Grace’s Painful Pattern Repeated; See it?

What is a sestina?

• A dance in which people make the same graceful leap a thousand times.
• an abstract painting that makes people wince when they look at it.
• a movie about a man whose days repeat themselves over and over.
• a nine-hundred year old poetic structure that follows a pattern of sixes.

What is the structure of this story?

• It is divided into six sections, and each section is divided into six paragraphs.
• It is divided into two sections, and each section presents the point of view of a different character.
• It is divided into four sections, which move back and forth between the lives of two characters.
• It is divided into three sections, and each section ends with the same sentence.

Read the following sentence from the story: “Sometimes, ‘Sestina said, ‘ painters have to paint something painful in order to avoid painting something thats just another painting repeated."

• Sestina believes that painters would rather paint something that looks like another painting than paint something painful.
• Sestina believes that painters would rather paint something painful than paint something that looks like another painting.
• Sestina believes that painters make paintings because they enjoy causing pain in people who visit art museums.
• Sestina believes that painters should make more paintings that look like other paintings and fewer paintings that are painful.

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What is Grace’s attitude towards patterns?

• Grace likes following familiar patterns when she is walking around the city but not when she is writing a poem.
• Grace likes following familiar patterns when she is walking around the city and when she is writing poems.
• Grace likes patterns that are new to her more than patterns that are familiar to her.
• Grace likes patterns that are familiar to her more than patterns that are new to her.

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What is the theme of this story?

• the joy of painting
• the joy of dancing
• the consequences of telling lies
• the significance of patterns

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Read the following sentence from the story: “The colors are so bright,’ Pete said, wincing at a modern abstract painting,’looking at it is literally painful.”
What does Pete mean when he says that looking at the painting is “literally painful”?

• Looking at the painting reminds him of a sestina.
• Looking at the painting reminds him of a painful moment his life.
• Looking at the painting causes him to feel pain.
• Looking at the painting causes him to imagine something painful.

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Select the word that best completes the sentence.
Grace likes the sestina very much;_________________, Pete doesn’t see the point of it.

• In contrast
• Therefeore
• For instance
• Most importantly 

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Where do Pete and Sestina go after they get off the train?

• church
• museum
• theater
• poetry show

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Pete feels joy and pain at the museum. Looking at an abstract painting is literally painful for him. However, he is later filled with joy because of his new experience checking out modern art.

• True
• False

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At the end of the story, Pete says to Sestina, Sestina, "you’ve broken my pattern and I attribute our new friendship to a rare state of grace." 
Pete means: Sestina has broken his pattern because she has gotten him to visit the modern art section of the museum for the first time, and that his connection with Sestina has filled him with joy that he does not often experience in the routine of his life 

• True
• False

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