Making Predictions in a Mystery: "Object Lesson" — Unit test Answers

Which can readers use to find the meaning of an unfamiliar word? Check all that apply.root wordsformal wordsword endingsparts of speechlength of speech

Read this stanza from "The Raven."Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?"This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"– Merely this and nothing more.

Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson, Part 1.""What time does the first period end, Miss Carpenter?""At 9:35."Every head turned toward the clock on the wall."And it's only 8:56," Ellery said cheerfully. "That gives us thirty-nine minutes — more than enough time.”

Read the excerpt from The Code Book.A theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding Alice's private key.

Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson, Part 2."The 41 boys and girls were buzzing and giggling now.Ellery pounced. Clinging to one of the rectangles was a needle-thin sliver of paper about an inch long, a sort of paper shaving. He fingered it, held it up to the light. It was not newsprint. Too full-bodied, too tough-textured . . .Then he knew what it must be.Less than two minutes left.

Based on the events of "Object Lesson, Part 1," what will most likely happen in “Object Lesson, Part 2”?

Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson, Part 2."“We have twenty-eight minutes." He raised his voice, smiling. "Naturally the thief has ditched the money, hoping to recover it when the coast is clear. It's therefore hidden somewhere in the classroom. All right, Miss Carpenter, we'll take the desks and seats first. Look under them, too — chewing gum makes a handy adhesive. Eh, class?"

Read this stanza from "The Raven."Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,Soon again I heard a tapping something louder than before."Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice;Let me see, then, what thereat is and this mystery explore–Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;– 'Tis the wind and nothing more."

Which incident taken from O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” is the best example of irony?

Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”“A body and a spirit,” he repeated. “The body, lady, is like a house: it don’t go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a automobile: always on the move, always . . .”This excerpt contains

Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”He held the pose for almost fifty seconds and then he picked up his box and came on to the porch and dropped down on the bottom step. “Lady,” he said in a firm nasal voice, “I’d give a fortune to live where I could see me a sun do that every evening.”Keeping in mind the ending of the story, which best describes the irony of Mr. Shiftlet’s statement?

Look at the photograph.

Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson, Part 2.""To cut these strips of newspaper to the same size as dollar bills, the thief must have used a real bill as a pattern. If he cut too close, the scissors would shave off a sliver of the bill.”

Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson, Part 2."He leaned against Louise's desk, forcing himself to relax.It was these "simple" problems. Nothing big and important like murder, blackmail, bank robbery. A miserable seven dollars lifted by a teenage delinquent in an overcrowded classroom . . .He thought furiously.Let the bell ring at 9:35 and the boy strut out of Miss Carpenter's room undetected, with his loot, and he would send up a howl like a wolf cub over his first kill.

Look at the photograph and accompanying caption.This is a photograph of the Hoover Dam in 1941 by acclaimed American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams.