The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem - Study Sync

This excerpt from The Conjure-Man Dies is written in _______ tense, from a _______ point of view.

• past; first-person

• past; third-person

• present; first-person

• present; third-person

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CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

What do the following lines mainly reveal about Dr. Archer’s patient (paragraphs 35-38)?

“Not a twitch,” he said.

“Long gone, huh?”

“Not so long. Still warm. But gone.”

The short young man looked at his scowling freckled companion. “What’d I tell you?” he whispered.

• He died of natural causes.

• He died very recently.

• He is not really dead.

• He is in a coma.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraphs 40-42)?

The tall one did not answer but watched the door. The doctor put aside his stethoscope and inspected the patient’s head more closely, the parted lips and half-open eyes. He extended a hand and with his extremely long fingers gently palpated the scalp. “Hello,” he said. He turned the far side of the head toward him and looked first at that side, then at his fingers.

“Wh-what?”

“Blood in his hair,” announced the physician. He procured a gauze dressing from his bag, wiped his moist fingers, thoroughly sponged and reinspected the wound. Abruptly he turned to the two men, whom until now he had treated quite impersonally.

• Dr. Archer believes he has discovered Frimbo’s cause of death.

• Dr. Archer needs to go back to his office for additional supplies.

• Bubber and Jinx are keeping something from Dr. Archer.

• Frimbo has faked his own death.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

Which of the following selections best summarizes the concluding passage (paragraph 51)?

“No, suh, doc.” Jinx became articulate. “He didn’t do nothin’ the whole time I was in there. Nothin’ but talk. He tol’ me who I was and what I wanted befo’ I could open my mouth. Well, I said that I knowed that much already and that I come to find out sump’m I didn’t know. Then he went on talkin’, tellin’ me plenty. He knowed his stuff all right. But all of a sudden he stopped talkin’ and mumbled sump’m ‘bout not bein’ able to see. Seem like he got scared, and he say, ‘Frimbo, why don’t you see?’ Then he didn’t say no more. He sound’ so funny I got scared myself and jumped up and grabbed that light and turned it on him—and there he was.”

• Jinx is sure that there was at least one other person in the room with them when Frimbo died.

• Before he died, Frimbo had been acting strangely all evening.

• Jinx was in the room with Frimbo when he died, but he did not see it happen.

• Frimbo died before Jinx and Bubber could expose him for being a fraud.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.W.7.9A

Dr. Archer’s behavior during his examination of Frimbo is best described as __________.

• erratic and unprepared

• annoyed and irritable

• overwhelmed

• composed and professional

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.9A

Which sentence from The Conjure-Man Dies most strongly supports that Dr. Archer’s behavior during his examination of Frimbo was professional?

• “Within the room the physician stopped, looking about in surprise.”

• “We didn’t even know he was over the river.”

• “Still imperturbably, but incisively, in the manner of lancing an abscess, he asked, ‘Who are you two gentlemen’?”

• “What do you mean—is somebody killed him?”

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

Which of the following inferences about Bubber and Jinx is best supported by the text?

• They are squeamish and uneasy around death.

• They suspect Dr. Archer of foul play.

• They are worried that the dead man is faking it.

• They believe Frimbo predicted his own death.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

Which sentence from the text most strongly supports that Bubber and Jinx are squeamish and uneasy around death. ?

• “I went back with him—and there was Frimbo, jes’ like you found him.”

• “But he and his friend obeyed, carrying out their task with a dispatch born of distaste.”

• “Shortly, the physician, bag in hand, was hurrying up the graystone stoop behind his guide.”

• “And now in the dark chair beneath the odd lamp the doctor made out a huddled, shadowy form.”

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

Who says the following lines -

“He sound’ so funny I got scared myself and jumped up and grabbed that light and turned it on—and there he was.”

• Frimbo

• Jinx

• Dr. Archer

• Bubber

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CCSS.RL.7.1

Who says the following lines -

“We jes’ come here to get this Frimbo’s advice ’bout a little business project we thought up.”

• Bubber

• Dr. Archer

• Frimbo

• Jinx