me, the hawk rises and spreads its wings and then flaps back into place. Gives itself a shake as it strains against its bindings and then looks at me again, the expressionless light of its eyes seeming to say, What’re you going to do?
Which two sentences suggest ways in which the writer compares herself to the hawk in paragraph 16?
She knows she can soar.
She is restrained.
She has limited vision.
She likes hunting in the rain.
She dreams of independence.
Scornful
(a)
Why does the author begin the memoir with a description of her current condition?
She doubts the diagnosis of her condition.
She is teaching the reader how to move a walker.
She is showing her respect for the health care workers.
She wants the reader to understand the nature of her condition.
PART A:
I finish pumping my gas, and holding onto the side of my car for balance, I return the nozzle to its cradle, turn and climb back into the driver’s seat and point my car south, toward home. A few minutes later, the man and the hawk are gone and nothing is left but the road ahead, occult, unknown, and yet so familiar by now that I feel every turn in my failing neurons. In my ever hopeful bones.
This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B. Part A: The author’s diction at the conclusion of the selection creates —
PART B:
Fill in the circle before the highlighted sentence or phrase from paragraph 18 that best supports the answer to Part A.
Turn and climb back into the driver’s seat and point my car south, toward home. A few minutes later,
The man and the hawk are gone, and nothing is left but the road ahead, occult, unknown,
And yet so familiar by now that I feel every turn in my failing neurons,
In my ever hopeful bones.
Mysterious or hidden.
(a)
What is the genre of this work?
(a)
What is the author's name?
(a)
