1. In Mending Wall, which line from the poem most strongly
supports the idea that some people don’t consider the implications of what they’ve been taught?
a) “We keep the wall between us as we go.
b) “To each the boulders that have fallen to each.”
c) “He is all pine and I am apple-orchard.”
d) “He will not go beyond his father’s saying.”
2. In "The Grapes of Wrath", Mae wants the man to buy a sandwich and not treat the diner as a grocery store.
A) True
B)False
3. In Mending Wall, who believes fences are important?
a) The neighbor
b) The narrator
c) Neither of them believes fences are important
d) Both the narrator and the neighbor believe fences are important.
4. In Mending Wall, with which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree?
a) Good fences make good neighbors.
b) Some people don’t consider the implications of what they’ve been taught.
c) Walls must be well-constructed in order to work.
d) It’s important to live next door to people from a similar background.
5. In The Grapes of Wrath, which of the following inferences is best supported by the following passage (paragraphs 5-6)?
“We’re hungry,” the man said.
“Whyn’t you buy a san’widge? We got nice san’widges, hamburgs.”
a) Mae is very proud of the sandwiches and hamburgers that they make.
b) The restaurant is probably not a high-class establishment.
c) Mae thinks that she can pull a fast one on the man.
d) The diner does not have any bread in the kitchen.
6. The author's memory of the events from his childhood in "Living to Tell the Tale" are triggered by seeing the mother and sister of the thief bringing flowers to the grave.
A)True
B)False
7. What is most likely the author’s intent in the following passage (paragraph 4) of Living to Tell the Tale?
When we turned the corner, the dust burned my feet through the weave of my sandals. The feeling of being forsaken became unbearable. Then I saw myself and I saw my mother, just as I saw, when I was a boy, the mother and sister of the thief whom Maria Consuegra had killed with a single shot one week earlier, when he tried to break into her house.
a) To show that the narrator and his mother have family in the small town that they have been isolated from.
b) To show the difference between the narrator’s and the thief’s mothers through a comparison of character.
c) To describe how the town they are traveling in is as deserted as it was in the narrator’s memories.
d) To show the narrator making the connection that he and his mother are abandoned like the thief’s family.
8. In Living to Tell the Tale, which statement from the excerpt most strongly
shows that the narrator feels empathy toward the thief?
a) “The feeling of being forsaken became unbearable.”
b) “My mother did not understand me.”
c) “‘I feel as if I were the thief,’ I said.”
d) “Years later, recalling that trip with her, I confirmed that she did remember the tragedy but would have given her soul to forget it.”
9. In Living to Tell the Tale, which sentence from paragraph 7 most strongly
supports the narrator making the connection that he and his mother are abandoned like the thief’s family?
a) “The town dignitaries came to Maria Consuegra’s house to offer her their condolences for having killed the thief.”
b) “I went that night with Papalelo, and we found her sitting in an armchair from Manila that looked like an enormous wicker peacock, surrounded by the fervor of her friends who listened to the story she had repeated a thousand times.”
c) “Everyone agreed with her that she had fired out of sheer fright.”
d) “Maria Consuegra, it seemed, had not been conscious of this heart-breaking lament until my grandfather asked her the question.”
10. In The Grapes of Wrath, which of the following inferences about the boys is best supported by the text?
a) The boys would prefer it if the man bought them hamburgers instead of just the loaf of bread.
b) The boys are prepared to swipe some candy into their overall pockets when Mae is not looking, if they have to
c) The candy means more to the boys than the bread, because getting it would be a rare time they had something that met more than their basic needs.
d) The only reason that the man brought the boys into the store was that so they could get some candy.