Comprehension: By Any Other Name

What kind of schools was Zorinabad?

• An English day school

• An Anglo-English day school

• An Anglo-Indian day school

• An Indian day school

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Rau describes the teacher as having been in India “fifteen years or so” as having a “helpless inability to cope with Indian names” and having a “precarious bun” that “trembled” (1)? How would someone characterize this description?

• Hinting at disdain

• Hinting at surprise

• Filled with admiration

• Filled with terror

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

When Premila was given the English name ‘Pamela’, how did she react?

• She hit the teacher

• She joyfully jumped

• She looked back with brown eyes and blinked

• She kept a stubborn silence

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does Santha and Premila’s mother mean when she says “you can bury a dog’s tail for seven years and it still comes out curly, and you can take a Britisher away from his home for a lifetime and he still remains insular”?

• Dogs’ tails don’t change after seven years, but British people will change

• After seven years, a British person will want to return to Great Britian

• British people are NOT interested in other cultures: that is their nature

• Dogs and British people have many similarities

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Why did Premila and Santha begin studying in a “British-run establishment”?

• Their mother was too sick to help them

• They were finally old enough to start in a British school

• They wanted to learn English so they could go to college

• They cheated and were kicked out of their Indian school

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What detail did Santha NOT notice about one of the Indian girls sitting in the back of her class?

• She had long black plaits

• She wore a dress

• She was barefoot

• She was wearing Indian jewelry

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

INFER: How did Santha most likely feel when she couldn’t answer the teacher’s question about her name?

• Gleeful and happy

• Relieved and relaxed

• Embarrassed and ashamed

• Angry and Irate

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Why was Santha mostly bored?

• She didn’t like studying

• The language was too difficult so she just spaced out

• Her mother had already taught her what the students were learning

• She couldn’t see or hear the teacher

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Santha was accused of ‘not being a good sport’ because she was not competitive. Why did this confuse her?

• She wanted to lose so she could sit out

• She thought the rule was NOT tag others, just run

• She hated the game and didn’t want to play

• She thought the rule was to let the youngest ‘win’

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is shown to the readers about Pemila when she used the term “donkey’s years’?

• She is a farmer: she knows how long a donkey’s life is

• She is creative: she created a new metaphor

• She is smart: she can easily apply what she learned in new situations

• She is smart: she knows how long donkey’s life is

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3