Question

Which of the following statements is NOT true about genres and storytelling? Question 1 options:

A limitation of the short story genre is that it should include only a few characters.

Any story can be shared effectively in any genre.

A storyteller chooses a genre carefully in order to maximize the story's impact on the audience.

Short stories and memoirs are examples of genres.

Question 2: Which of the following is NOT true about a memoir?

Question 2 options:

People enjoy reading memoirs because memoirs are personal in content, style, and tone.

Memoirs usually combine fiction and nonfiction.

A memoir tells about an important aspect of a real person's life.

The author is the main character of the memoir.

Question 3: What is the impact of first-person narration on narrative nonfiction?

Question 3 options:

It provides greater accuracy about historical events.

It helps the reader understand the thoughts and feelings of a real-life individual.

It clarifies the difference between reality and fantasy.

It describes people, places, and events in more detail than third-person narration.

Question 4: "First Love" is a memoir. Another memoir that we read in class is

Question 4 options:

"Sonnet 55"

"About Russell"

"The Bet"

"American Progress"

Question 5: Using your understanding of the story "First Love" and context clues, choose another way to say this sentence from the story: "I watched his every move, taking him in gluttonously."

Question 5 options:

She watched him casually.

She looked everywhere but at him.

She analyzed him like a detective.

She ate him up with her eyes.

Question 6: Which of the following is true about a memoir?

Question 6 options:

It is written in first-person point of view.

It is a short fictional narrative.

It is biographical; the writer writes about someone else's experiences.

It usually covers a person's entire life story from birth until death.

Question 7: According to the author in "First Love," what's the inexorable truth about parents?

Question 7 options:

They can carry on with their lives while their teenagers suffer broken hearts.

Fathers are full of unexpected surprises.

They put the needs of their teenagers ahead of everything else.

They don't really care how their children feel at all.

Question 8: Why did the author of "First Love" and her family leave for Puerto Rico?

Question 8 options:

Her father was in the Navy and was deployed.

Her father surprised them with a family vacation.

She was being punished for having a boyfriend.

Her grandmother in Puerto Rico had become sick.

Question 9: What is the theme of "First Love"?

Question 9 options:

In order to find love, a person must stand out from the crowd.

If you find out what you're not good at, you can turn to the things you are good at.

People will take advantage of someone who appears too innocent.

Early disappointment can sow the seeds of later understanding.

Answer 1

Which of the following statements is NOT true about genres and storytelling? Question 1 options:

Any story can be shared effectively in any genre.

Question 2: Which of the following is NOT true about a memoir?

Memoirs usually combine fiction and nonfiction

Question 3: What is the impact of first-person narration on narrative nonfiction?

Question 3 options:

It helps the reader understand the thoughts and feelings of a real-life individual.

Question 4: "First Love" is a memoir. Another memoir that we read in class is

"About Russell"

Question 5: Using your understanding of the story "First Love" and context clues, choose another way to say this sentence from the story: "I watched his every move, taking him in gluttonously."

She ate him up with her eyes.

Question 6: Which of the following is true about a memoir?

It is written in first-person point of view.

Question 7: According to the author in "First Love," what's the inexorable truth about parents?

They don't really care how their children feel at all.

Question 8: Why did the author of "First Love" and her family leave for Puerto Rico?

Question 8 options:

Her father was in the Navy and was deployed.

Question 9: What is the theme of "First Love"?

Question 9 options:

Early disappointment can sow the seeds of later understanding.

Answer 2

1) Answer: Any story can be shared effectively in any genre.

Explanation: The choice of genre is an essential factor in effectively sharing a story. The story of a whole life which one would tell in a memoir can't be put into a short story; expanding a short story into a novel by adding a large amount of details and events can easily dilute the short story's strength or message.

2) Answer: Memoirs usually combine fiction and nonfiction.

Explanation: Despite being written in a more literary, fiction-like fashion than a biography, a memoir tells only real events of a person's life.

3) Answer: It helps the reader understand the thoughts and feelings of a real-life individual.

Step-by-step explanation: First-person narration makes it easier for readers to put themselves in the shoes of the protagonist than third-person narration. In that way, readers are more likely to understand the motives behind the protagonist's actions, words and decisions.

(Question 4 can only be answered by people who attended the classes.)

5) Answer: She ate him up with her eyes.

Step-by-step explanation: We can obviously see from the context that the word "gluttonously" is there to imbue the action of watching with a sensuous meaning.

6) Answer: It is written in first-person point of view.

Step-by-step explanation: A memoir is never fictional. It is auto-biographical (you can't write someone else's memoir) and usually doesn't cover the whole of the author's life, but specific, really meaningful phases or events.

7) Answer: They can carry on with their lives while their teenagers suffer broken hearts.

Explanation: The protagonist's parents are completely unaffected as they continue to predictably move to Puerto Rico and back, and won't consider her petitions to stay in spite of her crying.

8) Answer: Her father was in the Navy and was deployed.

Explanation: As stated clearly in the text, "Father announced at the breakfast table that he was leaving on a six month tour of Europe with the Navy in a few weeks and, that at the end of the school year my mother, my brother, and I would be sent to Puerto Rico (...)"

9) Answer: Early disappointment can sow the seeds of later understanding.

Step-by-step explanation: The two last paragraphs of the text describe how the protagonist slowly came to realize that being kissed by a man did not necessary imply requited love.