AnswersCCPS GSE Language Arts Grade 8 23.01300 YL ICConnections and Predictions in Woody Guthrie's Biography

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Read the excerpt from This Land Was Made for You and Me.Promoters and club owners wanted him to follow their tightly written scripts and sing the melodious, popular songs that were on the radio. Whenever they came at him with their hands full of cash, Woody ran the other way. “I had rather sound like the cab drivers cursing at one another, like the longshoremen yelling, like the cowhands whooping and like the lone wolf barking, than to sound like a slick, smooth tongued, oily lipped, show person.”

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lives of everyday people.
B
beauty of the natural world.
C
lack of compassion in the country.
D
most popular ideas of the time period.
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Based on This Land Was Made for You and Me, which topic did Woody Guthrie write most of his songs about?

A
becoming a farmer
B
traveling the country
C
surviving natural disasters
D
taking care of family
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Which paragraph is most likely taken from a biography?

A
For a whole long hour she wrote, frequently stopping to look off into the distance and bite the end of her pencil with a very learned look, then she would bend over her paper again and write hard and fast. Finally, she laid down her pencil with an air of triumph, jumped up from the stump and rushed toward the house.
B
I was born at Brackish-Pond, in Bermuda, on a farm belonging to Mr. Charles Myners. My mother was a household slave; and my father, whose name was Prince, was a sawyer belonging to Mr. Trimmingham, a ship-builder at Crow-Lane.
C
Dear Joe,—Just a word, to scoff at you, with your extravagant suggestion that I read the biography of Phillips Brooks—the very dullest book that has been printed for a century. Joe, ten pages of Mrs. Cheney's masterly biography of her fathers—no, five pages of it—contain more meat, more sense, more literature, more brilliancy, than that whole basketful of drowsy rubbish put together.
D
The manufacture of cotton was a new industry, developing with great promise in the United States, when Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in the wide valley at the foot of Mt. Greylock, near Adams, Massachusetts.
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Which excerpt from This Land Was Made for You and Me most likely influenced Woody Guthrie to write songs "full of anger and hardship"?

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He’d stick out his thumb and hitchhike, swing onto moving freight trains, and hunker down with other traveling men in flophouses, hobo jungles, and Hoovervilles across Depression America.
B
Woody said the best songs came to him when he was walking down a road. He always had fifteen or twenty songs running around in his mind, just waiting to be put together.
C
Woody milled around in the wings as she sang, the heat from the lights bringing out the musty smell of the theater. When Aunt Molly finished he ambled out, wearing a cowboy hat, boots, and blue jeans.
D
Nothing was holding Woody in New York, and in about a week he was in Washington, staying with Lomax and his wife.
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Read the excerpt from This Land Was Made for You and Me.Finally he launched into a song, then he was going—singing his Dust Bowl songs in a flat Oklahoma twang and spinning out stories.

A
Guthrie relayed his life stories through his songs.
B
Guthrie made up his songs on the spot.
C
Guthrie was better known for his songwriting than for his singing.
D
Guthrie sang about the Dust Bowl because he was originally from Oklahoma.
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Read the excerpt from This Land Was Made for You and Me.Just after New Year’s Day in 1940, Woody set off on one of his unannounced road trips. He left his wife and three kids in a shack in Texas and headed for New York City. It was a long, cold trip in the dead of winter, and every time he stopped in a diner he heard Irving Berlin’s lush, sentimental song, “God Bless America,” on the jukebox. It was exactly the kind of song Woody couldn’t stand, romanticizing America, telling people not to worry, that God would take care of everything.

A
Guthrie was not motivated to write music about his family or Texas.
B
the song "God Bless America" convinced Guthrie that his family would be fine without him.
C
the message Guthrie heard in "God Bless America" contrasted with what he was going through.
D
Guthrie did not worry about things and did not write songs about the concept of worry.
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Based on This Land Was Made for You and Me, which topic most interested Woody Guthrie?

A
people’s need to fit into society
B
the excitement of meeting foreigners
C
the power that folk-singing has over people
D
the problems farmers faced in the Dust Bowl
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What is a characteristic of biographies?

A
They are a form of nonfiction.
B
They explain how something works.
C
They focus on the lives of celebrities.
D
They are written as first-person narratives.
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Read the excerpt from This Land Was Made for You and Me.Alone and frustrated, he fought his way out the only way he knew: by writing another of his hard-bitten songs about how life really was.

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were the only way that he could show his talent and lifelong ambition.
B
made people feel alone and frustrated when they listened to his music.
C
did not offer a clear explanation of his life and the hardships he faced.
D
could be used as Guthrie used them, as support during hard times.
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Read the excerpt from This Land Was Made for You and Me.Writing about what he saw—and felt, and heard about, and read about—gave Woody plenty of material. During his lifetime he wrote down more than three thousand songs, taking stories from everywhere: the front page of the newspaper; union meetings and busted-up strikes; and the sights and sounds of America as he walked “that ribbon of highway.”

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whimsical songs.
B
realistic songs.
C
intellectual songs.
D
soothing songs.

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