Question

Poems of Passage: Booth, Collins, Lorde

Choose the best answer for questions 13–15.
13.What is the “first lesson” described in the poem by this name?
how to float on one's back
how to do the backstroke
how to tread water when one is tired
how to identify the stars out at sea

14.What does this speaker in "On Turning Ten" believe is “the beginning of sadness”?
putting away his bicycle for the winter
saying good-bye to old friends in the neighborhood
learning that someone in his family is ill
turning ten years old

Answer 1

15. The speaker in the poem “Hanging Fire” is ____
a fourteen-year-old African American girl.
a ten-year-old white boy.
an immigrant girl who is homeless.
the mother of a fourteen year old in trouble.

Answer 2

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
16. Henry Reed inspires the audience at the graduation ceremony to ____.
ask the invited white speakers to leave
stand up and shout down the invited speakers
sing the Negro National Anthem
walk out of the auditorium in silent protest

Answer 3

Choose the word or phrase that best matches the word in italics for questions 17–18.
17. They're killing us stealthily.

(1 point)out in the open
guiltlessly
by majority rule
slowly and deliberately in secret

18. The ugliness they left was palpable.
(1 point)able to be felt
strange
hurtful
imagined

"My Forbidden Face"
19. The fundamentalist Muslims who took power in Afghanistan at the time of the essay were known as ____
the Taliban.
the Sharia.
the Afghani freedom fighters.
the Revolutionary Guard.

Answer 4

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