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Gold Literature Test Three
Meimei’s mother believes it’s important for
her daughter to figure out the chess rules
herself to
compete successfully in America
Meimei tell her mother she doesn’t want to
play in the local tournament because “they
would have American rules” as a strategy
so her mother will let her play.
Meimei finds Mrs. Jong’s behavior in the
shops so embarrassing because Meimei
feels she is being paraded around
to make her mother look good.
The statement that represents the principal
cause of conflict between Meimei and Mrs.
Jong is “Meimei understands
___________________________”; Mrs.
Jong does not.
and wants to live by “American rules
The real significance of Meimei’s
success for her mother is that Meimei
achieves the success within the
American system
that her mother cannot.
The girl in “Checkouts” is unhappy at
the beginning of the story because
she has been forced to
move.
When the narrator of “Checkouts” says, “It is a
difficult work, suffering, and in its
own way, a kind of art,” she means the girl is
exaggerating her grief.
The girl likes to shop for groceries because she
can be
alone with her thoughts.
When the narrator says that it was not
safe for the girl’s parents to know her
inner thoughts, she means the girl felt that
her
parents could not understand her.
She wants to see the bag boy again
because his awkwardness __________
with her perfect house.
contrasts
The irony of the ending of “Checkouts” is
that they never get together and
she adjusts easily.
At the beginning of the poem, the
narrator of “Fifteen” finds a
wrecked but
running motorcycle.
The boy in “Fifteen” considers
riding off on the motorcycle.
The speaker in “Sympathy” __________
how the caged bird feels.
understands
In “Sympathy,” the bird beating its wings against
the bars of the cage is a symbol of
useless struggle.
The “dawn-bright lawn” in “Caged Bird”
symbolizes
a new beginning.
The speaker in “We never know how
high we are” believes that dreaming
enables us to
achieve greatness.
In “We never know how high we are,” the
skies symbolize
limitless possibility.
In In My Place, many white students reacted
to Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s first day on the
University of Georgia campus by forming
mobs and
staging a riot.
At the beginning of the story, Ulrich is portrayed
as angry and
hoping to find his enemy.
Suspecting that ________________ in the
forest prompted Ulrich to go into the woods on
the night of the story.
Georg would be poaching
The result of an internal conflict is that Ulrich
_________________ Georg when they meet.
does not shoot
Ulrich and Georg’s feelings toward each
other change during the story
from hatred to
friendship.
Ulrich _______________ when he
sees the figures coming down the hill.
cries out in joy
The first indication that the men may end
the feud is that Ulrich offers Georg
a drink of his wine.
The cause of conflict between the von Gradwitz
family and the Znaeym family is a land dispute,
and the effect of this conflict is
years of feuding between the families.
An example of external conflict is when
Ulrich threatens Georg.
When Michener first views Zaqir’s rugs he
notices right away that they are
strikingly beautiful.
Readers can infer from Zaqir’s repeated visits to
Michener’s hotel that Zaqir is
persistent.
Zaqir is willing to give Michener the rugs and
wait for payment. This reveals that Zaqir is
_________ and able to recognize an honest
person.
trusting
Michener has no checks and feels distressed that
he cannot accept Zaqir’s bargain price for four
rugs. His distress shows Zaqir’s abilities as a
salesperson.
Michener had been totally against buying rugs,
but Zaqir is _____________ in just a few days.
able to change his mind
The details from the story reveals Michener’s
trust in Zaqir because over the course of five
years, he continues to send payments for the
shipment of the rugs.
The reason for Zaqir’s delay in depositing the
check was that he was using the check
as an advertisement.
The rugs seem to hold special meaning for
Michener because they
remind him of Zaqir.
The speaker in Gladys Cardiff’s “Combing”
considers women’s relationships while
combing her daughter’s hair.
The best explanation of the meaning of
“Combing” is that through acts as simple as
combing hair, women are
bound to each other through time.
When Walker writes about how women led
“Across mined / Fields / Boobytrapped / Ditches” she is referring to the danger
of pursuing education
in the segregated South.
At the end of “Women,” the poet points out that
the women’s efforts toward education were all
the more remarkable because they _________
deeply without having it.
valued education
In “maggie and milly and mollie and may,” when
“molly was chased by a horrible thing,” the thing
she saw was probably a
crab.
When the speaker in “Astonishment” says “At
home, not in a nest,” she means why was I born
human and not a bird?
When the speaker in “Astonishment” considers
her life after “many epochs of absence,” she
means that she was not ______________
before her life.
here in all time
The point that the speaker of “Astonishment”
questions about her existence is its
randomness.
You can find a link to this powerpoint on
my lesson plan website.