Transcript Unit Two Test

Unit Two Test
The aspect of Abraham Lincoln
that Sandburg reflects
• in this essay is Lincoln’s many-sided
personality.
Lincoln was willing to “stick
[the Constitution] in a hole”
because
• he believed it was necessary to
violate the Constitution in order to
save the Union.
Sandburg portrays Lincoln
as
• a principled and
practical politician.
Sandburg describes Lincoln’s
admission of Nevada to the
Union as
• manipulation because he wants to
show that Lincoln used political
means to gain his desired end.
Given that Sandburg’s A
Lincoln Preface is biographical,
• a purpose for reading it might be to
learn about Abraham Lincoln’s life.
Sandburg’s biography of
Lincoln paints a picture of the
president
• as a complex man who lived in a time
of a grave crisis.
King’s intended effect in the
speech “I Have a Dream”
• is to challenge people to improve the
civil rights of all Americans
The speech “I Have a Dream”
reveals that King
• was a leader who was deeply
concerned about the future of black
people.
The ending of “I Have a
Dream” evokes a strong feeling
of
• hope and optimism.
The bus driver asks Rosa Parks
to give up her seat because
• she is in the front of the “black
section” and a white man doesn’t have
a seat to sit in.
Rosa Parks explains “what kind
of tired” she was
• so people will know she chose not to
give up her seat.
The phrase that best
describes the workers
mentioned in “I Hear America
Singing”
• is people working hard and being
satisfied by their work.
The theme, or message, that
Whitman conveys in “I Hear
America Singing”
• is America is the sum of different
contributions from many people.
The best description of Chief
Dan George’s idea of new Native
American warriors
• is the new warriors will have skills
that give them a sense of worth and
purpose.
The Mandarin’s daughter gives
advice from behind a screen
• because she does not want her
father to appear weak by openly
receiving advice from a woman.
The townspeople become weak
or ill and many
• die in response to rebuilding the wall
over and over again.
The immediate consequences
of the meeting between the
Mandarin and Kwan-Si
• is they agree to the solution to the
problem that the daughter suggests.
The daughter helps her father
and Kwan-Si see the solution
• to the problem by taking them
outside to see how kites and
the wind go together.
A reader can determine
the moral of a fable when
the moral
• is not stated directly in the fable by
examining the actions and choices of
the characters.
The element of fantasy that is
essential to
• “Old Man of the Temple” is the
narrator’s encounter with a ghost.
The narrator describes
• Doss as well-behaved and obedient.
When Doss speaks in a “thin,
piping” voice, it is
• because Doss has been transformed
into the old man.
This story is a fantasy
• because it contains elements that
could not really happen.
The most likely inference to be
drawn from the scene where
the old man
• sees his dead wife coming toward him
is that the
• old man’s spirit has called his wife’s
spirit to him.
The old man falls to the ground
in a heap when he sees his wife.
• From this we can infer that the old
man’s spirit
• leaves Doss’s body to join his wife’s
spirit.
The ghost of Krishna Battar
• has been knocking on the family’s door.
The most likely inference to be
drawn from the absence
• of knocking sounds at the temple
doors is that the old man’s spirit has
gone to the afterlife.
In “Perseus,” King Acrisius
confines his daughter
• to an underground house because he
wants to make certain she has no
children.
When Danaë and the infant
Perseus are adrift in the great
chest,
• it seems reasonable to assume they
will escape
• because the myth’s hero will likely
survive.
The true father of Perseus
• is the god Zeus.
As Perseus grows up, Danaë
allows him to become
• a fisherman on the little island because
• Acrisius cannot know where he is.
Polydectes invites Perseus to
his wedding celebration
• in order to take advantage of the
youth’s embarrassment.
Athena gave Perseus her
brilliantly polished shield
• because it would spare Perseus from
looking at Medusa and thus prevent
him from turning to stone.
Hermes and Athena didn’t give
Perseus all he needed to
attack Medusa
• because Perseus had to prove his
daring with the Gray Women first.
Perseus probably could not
have defeated Medusa without
supernatural assistance
• because he could not have found her,
looked at her, or pierced her scales.
In the world of mythology, a
sure way to draw the wrath of
the gods
• is to proclaim mortal
superiority over a god.
When Komunyakaa says the
boys were “Glistening with
sweat,”
• the image provides a
precise picture of the
players.
When Komunyakaa writes of the
players driving to the basket and
gliding “like a sparrow hawk,”
• he suggests the grace of flight in the
players’ moves. He might have
selected a sparrow hawk
• for this image rather than a dove
because sparrow hawks use quick,
aggressive moves and doves do not.
The first two lines of “The
Spearthrower” by Lillian
Morrison are “She walks
alone / to the edge of the
park.”
• The woman is alone because
women interested in athletics
have often been ignored.
In “The Spearthrower,” the line
“her quick laps” demonstrate
Morrison’s theme about
• women’s athletics. By using the word
“her,” it emphasizes that the
“runner” is a woman because most
readers might assume “runner” means
a man.
In “Shoulders,” the man is
carrying “sensitive cargo”
• so carefully crossing the street
because the cargo is his son.
In “Shoulders,” the line “His
ear fills up with breathing”
creates the sense
• of what it feels like to have a child
asleep on your shoulder.
Good Luck
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have fun.