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Short Story Final
Con il contributo di: Lofgren
  • 1. In "Seventh Grade", Victor and his friend Michael are both interested in:
A) traveling
B) learning French
C) attracting girls
D) picking grapes
  • 2. During lunch, Victor is thinking mainly about:
A) Mr. Bueller
B) math problems
C) the food
D) Teresa
  • 3. Victor pretend that he already knows some French because he wants to:
A) impress Teresa
B) get out of French class
C) impress Mr. Bueller
D) get some laughs
  • 4. Which word best describes Mr. Bueller?
A) sympathetic
B) unfair
C) absent minded
D) strict
  • 5. What is the setting of the story "Seventh Grade"?
A) a catechism class one afternoon
B) a junior high on the first day of school
C) near Teresa's locker after school one day
D) a history class on the last day of school
  • 6. In the story, Victor's friend Michael scowls all the time because:
A) thinks scowling will make girls notice him
B) doesn't want to be in school that day
C) is having an argument with Victor
D) is disappointed with his class schedule
  • 7. Victor decides to take French for all the following reasons EXCEPT:
A) he wants to be in the same class as Teresa
B) he would like to go to France someday
C) has heard the teacher is a good guy
D) he already knows Spanish and English
  • 8. What problem does Victor have in French class?
A) he embarrasses himself by pretending to know French
B) Mr. Bueller gets angry when Victor forgets his book
C) Mr. Bueller won't let him sit near the girl that he likes
D) he makes Teresa angry by talking to her during class
  • 9. What is the theme of "Seventh Grade"?
A) being yourself
B) the boredom of youth
C) the joy of learning
D) finding one's true love
  • 10. In the story, "Thank You, M'am," what does Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones want to teach Roger in the short time they are together?
A) that blue suede shoes are not important
B) to respect and trust other people
C) that stealing can lead to jail
D) to be careful who he steals from
  • 11. At the end, what surprise does Roger get from Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones just before he leaves?
A) ten dollars to buy shoes
B) a chance to get away
C) a kick in the seat of his pants
D) an invitation to stay for dinner
  • 12. Who said this? Match the quote with the character who said it. "........because shoes come by devilish like that will burn your feet."
A) Teresa
B) Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones
C) Roger
D) Langston Hughes
  • 13. At the beginning of "Thank You, M'am" Roger runs up behind Mrs. Jones because he wants to:
A) hurt her
B) help her
C) steal from her
D) scare her
  • 14. In her first encounter with the boy, you can tell that Mrs. Jones is very:
A) nervous
B) strong
C) mean
D) young
  • 15. Mrs. Jones takes Roger to her home because she wants to:
A) help him
B) learn about his family
C) give him a reward
D) punish him
  • 16. Roger tries to take Mrs. Jones' pocketbook because he:
A) is hungry and has no money for food
B) knows that she carries a lot of money with her
C) needs money to support his family
D) wants to buy a pair of blue suede shoes
  • 17. In "Amigo Brothers," Antonio and Felix think of themselves as brothers because they:
A) are very close friends
B) come from the same neighborhood
C) look alike
D) have similar boxing styles
  • 18. Antonio and Felix decide to stay apart before the match because they want to:
A) work out with stronger partners
B) end their friendship
C) don't like the same movies anymore
D) concentrate on winning
  • 19. Antonio and Felix continue to fight after final bell because:
A) only a knockout will satisfy them
B) each wants the other to give up
C) they are completely absorbed in the fight
D) they are angry with each other
  • 20. In what way are Antonio and Felix NOT alike in the story:
A) their competitiveness
B) the way they train
C) the way they feel about boxing
D) their style of boxing
  • 21. Which of the following passages from "Amigo Brothers" is an example of a metaphor?
A) "Felix, grunting like a bull, threw wild punches..."
B) "His left hand was like a piston, pumping jabs..."
C) "his face being pounded into raw wet hamburger"
D) "only the frenzied screaming of those along ringside..."
  • 22. In the story the source of conflict source both Antonio and Felix is:
A) finding separate places to train
B) training without each other
C) deciding who has the most fan support
D) competing against each other for the title
  • 23. After the two friends find out they will be fighting each other, they decide to treat each other like:
A) brothers
B) strangers
C) enemies
D) sparring partners
  • 24. Felix and Antonio decide to not see each other before the fight because they want to:
A) keep their strategies a secret
B) work with different trainers
C) break off their friendship
D) concentrate on the fight
  • 25. In the end, Felix and Antonio decide to:
A) give up boxing
B) remain true friends
C) apologize to each other
D) have a rematch
  • 26. The author of "It's All in How You Say It" was unhappy to read in a textbook that "sleet-schus" or dried fish, tasted like shoe-leather mainly because she thought:
A) her Indian culture was being insulted
B) the textbook should have been written by an American Indian
C) the author had never tasted it
D) a textbook was no place to discuss food
  • 27. In "It's All in How You Say It" the author suggests that white people's civilization brought the Indian peoples;
A) more arts and crafts
B) great economic benefit
C) an increase in health problems
D) an improved standard of living
  • 28. What is the major conflict in "It's All in How You Say It"?
A) The author is saddened because white people misunderstand the Indian
B) The author wants to tear up her textbooks
C) The author hates her culture and wants to adopt the white people's ways
D) The author hates Indian food
  • 29. For what main purpose has the author written "The Forest Cries"?
A) to convince Native Americans to reject non-Native ways
B) to share family and tribal history with her offspring
C) to protest against the mistreatment of Native peoples
D) to help non-Natives understand the Ojibway people
  • 30. From whose point of view is "The Forest Cries" written?
A) a grandmother looking back on her family's past
B) a fictional woman recounting tales about her life
C) a young woman describing events as they are happening
D) a grandchild writing to her elderly grandmother
  • 31. In "The Forest Cries," when the author lived in Minneapolis during World War II, she:
A) lived alone
B) was a teacher
C) ran a rooming house
D) worked in a defense plant
  • 32. In "The Forest Cries," the author states that Indian migration to urban areas during the war years:
A) helped create a brotherhood among the Ojibway
B) established a wealthy Ojibway society
C) caused fighting among the Ojibway
D) made the Ojibway want to return to the reservations
  • 33. "The Forest Cries" and "It's All in How You Say It" are examples of what type of writing?
A) narrative
B) informative
C) creative
D) persuasive
  • 34. An example of Words of the Wiser is:
A) when Felix and Antonio meet to fight
B) when Mrs. Jones tells Roger, "shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet"
C) when the native american girl reads about the 'sleet-schus'
D) when Victor tells Teresa he can speak french
  • 35. An example of a Tough Question would be:
A) when Felix and Antonio question how they should approach their fight
B) when the grandmother in "The Forest Cries" decides to get a job
C) when Roger askes Mrs. Jones if he should run out and get some milk
D) when Victor wonders if he should scowl like Michael
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