Unit #6 StudySync Beyond Reality Review

In "Everybody Out by Randall Munroe, he suggests all the following as a method to leave the Earth EXCEPT...

• A space elevator to climb to outer space

• A fleet of rocket ships to take people to outer space

• A nuclear explosion to blast humanity to outer space

• A monorail train to take people of the Earth

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In Children of Blood and Bone, the author writes: "I throw myself to the side, rolling across the mat as her staff smacks against its reeds. Yemi rears back to strike again as I struggle to find my footing."

This is an example of...

• First person narrator

• Second person narrator

• Third person narrator

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In the poem "Spaceships" by Derrick Harriell, the speaker is enamored with his uncles'...

• cars

• cameras

• clothes

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted directly after and because of...

• the Revolutionary War

• World War II

• The 9-11 Attacks

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CCSS.RL.7.1

"Manuel and the Magic Fox" is a story that could best be classified as...

• a folktale

• magical realism

• a dystopia

• a science fiction story

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The narrator in "There Will Come Soft Rains" is all knowing. "He" can see "the eggs were shriveled and the toast was like a stone" in the kitchen, while also seeing that "the front door recognized the dog voice and opened" and that "bridge tables sprouted from patio walls" in the house. This type of narrator is called...

• first person narrator

• second person narrator

• third person limited narrator

• third person omiscient narrator

In "War of the Worlds" by HG Wells, the author writes, "I did not dare go back towards the pit, but I felt a passionate longing to peer into it." What point of view is taken here?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

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CCSS.RL.6.6

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In the poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains," the author writes, "Not one would mind, neither bird not tree/ if mankind perished utterly/ And spring herself, when she woke at dawn,/ Would scarcely know that we were gone." What is the theme of this poem?

• Without people, nature would cease to exist.

• The importance of nature depends on humans to enjoy it.

• Nature is not concerned with the actions of humans.

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The best example of a science fiction story is...

• "Spaceships" Poem

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• There Will Come Soft Rains

• The Dark is Rising

The best example of a folktale is...

• Children of Blood and Bone

• Hare Who Drank Boiling Water and Married the Princess

• War of the Worlds

• There Will Come Soft Rains

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