Unit One

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Unit One
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In The Cat Who Thought She Was a Dog, the word
or phrase that best describes the economic
condition of the Skiba family is 

• poor.

3
Jan Skibas refusal in The Cat Who Thought She
Was a Dog to let his dog and cat go hungry shows
that he 

• loves the animals.

4
The best word to describe the relationship
between Burek the dog and Kot the cat in The Cat
Who Thought She Was a Dog is 

• close.

5
In The Cat Who Thought She Was a Dog, the dog
acts like a cat and the cat acts like a dog
because neither has ever ________________or any
other animals, so each believes it is like the
other. 

• seen its reflection

6
In The Cat Who Thought She Was a Dog, the
mirror causes an uproar in the Skiba family
because they _______________________ before and
do not like what they see now. 

• never saw themselves clearly

7
After the mirror arrives in The Cat Who Thought
She Was a Dog, the Skiba family feels its
poverty for the first time because their
_______________ with their appearances makes them
wish they could afford to buy cosmetics to
improve them. 

• dissatisfaction

8
In The Cat Who Thought She Was a Dog, the
mirror causes the dog and the cat to turn on each
other and 

• fight for the first time.

9
The best summary for the moral of The Cat Who
Thought She Was a Dog is that the true worth of
people lies not in their appearance but in
their 

• generosity of spirit.

10
In Two Kinds the narrators mother takes her to
the Mission district to get her hair curled in
order to make her look like

• Shirley Temple.

11
In Two Kinds, the mothers belief that you
could be anything you wanted to be in America is
an 

• unrealistic expectation about America.

12
At first, Jing-mei, in Two Kinds is
enthusiastic about her mothers ambitions for her
because she hopes that she will win 

• approval from her parents.

13
In Two Kinds, the mothers judgment of the
Chinese girls piano performance on The Ed
Sullivan Show is Play note right, but doesnt
sound good! No singing sound. By this the mother
means that the girls playing is perfect but 

• shows no feeling for the music.

14
In Two Kinds, the phrase that best describes
Jing-meis relationship with her cousin
Waverly is 

• jealous and competitive.

15
In Two Kinds, Jing-mei approaches her
performance at the talent show with 

• confidence.

16
Jing-meis horrible performance at the talent
show in Two Kinds is the first of many times
that she 

• disappoints her mother.

17
In Two Kinds, the mothers offer to give
Jing-mei the piano for her thirtieth birthday
shows that the mother has finally gotten over her
bitterness and disappointment and wants to
___________________ toward her daughter. 

• make a kind gesture

18
The theme, or central idea, of Two Kinds can be
stated as an important part of growing up is
discovering ones own _______________, even if
they conflict with the wishes of ones
parents. 

• goals and desires

19
The title of Whitmans poem Song of Myself
makes it likely that the speaker is 

• Whitman.

20
In Im Nobody Dickinson seems to regard fame
as 

• a bad thing.

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In Im Nobody Dickinson compares being famous
to acting 

• like a frog.

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In Me, the way the speaker is most like a tree
is that both trees and the speaker are 

• individual and unique.

23
The word that best summarizes Haleys memories of
Grandma in My Furthest-Back Person is 

• warm.

24
At the beginning of My Furthest-Back Person,
Haley is visiting the National Archives to do
research about 

• his family roots.

25
In My Furthest-Back Person, Haleys thoughts on
returning from assignment in London show that his
curiosity about his ____________________ is
becoming his major concern. 

• African family roots

26
In My Furthest-Back Person, Haley pays a visit
to Dr. Jan Vansina in order to seek expert
information on 

• African dialects.

27
In My Furthest-Back Person, the most unusual
requirement for the trip upriver is the 

• four musicians.

28
The villagers of Juffure swarm around Haley in
My Furthest-Back Person because they have never
seen an ________________________ before. 

• American black person

29
According to My Furthest-Back Person, the Kinte
clan originated in

• Old Mali. 

30
The opening setting of The Third Level is a 

• railroad terminal.

31
Given what you know about Charleys situation in
The Third Level, his friends opinion that his
stamp collecting is a temporary refuge from
reality shows that they 

• view his hobby negatively.

32
In The Third Level, Charley states that Grand
Central Station is a place where it is 

• easy to get lost.

33
The presence of gaslights in The Third Level is
the first major clue that Charleys wrong turn
has taken him 

• into the past.

34
In The Third Level, the detail that first
reveals the exact time frame of the third level
is the 

• newspaper headline.

35
In The Third Level, by stressing how far in the
future World Wars I and II were from that
long-ago summer in Galesburg, Illinois, Charley
shows that the towns chief attraction for him is
its 

• peacefulness.

36
In The Third Level, Charleys decision to
obtain two hundred dollars in old-style currency
shows that he intends to 

• return to Galesburg.

37
As explained by Charley in The Third Level, a
first-day cover is a newly issued stamp mailed to
oneself to prove the 

• date of issue by the postmark.

38
In The Third Level, the letter from Galesburg
is written by Charleys 

• psychiatrist.

39
The main idea of The Third Level is people
often 

• yearn for a simpler, bygone era.

40
The first symptom of Schatzs illness that is
revealed in A Days Wait is 

• shivering.

41
In A Days Wait, Schatzs resists his fathers
request that 

• he go to bed.

42
In A Days Wait, after the doctor takes
Schatzs temperature, he discovers that it is 

• 102.

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In A Days Wait, the doctors reaction to
Schatzs condition can best be described as 

• mildly concerned.

44
In A Days Wait, believing that he is dying,
Schatz thinks it is probably difficult for his
father to be around him so Schatz tells his
father that he neednt stay in the room 

• if its going to bother you.

45
In A Days Wait, the fact that the father
leaves Schatz to go out hunting shows that the
father doesnt think his sons condition is
very 

• serious.

46
When his father returns from the hunt and sits
down to read a story to Schatz in A Days Wait,
the boys internal conflict is revealed to the
reader when Schatz asks 

• when he is going to die.

47
In A Days Wait, the father compares the
difference between temperature scales to the
difference between

• miles and kilometers.

48
In A Days Wait, Schatz cries easily over
unimportant things the day after he learns that
he will not die because a great ______________
has been lifted from him. 

• emotional weight

49
Growing up, Bill Cosby and his friends in Was
Tarzan a Three-Bandage Man? mainly admired 

• athletes.

50
In Was Tarzan a Three-Bandage Man?, Cosby and
his friends show their admiration for their
heroes by 

• imitating them.

51
In Was Tarzan a Three-Bandage Man?, when
Cosbys mother tells him to take off that bandage
right now or Ill have your father move you up
to stitches, the humor of her statement comes
from 

• exaggeration.

52
In Oranges, the boy offers to pay for a
ten-cent candy with 

• two oranges.

53
In Oranges, when the boy makes his offer of
payment for the candy bar, the saleslady reacts 

• With understanding.

54
The word critical best describes Emily
Dickinsons attitude toward ____ in Im
Nobody. 

• fame

55
In Me, when Walter de la Mare writes that the
self is Like a flower, / For its hour, he is
saying that a human self is

• not permanent.

56
In The Third Level, the hobby that leads
Charley to believe that time travel is really
possible is  

• stamp collecting.

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Good Luck!

• Study Hard!