Question

Questions 1–3 correspond to "It Was Not My Finest Hour."
1. The author, Linda Meyers Donelson, has organized her letter around the
A: difficulties and worries she faces.
B: description of each of her students.
C: things she wants to accomplish.
D: places where she'd like to go.

Answer 1

2. If you didn't understand the sentence about draftees from the author's high school class, what steps would you take to clarify?
A: Look up the words draft and draftee in a dictionary.
B: Ask a parent or other adult about the draft during the Vietnam War.
C: Reread the paragraph.
D: all of the above

3. Which of the following excerpts from "It Was Not My Finest Hour" contains figurative language?
A: "I'm twenty-one years old, and this is the first time someone close to me has died."
B: "I don't like to go in the kitchen after dark because the wingspanroaches are as big as mice!"
C: "He offered to teach me some pigeon English (which is spoken in West Cameroon)."
D: "The fifteen of us will never forget each other."

4. When you skim and scan a selection, you
A: read quickly to get the main idea of a text.
B: take detailed notes as you read.
C: skip over the most important parts.
D: predict what you think will happen, and then read to confirm your ideas.

5. Which of the following passages from “It Was Not My Finest Hour” includes the best example of imagery that invites readers to visualize?
A: I’m making Valentines as the sun goes down. I’ve drawn a picture of myself in a cannibal’s stewpot, waving an American flag. I’m working by candlelight.
B: It’s four months since I began teaching with almost no experience. Thankfully, I’m not struggling with classroom discipline.
C: I’m teaching some English classes now at the forestry school . . . I was sent here because the President of the country comes from this area, but they don’t really need another English teacher.
D: For the Easter holiday, we’re attending a conference in West Cameroon, where there are lots of Peace Corps Volunteers. The hotel in Buea serves spumoni ice cream.

6. Read the following predictions about “It Was Not My Finest Hour.” Which prediction is not supported by confirmed by the text?
A: Linda has written a letter to her mother.
B: Linda knows French as well as English words.
C: Linda is not currently living in the United States.
D: Linda wishes that she had never accepted the teaching job.

Answer 2

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