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