AnswersELA 10B - 2023"By the Waters of Babylon," Part 2: Analyzing Theme

"By the Waters of Babylon," Part 2: Analyzing Theme — Unit test Answers

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Read the passage from "Marriage Is a Private Affair” by Chinua Achebe."Have you written to your dad yet?” asked Nene one afternoon as she sat with Nnaemeka in her room at 16 Kasanga Street, Lagos."No. I’ve been thinking about it. I think it’s better to tell him when I get home on leave!”"But why? Your leave is such a long way off yet—six whole weeks. He should be let into our happiness now.”Nnaemeka was silent for a while, and then began very slowly as if he groped for his words: "I wish I were sure it would be happiness to him.”"Of course it must,” replied Nene, a little surprised. "Why shouldn’t it?”"You have lived in Lagos all your life, and you know very little about people in remote parts of the country.”"That’s what you always say. But I don’t believe anybody will be so unlike other people that they will be unhappy when their sons are engaged to marry.”"Yes. They are most unhappy if the engagement is not arranged by them. In our case it’s worse—you are not even an Ibo.”This was said so seriously and so bluntly that Nene could not find speech immediately. In the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the city it had always seemed to her something of a joke that a person’s tribe could determine whom he married.

A
People from different tribes do not marry one another.
B
This does not describe the patriarchal system.
C
Fathers in small villages arrange marriages for their children.
D
Fathers are unhappy when their children become engaged to be married.
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Read the line from Robert Hayden’s poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” then look at the painting Water Lilies by Claude Monet.O light beheld as through refracting tears.

Question illustration
A
It points out that the artwork addresses a sad topic.
B
It explains the importance of light to supporting life.
C
It compares the painting to an emotional experience.
D
It suggests that the scene was painted at night.
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Which cultural differences are revealed through this conflict? Select two options.

A
The daughter resents being asked to work hard all the time, which her mother sees as laziness.
B
The daughter does not value talent or intelligence, whereas her mother believes that they are the two most important qualities a person can have.
C
The daughter wants to be valued for what she is, while the mother believes that the girl should always strive to be more.
D
The daughter believes that her mother should accept and love her, but the mother believes that she should help her daughter succeed.
E
The daughter thinks that her parents owe her love and support, but the mother thinks that the daughter owes them gratitude for providing for her.
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What is a stanza?

A
a group of lines
B
a pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines
C
words that appeal to the senses
D
words with regular patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Which term is a synonym for atmosphere?

A
tone
B
mood
C
action
D
conflict

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"By the Waters of Babylon," Part 2: Analyzing Theme