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Unit 4 Assessment: Reading Literature Exam Answers

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Read the quotation from chapter 5 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.“Well, I'll learn her how to meddle. And looky here—you drop that school, you hear? I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better'n what HE is.” What is Twain’s most likely intention for employing humor within this quotation?

to portray Huck’s father as educated and helpful

to portray Huck’s father as uneducated and ignorant

to convince the reader that Huck’s father truly wants to help Huck

to convince the reader that Huck’s father has the ability to be funny

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Which of the following quotations by Huck’s father in chapter 5 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an example of irony?

"Starchy clothes—very. You think you're a good deal of a big-bug, DON'Tyou?"

“You're educated, too, they say—can read and write. You think you're better'n your father, now, don't you, because he can’t?”

“And looky here—you drop that school, you hear? I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better'n what HE is.”

"All right. I'll ask him; and I'll make him pungle, too, or I'll know the reason why.

Read the excerpt from Zora Neale Hurston’s “John Redding Goes to Sea.”"Cose you allus tries tuh know mo' than me, but Ah ain't so ign'rant. Ah knows a heap mahself. Many and many's the people been drove outa their senses by conjuration, or rid tuh deat' by witches."Why does Zora Neale Hurston use non-academic English in this excerpt?

to emphasize the relationship between John and his parents

to provide a historical context in which the events occur

to portray the dialect of Black Americans during the period

to reflect the mixed emotions John’s mother has about her child

Read the excerpt from Hurston’s “John Redding Goes to Sea.”Matty Redding, John's mother, was setting the table for supper. She was a small wiry woman with large eyes that might have been beautiful when she was young, but too much weeping had left them watery and weak.Which best describes the intent of Hurston’s use of voice as it relates to cultural experience?

Hurston explores the outdated notion of women in the kitchen rather than in the workforce.

Hurston reinforces the idea that women openly show their emotions, whereas men try to conceal them.

Hurston highlights the hardships that women in the community are experiencing through her description of Matty Redding.

Hurston comments on the wasted beauty of youth and the cruelty of aging through her portrayal of the main character.

Which excerpt from Hurston’s “John Redding Goes to Sea” is an example of non-academic English?

"Yes, indeed!" said the father looking toward the tree designated.

Sometimes in his dreams he was a prince, riding away in a gorgeous carriage.

Perhaps ten-year-old John was puzzling to the simple folk there in the Florida woods for he was an imaginative child and fond of day-dreams.

"Aw, woman, stop dat talk 'bout conjure. Tain't so nohow. Ah doan want Jawn tuh git dat foolishness in him."

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