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Literature Midterm
Literature 8th Honors Midterm
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8th Grade
12/15/2009

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In the beginning of his speech, Martin Luther King, Jr., quotes the Bill of Rights to
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stress that certain rights are guaranteed by the Constitution
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What does King mean he says that one day "every hill and mountain shall be made be low"?
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The need to struggle for basic rights will no longer exist
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The ending of "I Have a Dream" evokes a strong feeling of
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hope and optimism
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Choose the phrase that best describes the workers mentioned in "I hear America Singing."
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People working hard and being satisfied by their work
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What is the meaning of the line "Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else" in "I hear America Singing"?
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The workers put their own meaning and their own feelings into the songs they sing
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What is the theme, or message, that Whitman conveys in "I Hear America Singing"?
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America is the sum of different contributions from many people
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Choose the best description of Chief Dan George's idea of new Native America warrior.
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The new warriors will have skills that give them a sense of worth and purpose
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Which of the following best states Chief Dan George's purpose for writing "There Is a Longing..."?
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He wants to express the needs and desires of Native Americans
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What do the daughter's words in the following passage reversal about her feelings toward her father? "But why should a wall two miles away make my good father sad and angry all within the hour?" asked his daughter quietly
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She both respects and cares for her father
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How do the townspeople respond to rebuilding the wall over and over again?
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They become weak or ill and many die
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What effect does the constant rebuilding of the walls have on the Mandarin?
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He becomes ill and continuous to give orders from his bed
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How does the daughter help her father and Kwan-Si see the solution to the problem?
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She takes them outside to see how kites and wind go together.
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Choose the most accurate summary of "The golden Kite, the Silver Wind."
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Two mandarins engage in a rivalry. As a result, the townspeople suffer. Finally, the mandarins bring an end to the competition and find a way to live next to each other in harmony
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How does the fable "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind" teach a lesson to its readers?
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The story shows how people's choices can hurt the people around them
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The speaker in "The Road Not Taken" must decide which
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road to travel
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Which of the following questions could have been generated while reading this sentence from "New Directions"? Annie over six feet tall, big -boned, decided that she would not go to work as a domestic and leave her "precious babes
" to anyone ese's care.
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What job does Annie refuse to take?
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Which of the following questions could have been generated while reading this sentence from
"New Directions"? When she felt certain that the workers had become dependent on her, she built a stall between the two hives of industry and let the men run for their lunchtime provisions.
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What does Annie do when she knows the workers depend n her meat pies?
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In "To be of Use," the image of "the black heads of seals/ bouncing like half-submerged balls" appeals to the reader's sense of ________.
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Sight
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What is the theme of "To be of Use"?
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People who do important work and take it seriously have rewarding lives.
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According to the speaker in "To be of use," "parlor generals and field deserters" are poeple who
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are not doing something useful
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Which of the following questions could have been generated while reading this line from "To be of use"? The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
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What is real work?
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The lines " We outmaneuvered the footwork/ Of bad angels" in Slam Dunk, & Hook" mean that
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the game distracted them from troubles
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In "Slam, Dunk, & Hook," Komunyakaa writes that when "Sonny Boy's mama died/ He played nonstop all day, so hard/ Our backboard splintered." Why did it splinter?
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Taking out his grief in play, Sonny Boy broke the broad by repeated slams with the ball or is hand.
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When Komunyakaa says the boys were "Glistening with sweat," the image
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provides a precise picture of the players
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The first two lines of "The Spearthrower" by Lillian Morrison are "She walks alone/ to the edge of the park." Why is the woman alone?
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Women interested in athletics have often been ignored
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In the following lines from "The Spearthrower," what is she throwing? and throws into/the bullying dark/her javelin of light/her singing sign
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a poetic wish
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Why does Morrison list the types of athletes b the names of their events in the following lines? that the sprinter surge/ and the hurdler leap/ that the vaulter soar
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To have the reader see the athletes as women
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In "Shoulders," what is the meaning of the lines "Nowhere does his jacket say FRAGILE, HANDLE WITH CARE"?
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We often pay too little attention to the things that should be most special.
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From the evidence in the selection, it is accurate to make the generalization that
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the author wants the children to appreciate nature by discovering new things for themseves
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Which of the following is evidence found in the passage that supports the generalization that "the author enjoys spending time with the children"?
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The author examines the jaw with two children.
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Why does Meimei's mother buy her a small bag of plums?
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As a reward for practicing the art of invisible strength
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How do Meimei and her brothers view the Chinatown alley where they live?
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As a place of adventure
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Why does Meimei describe visiting the shops with her mother on market days as "the one duty I couldn't avoid"?
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She doesn't enjoy the outing because she's embarrased by her mother's behavior
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Why does Meimei find Mrs. Jong's behavior in the shops so embarrassing?
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Meimei feels she is being paraded around to make her mother look good.
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How does Meimei fell about her mother's involvement in her success?
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Disgusted
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The order in which the events happen
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Vincent receives a chess set;Meimei uses her life savers as replacements for the missing chess pieces; Meimei learns about opening chess moves; Meimei's brothers lose their interest in chess
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Which of the following statements represent the principal cause of conflict between Meimei and Mrs. Jong?
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Meimei understands and wants to live by "American rules"; Mrs. Jong doesn't
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Which of the following represents a generational conflict between Meimei and her mother?
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Mrs. Jong is angry when Meimei appears to show disrespect toward her
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When Dr. King uses the word oppression, he means
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the white people's improper use of power over black people
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Which of the following is an example of determination?
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A young child tries again and again to put his own socks on
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The Mandarin hopes that pandemonium breaks out when Kwan-Si hears how his pig-shaped wall has been beaten by a stick-shaped wall. Which of the following most closely describes the meaning of the word pandemonium?
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Wild disorder
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Which of the following is most nearly the opposite in meaning to the word acclaimed?
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Disapproved
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Which of the following sentences contains a compound verb?
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The people carried stones and rebuilt the wall
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In which of the following is the verb used correctly?
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The apeaker in "The Road Not Taken" is walking down a road.
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The past participle of the irregular verb throw is _______.
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thrown
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Another way to refer to the countless wonders of nature is to say
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myriad wonders
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Which of the following is not a preposition?
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because
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Which of the following sentences contains a preposition?
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The noticed signs of llife all around them
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When Meimei gives a retort she
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makes a clever reply
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I remember once finding a fragment of a raccoon's jaw in an alder thicket. I sat down alongside the two children with me and encouraged them to find out who this was-with only three teeth still intact ina piece of the animal's maxilla to guide them-----------This passage os an example of an _______
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anecdote
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