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Using Punctuation — Unit test Answers

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Read the passage from "Optimism.”A poet once said I must be happy because I did not see the bare, cold present, but lived in a beautiful dream. I do live in a beautiful dream; but that dream is the actual, the present,—not cold, but warm; not bare, but furnished with a thousand blessings. The very evil which the poet supposed would be a cruel disillusionment is necessary to the fullest knowledge of joy.

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Keller’s reason for writing "Optimism” is called her

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Which are features of lyric poetry? Choose three answers.

a full storyline

a musical quality

expression of feelings

long length

thoughts about an event

What effects can apostrophe have on a poem? Choose four answers.

It gives the speaker a voice.

It connects the reader to the speaker’s message.

It gives the poem a detached effect.

It makes an imagined addressee feel present.

It gives the poem a personalized effect.

Both Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea and Spiegelman’s Maus relate events of the Holocaust

from a Jewish survivor’s perspective.

using the third-person point of view.

by retelling the experiences of friends.

through the eyes of their fathers.

Which excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God is the best example of regional dialect?

“Shucks! If dat’s her notion she’s barkin’ up de wrong tree. Mah hands is full already.”“

“You got any smaller than him?” He indicated the son who seemed around twenty or so.

For instance during the summer when she heard the subtle but compelling rhythms of the Bahaman drummers, she’d walk over and watch the dances.

But Mrs. Turner’s shape and features were entirely approved by Mrs. Turner.

Read the excerpt from "In Response to Executive Order 9066".I gave her a packet of tomato seedsand asked her to plant them for me, told herwhen the first tomato ripenedshe’d miss me.The narrator gives the impression that

she is an amateur gardener.

she is, in fact, guilty of espionage.

she is hoping the Americans win the war.

she will be gone for a long time.

Read the excerpt from Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea.My very last resistance broken, I let myself be pulled, pushed, and kicked, like a deaf and mute sleepwalker. I could see everything, grasp it and register it, but only later would I try to put in order all the sensations and all the memories. How stunned I was, for example, to discover another time outside time, a universe parallel to this one, a creation within Creation, with its own laws, customs structures, and language.Read the text and study the image from Spiegelman’s Maus.Which theme is addressed in both excerpts?

Ignorance of reality is preferable to awareness.

Physical sensations can be just as painful as the event itself.

People can be worn down to the point of giving up.

Reality can be inexplicably cruel and unfair.

Read the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God.Tea Cake felt sorry for him without knowing why. So he didn’t blurt out the insults he had intended. But he couldn’t hold in everything. They talked about the prospects for the coming season for a moment, then Tea Cake said, “Yo’ wife don’t seem tuh have nothin’ much tuh do, so she kin visit uh lot. Mine got too much tuh do tuh go visitin’ and too much tuh spend time talkin’ tuh folks dat visit her.”Which best describes Tea Cake’s intent in mentioning Janie and Mrs. Turner to Mr. Turner?

He hopes Mr. Turner can influence Mrs. Turner to visit less frequently.

He wants Mr. Turner to encourage Mrs. Turner to find fulfilling activities.

He wants to show Mr. Turner that Janie works harder than Mrs. Turner.

He hopes to encourage Mr. Turner to visit him along with Mrs. Turner.

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