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English 11 Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." The Negro has many pent up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them. How does King conclude this claim? Ans: by encouraging white leaders to allow nonviolent protests Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation. Why does the author include these sentences? Ans: to provide a contrast to his group's nonviolent efforts Read the following excerpt from Leslie Marmon Silko's story "The Man to Send Rain Clouds." They turned off the highway onto the sandy pueblo road. Not long after they passed the store and post office they saw Father Paul's car coming toward them. When he recognized their faces he slowed his car and waved for them to stop. The young priest rolled down the car window. "Did you find old Teofilo?" he asked loudly. Leon stopped the truck. "Good morning, Father. We were just out to the sheep camp. Everything is O.K. now." "Thank God for that. Teofilo is a very old man. You really shouldn't allow him to stay at the sheep camp alone." "No, he won't do that any more now." What does this dialogue reveal about the priest's standing within the community? Ans: He is considered to be an outsider. Read this stanza from Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California." Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage? In this stanza, the speaker wishes Ans: America could be like it was when Whitman was alive. Read the following scene from Trifles. COUNTY ATTORNEY (preoccupied). Is there a cat? (Mrs. Hale glances in a quick covert way at Mrs. Peters.) MRS. PETERS. Well, not now. They're superstitious, you know. They leave. COUNTY ATTORNEY (to Sheriff Peters, continuing an interrupted conversation.) No sign at all of anyone having come from the outside. Their own rope. Now let's go up again and go over it piece by piece. (They start upstairs.) It would have to have been someone who knew just the— (Mrs. Peters sits down. The two women sit there not looking at one another, but as if peering into something and at the same time holding back. When they talk now, it is the manner of feeling their way over strange ground, as if afraid of what they are saying, but as if they cannot help saying it.) How would an audio recording most likely convey the characters' actions during this scene? Ans: with a change in each character's tone of voice Which statement best compares the structure of "Harlem" and "The Weary Blues"? Ans: "Harlem" is short and curious, while "The Weary Blues" is longer and unhappy. Read the excerpt from part 5 of Zeitoun. For many of his clients, it took time for the insurance money to come through, for the FEMA money to appear, for any number of complications to work themselves out. But now things are moving. The city is rising again. Since Hurricane Katrina, Zeitoun A. Painting Contractor LLC has restored 114 houses to their former states, or improved versions thereof. What is the meaning of the excerpt? Ans: Zeitoun's business is thriving with the rebuilding of New Orleans. Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. One night, after what felt like a googolplex inventions, I went to Dad's closet. We used to Greco-Roman wrestle on the floor in there, and tell hilarious jokes, and once we hung a pendulum from the ceiling and put a circle of dominoes on the floor to prove that the earth rotated. How does the narration affect Oskar's credibility in this excerpt? Ans: His fond recollections emphasize his genuine sincerity. Read the excerpt from "First Generation" of Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia. She considers the vagaries of sports, the happenstance of El Líder, a star pitcher in his youth, narrowly missing a baseball career in America. His wicked curveball attracted the major league scouts, and the Washington Senators were interested in signing him but changed their minds. Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains. Which best explains how Garcia's word choice helps establish her voice in the excerpt? Ans: Garcia uses short, forceful words to assert a pessimistic opinion on fate. How does the author's use of a one-act climactic structure affect the emotional impact of part two of King Arthur's Socks: A Comedy in One Act? Ans: Readers are swept into the swift action as it hastens to its climax. Read the excerpt from "First Generation" of Dreaming in Cuban. He stops at the ocean's edge, smiles almost shyly, as if he fears disturbing her, and stretches out a colossal hand. His blue eyes are like lasers in the night. The beams bounce off his fingernails, five hard blue shields. They scan the beach, illuminating shells and sleeping gulls, then focus on her. The porch turns blue, ultraviolet. Her hands, too, are blue. Celia squints through the light, which dulls her eyesight and blurs the palms on the shore. Which of the following is an example of a hyperbole? Ans: "and stretches out a colossal hand" Which excerpt from "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" contains an example of a simile? Ans: After a few minutes there was a guffawing peal of thunder from behind and fantastic raindrops, like tin-can tops, crashed over the rear of Mr. Shiftlet's car. Read this excerpt from "Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk." I wonder, when I look at the bombed out peasant hamlets, the orphans begging and stealing on the streets of Saigon and the women and children with napalm burns lying on the hospital cots, whether the United States or any nation has the right to inflict this suffering and degradation on another people for its own ends. How do the allusions in this excerpt reinforce the meaning of the passage? Ans: The allusions recall specific locations and horrors of the Vietnam conflict. Maya has earned high grades in honors algebra and is writing a letter to her principal asking to take other honors classes. Read her thesis statement, then answer the question. Based on my prior grades, participating in honors classes would help me. Which is the best revision of Maya's thesis statement? Ans: Based on my grades in honors algebra, I believe I would do well in other honors classes. Why does Mary seem frightened of Arthur and say that he always makes her think of her father in King Arthur's Socks: A Comedy in One Act? Ans: He is a proper man governed by strict ethics. Read the excerpt from "Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry." I do not believe we should have to leave out the crucial elements of our language and culture to contribute to American literature, but, unfortunately, this is a conclusion I am forced to reach. I have been writing for a quarter century, and have been a published author for eighteen years. As a writer, I was part of the Chicano Movement which created a new literature in this country. Which best describes how Anaya effectively uses rhetoric in the excerpt to convince readers that his conclusion is justified? Ans: Anaya establishes his credibility as a published Chicano author by discussing his career experience. What is the advantage of reading from three different perspectives in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban? Ans: The different perspectives underscore the larger idea that immigrants or exiles must shed their native traditions. Read the paragraph. Teaching the rambunctious group of canines at the obedience school was a great deal of work, but each instructor took a respite once the dogs were placed in their individual kennels. Which word is closest in meaning to the underlined word? Ans: break Read the excerpt from Rudolfo Anaya's essay "Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry." Tortillas and poetry. They go hand in hand. Books nourish the spirit, bread nourishes our bodies. Our distinct cultures nourish each one of us, and as we know more and more about the art and literature of the different cultures, we become freer and freer. . . . I don't know anyone who doesn't like to sample different ethnic foods, the breads of many many groups; just as many of us enjoy sampling books from different areas of the world. I travel to foreign countries, and I know more about myself as I learn more about my fellow human beings. Censorship imposes itself in my path of knowledge, and that activity can be justified by no one. Which phrase from the excerpt best helps the reader identify the author's purpose? Ans: "we know more and more about the art and literature of the different cultures" Which excerpt from "First Generation" of Dreaming in Cuban is the best example of magic realism? Ans: We camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women's voices. Read the excerpt from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. Based on this excerpt, what inference can be made about the Buchanans? Ans: The image of luxury and elegance that they project is unstable like the wind blowing through the room. Read this excerpt from part 5 of Zeitoun. Progress is being made. It's so slow sometimes, so terribly so sometimes, but progress is being made. We have removed the rot, we are strengthening the foundations. There is much work to do, and we all know what needs to be done. We can only do the work, he tells Kathy, and his children, and his crew, his friends, anyone he sees. So let us get up early and stay late, and, brick by brick and block by block, let us get that work done. Which word best describes the tone of this excerpt? Ans: supportive Which sentence best describes George Bergeron's characterization in "Harrison Bergeron"? Ans: He is a dynamic character, because he attempts to remove his handicap bag. Use the following definitions to answer the question. evade: 1. (verb) to cleverly escape somebody or something, to avoid invade: 1. (verb) to enter by force, to enter Which sentence contains correct word usage? Ans: Corn leaf aphids