"Invisible Thread" Quiz

At the opening of the selection from An Invisible Thread, Maurice makes a toast to Laura. Which statement best describes Maurice and Laura on that occasion?

• Maurice is still a young boy, and Laura is a young working woman.

• Maurice has just gotten married, and Laura is attending the wedding.

• Maurice is a grown man, and Laura is celebrating her

  fiftieth birthday.

• Maurice and Laura have reunited after many years to recall

  their youth.

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According to the selection from An Invisible Thread, what did Maurice ask Laura for on the day they met?

• food

• work

• money

• friendship

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According to the selection from An Invisible Thread, what did Laura do for Maurice on the day they first met? Choose two options.

• She invited him home for a meal.

• She introduced him to her family.

• She played some games with him.

• She helped him with his schoolwork.

• She bought him a meal in a

  restaurant.

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Which of these statements best portrays Maurice and Laura’s relationship as presented in the selection from An Invisible Thread?

• Maurice benefited from the relationship much more than

  Laura did.

• Laura benefited from the relationship much more than

  Maurice did.

• Laura and Maurice both benefited enormously from the

  relationship.

• Neither Laura nor Maurice benefited very much from the

  relationship.

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How does someone behave if she shows resilience in the face of a problem?

• She completely ignores the problem.

• She is able to recover from the problem.

• She feels helpless about the problem.

• She blames someone else for the problem.

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What kind of person most clearly displays perseverance?

• a lazy person

• an impatient person

• a hard-working person

• an old-fashioned person

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Which of these people most clearly displays generosity?

• someone who says one thing but does the opposite

• someone who displays many different skills and talents

• someone who bores others with endless talk on a topic

• someone who donates a lot of time and money to charity

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Which of these characteristics of the selection from An Invisible Thread specifically show that it is written from the first-person point of view? Choose two options.

• The author uses the pronoun I to refer to herself.

• The author recounts events that really happened.

• The author uses the pronoun he to refer to Maurice.

• The author is involved in the events being recounted.

• The author gives thoughts and feelings of more than one

  person.

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How does Laura Schroff, the author and first-person narrator of the selection from An Invisible Thread, mainly share Maurice’s thoughts and feelings about their relationship?

• by describing his actions at the dinner

• by describing his appearance at the dinner

• by providing the conversation that he and she had

• by providing a direct quotation of the toast he made

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In the selection from An Invisible Thread, what is one main difference in the points of view that Laura and Maurice express?

• Laura focuses primarily on the past, but Maurice focuses

  primarily on the present.

• Maurice focuses on the importance of her birthday, but

  Laura focuses on their relationship.

• Maurice thinks he should be grateful to Laura, but Laura

  thinks she should be grateful to Maurice.

• Maurice has warm feelings for everyone attending the

  dinner, but Laura feels awkward among those people.

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