"Going Home"

"Going Home"

12th Grade

10 Qs

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"Going Home"

"Going Home"

Assessment

Quiz

English

12th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RL.11-12.2, RL.8.6, RL.11-12.4

+24

Standards-aligned

Created by

Yvonnette Calixte

Used 24+ times

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The primary purpose of the first paragraph is to:

A. describe the narrator's transition from her everyday working life in the city to the world of her her rural childhood.

B. explain why the narrator becomes so frustrated when she arrives at her mother's house in the countryside.

C. give the reader enough background about the setting of the story to explain the events of the later parts of the passage

D. foreshadow the narrator's feelings of abandonment as described in the last paragraph in the passage.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The narrator considers the weather in Alabama during the summer time to be:

F. humid and extremely hot

G. unbearably hot and miserable

H. cool and breezy

J. Pleasantly familiar

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

It can be reasonably be inferred from the second paragraph (lines 15-28) that the narrator's feelings upon seeing her childhood home are feelings of:

A. surprise at the dilapidated state of the building.

B. frustration and anger towards her mother.

C. joy tinged with fatigue caused by her travels.

D. familiar recognition combined with nervousness

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The best description of the point of view from which this passage is told is that of a:

F. daughter describing her thoughts during an event in her adult life.

G. daughter reminiscing about her distant childhood.

H. mother remembering her daughter's visit to the family home.

J. mother who longs to visit her adult daughter but cannot

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

As it it used in line 28, the word braced most nearly means:

A. fastened

B. straightened

C. Prepared

D. supported

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

As revealed in the passage, the mother is best described as:

F. harsh and uncompromising.

G. uneducated yet wise.

H. altruistic and warm.

J. distant but caring.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The central concern presented in the passage is:

A. the anger that a daughter feels towards her distant mother ad her struggles to overcome this anger.

B. the conflicting emotions experienced by the narrator upon her homecoming from her life in the city to the rural childhood of her youth

C. the narrator's realization that her mother has aged terribly during the during the four years the narrator spend in the college

D. an older woman's cautious but willful acceptance of her daughter's foreign lifestyle as the older woman is forced to stay in her hometown

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

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