Writing an Analysis that Compares Two Genres — Unit test

Question 1

How does the narrator's love of music in "The Bridge" affect the plot?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It causes conflict between him and his parents.

Question 2

Read this excerpt from “The Bridge.”I gaped at him, my mouth open like a fish scooping in bugs. Not play in the band? Give up my music? Why didn’t they just ask me to cut out my heart? I sat there staring at my father as though he had just turned into an alien, because for me he had. I didn’t know what in the world I was going to do. I could no more renounce my music than I could give up breathing.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

shocked

Question 3

Which cause-and-effect relationship in “The Bridge” relates to the theme “Sometimes help is found in the most unexpected of places”?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Because the narrator’s math tutor explains the mathematical benefits of music to the narrator’s parents, the narrator is able to rejoin his band.

Question 4

Read this excerpt from "The Bridge.”You’d think my parents would have some understanding of how much I love music, wouldn’t you? They think music is just something extra in my life. They expect me to get into an A-list college and then become a businessman or a scientist or a doctor or an engineer – that’s their plan. That is what will make them proud. And I want to make them proud, I do!

Revolt · Accepted Answer

He believes that his parents simply do not understand his love of music.

Question 5

Which sentences from “The Bridge” most relate to the theme that one’s background often has an impact on one’s beliefs?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

This isn’t because they’re insensitive, you understand, but because they didn’t grow up here. They grew up on the other side of the globe, in India.

Writing an Analysis that Compares Two Genres — Unit test Answers

More from this Course

TRY EDGENUITY HACKS