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1.Which portion of the narrative arc would define the following portion from “The Oasis: Africa”?
"Suddenly the Sheikh stopped and pointed to the south. The caravan halted, and everyone prepared his arm. Matchlocks were primed, cartridges rammed home, and swords loosened in their sheaths. Was it the Tuaregs again across our path? But Mohammed, the keen-eyed, shouted joyfully—
“The oasis, the oasis! I see the palm-trees.'”
Question 3 options:
A.Exposition
B.Rising Action
C.Complicating Incident
D.Climax
2.Which detail in “The Oasis: Africa” DOES NOT support the idea that the Sahara Desert is perilous?
A."Misery of hunger, torture of thirst; unending discomfort of swarming lice."
B."This danger past, we had lost another day making a wide detour to the east in order to avoid the fierce, tameless Tuaregs, who were marauding in the district."
C."Canopus, the great star of prehistoric Egypt, blazed white above the horizon; Sirius shone like a peerless diamond, and Aldebaran like a ruby."
D."One day the dreaded sirocco had swept upon us."
3.Which textual evidence from “The Interlopers” supports the conclusion that hatred eventually takes its own revenge?
A."If only on this wild night, in this dark, lone spot, he might come across Georg Znaeym, man to man, with none to witness—that was the wish that was uppermost in his thoughts."
B."'Who are they?' asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other would gladly not have seen. 'Wolves.'"
C."An idea was slowly forming and growing in his brain, an idea that gained strength every time that he looked across at the man who was fighting so grimly against pain and exhaustion.”
D,Relief at being alive and exasperation at his captive plight brought a strange medley of pious thank-offerings and sharp curses to Ulrich's lips.”
4.ow does the narrator's point of view from "The Interlopers" shape what the reader learns from the narrative?
A.First-person point of view only lets the reader know what Georg Znaeym was thinking.
B.An omniscient narrator lets the reader know everything about the characters and events in this story.
C.First-person point of view only lets the reader know what Ulrich von Gradwitz was thinking.
D.Third-person point of view gives narration of this story from the perspective of one of the wolf pups as he told this background story to the others in the pack while they were settling down for the night picking their teeth and reminiscing from the day’s adventures.
5.Based on what readers learn from this excerpt from "The Interlopers," Why didn't the two neighbors shoot one another?
"The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. Each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind. The chance had come to give full play to the passions of a lifetime. But a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining civilisation cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbour in cold blood and without word spoken, except for an offence against his hearth and honour."
A.Ulrich von Gradwitz couldn’t pull the trigger on Georg because Georg, or Georgette (her real name), was his girlfriend in high school.
B.Their powder was wet, so they decided to duel with blades.
C.Because of their code of honor
D,They couldn’t see through the rain storm.
6.Which sentence DOES NOT provide evidence that the narrator in "The Black Cat" may be unreliable?
A,"From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition."
B."My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events."
C."We had birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey and a cat."
D,"Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence."
7.Read this excerpt from “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe.
"Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the common-place—some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects."
What does the phrase, “common-place,” mean?
A.Smelly
B.Out of place
C.Random
D,Normal/Acceptable
8.How does the first-person point of view affect the overall story in "The Black Cat"?
A.It gives readers insight into the twisted thoughts and feelings of the man condemned to die.
B.It makes readers feel at ease as they read a chilling story.
B.It allows the narrator to give information about the feelings of the man as well as his wife’s feelings.
D.It gives readers an intimate experience of what it feels like to have one's eye cut out with a pocket knife.
