ITL Review

Why does the author include her observations in paragraph 3 in her memoir?

• To show how passengers and crew first reacted when the ship began to sink

• To introduce characters who will be important later in the selection

How do passengers react when they are asked to board lifeboats?

• Some passengers are eager to board the lifeboats, but others need encouragement.

• Most passengers do not board lifeboats, because they believe that the ship will not sink.

Read the following sentences from the memoir . Looking along the length of the ship, I noticed the forward part of her was lower now, much lower! For a fraction of a second, my heart stood still, as is often the case when faith, hitherto unshaken faith, gets its first setback. These lines reflect the narrator’ _____.

• observations on the deck

• first feelings of alarm

Read these sentences about the passage.

Violet Jessop was a stewardess aboard the Titanic. The Titanic was the largest ship in the world.

What is the best way to combine the two sentences?

• Violet Jessop was a stewardess aboard the Titanic, which was the largest ship in the world.

• Violet Jessop was a stewardess aboard the Titanic, and the largest ship in the world.

Read the following sentence “Surely it is all a dream,” I thought as I looked up the side of the ship, beautifully illuminated, each deck alive with lights; the dynamos were on the top deck. Which phrase from the sentence helps you understand the meaning of the word illuminated?

• each deck alive with lights

• Surely it is all a dream

Read the following quote from ITL. Does the quote refer to the Titanic or to a lifeboat? "the boat descended a fearful distance into that inky blackness beneath."

• Titanic

• lifeboat

Read the following quote from ITL. Does the quote refer to the Titanic or to a lifeboat? "She was getting lower in the water"

• Titanic

• lifeboat

Read the following quote from ITL. Does the quote refer to the Titanic or to a lifeboat? "the women in the boat started to weep"

• Titanic

• lifeboat

Which of the following contains a simile ?

• A tiny breeze, the first we had felt on this calm night, blew an icy blast across my face; it felt like a knife in its penetrating coldness. (paragraph 29)

• Groaning, the boat descended a fearful distance into that inky blackness beneath, intensified as the lights fell on it occasionally. (paragraph 21)

Violet Jessop probably wrote this memoir to _____.

• record her personal experience during an important event

• reveal the untold truth about an important event