Unit One

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.

Jan Skiba’s refusal in “The Cat Who Thought She Was a Dog” to let his dog and cat go

hungry shows that he 

• loves the animals.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

In “Two Kinds” the narrator’s mother takes her to the Mission district to get her hair curled in

order to make her look like

• Shirley Temple.

In “Two Kinds,” the mother’s belief that “you could be anything you wanted to be in

America” is an 

• unrealistic expectation about America.

At first, Jing-mei, in “Two Kinds” is enthusiastic about her mother’s ambitions for

her because she hopes that she will win 

• approval from her parents.

In “Two Kinds,” the mother’s judgment of the Chinese girl’s piano performance on The Ed Sullivan Show is “Play note right,

but doesn’t sound good! No singing sound.” By this the mother means that

the girl’s playing is perfect but 

• shows no feeling for the music.

In “Two Kinds,” the phrase that best describes Jing-mei’s relationship with her cousin

Waverly is 

• jealous and competitive.

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

 

• confidence.

Jing-mei’s horrible performance at the talent show in “Two Kinds” is the first of many times that she 

• disappoints her mother.

In “Two Kinds,” the mother’s 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

The theme, or central idea, of “Two Kinds” can be stated as “an important part of growing up is discovering one’s own _______________, even if they conflict with the wishes of one’s

parents.” 

• goals and desires

The title of Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” makes it likely that the speaker is

 

• Whitman.

In “I’m Nobody” Dickinson seems to regard fame as

 

• a bad thing.

In “I’m Nobody” Dickinson compares being famous to acting

 

• like a frog.

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

 

• individual and unique.

The word that best summarizes Haley’s memories of Grandma in “My Furthest-Back

Person” is 

• “warm”.

At the beginning of “My Furthest-Back Person,” Haley is visiting the National Archives

to do research about 

• his family roots.

In “My Furthest-Back Person,” Haley’s thoughts on returning from assignment in London show that his curiosity about his

____________________ is becoming his major concern.

 

• African family roots

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

• African dialects.

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

 

• four musicians.

The villagers of Juffure swarm around Haley in “My Furthest-Back Person” because they have

never seen an ________________________ before.

 

• American black person

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

• Old Mali. 

The opening setting of “The Third Level” is a 

• railroad terminal.

Given what you know about Charley’s 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.

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

 

• easy to get lost.

The presence of gaslights in “The Third Level” is the first major clue that Charley’s wrong turn has taken him 

• into the past.

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

 

• newspaper headline.

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 town’s chief attraction for him is its 

• peacefulness.

In “The Third Level,” Charley’s decision to obtain two hundred dollars in old-style

currency shows that he intends to 

• return to Galesburg.

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.

In “The Third Level,” the letter from Galesburg is written by Charley’s

 

• psychiatrist.

The main idea of “The Third Level” is people often 

• yearn for a simpler, bygone era.

The first symptom of Schatz’s illness that is revealed in “A Day’s Wait” is

 

• shivering.

In “A Day’s Wait,” Schatz’s resists his father’s request that 

• he go to bed.

In “A Day’s Wait,” after the doctor takes Schatz’s temperature, he discovers that it is

 

• 102°.

In “A Day’s Wait,” the doctor’s reaction to Schatz’s condition can best be described as

 

• mildly concerned.

In “A Day’s 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 needn’t stay in the room 

• “if it’s going to bother you”.

In “A Day’s Wait,” the fact that the father leaves Schatz to go out hunting shows that the father doesn’t think his son’s condition is very

 

• serious.

When his father returns from the hunt and sits down to read a story to Schatz in “A Day’s

Wait,” the boy’s internal conflict is revealed to the reader when Schatz asks

 

• when he is going to die.

In “A Day’s Wait,” the father compares the difference between temperature scales to the difference between

• miles and kilometers.

In “A Day’s 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

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

 

• athletes.

In “Was Tarzan a Three-Bandage Man?,” Cosby and his friends show their admiration

for their heroes by 

• imitating them.

In “Was Tarzan a Three-Bandage Man?,” when Cosby’s mother tells him to take off that bandage right now “or I’ll have your

father move you up to stitches,” the humor of her statement comes from

 

• exaggeration.

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

• two oranges.

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

 

• With understanding.

The word “critical” best describes Emily Dickinson’s attitude toward ____

in “I’m Nobody”. 

• fame

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.

In “The Third Level,” the hobby that leads Charley to believe that time

travel is really possible is

  

• stamp collecting.

Good Luck!

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