Techniques and Structures Name: Angelina Alaya Thammavong Date: September 7, 2016 Graded Assignment
Unit 1 Test, Part 2: Understand Narrative Techniques and Structures
Read the question and then write a response based on the passage.
Total score: ____ of 40 points
(Score for Question 1: ___ of 10 points) 1. Read the passage. Then answer the question.
Secret in Slovakia
After 17 hours of travel, we had finally made it. It was 10 o’clock at night and we were in Slovakia,
standing in front of Great-Aunt Gertrude’s house, which stood at the end of a long, narrow street and
looked to be made of ancient stone. The wind came whistling through the trees that surrounded the house
in a way that reminded me of an eerie fairy tale that my grandmother told me when I was a child. In the
dark, with its front windows and double-arched doors, the house looked as if it were about to eat us. Two