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 e...
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.
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