Problems with Hurricanes & Children Walk on Chairs

Which is the main comparison made in “Problems with Hurricanes”?

• Different ways of dying in a hurricane are compared.

• Different steps for surviving hurricanes are compared.

• The chances of dying in different types of disasters are compared.

• The effects of hurricanes on different types of objects are compared.

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According to the campesino in “Problems with Hurricanes,” why should people worry most about flying fruit during a hurricane?

• because death by flying fruit is undignified

• because people do not expect to see flying fruit

• because flying fruit is deadlier than wind or water

• because flying fruit is easier to avoid than wind or water

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In “Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard,” where does the speaker most likely see the children crossing the schoolyard?

• in a dream

• at a local school

• in a photograph

• on a television news show

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What experience with his own son is the speaker reminded of in “Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard”?

• holding his son’s hand while crossing the street

• carrying his sleeping son up the stairs to bed

• watching his restless son walking on chairs

• watching his son’s graceful dance steps

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What is the most likely meaning of projectiles in the following lines from “Problems with Hurricanes”? I’ll tell you he said: It’s the mangoes, avocados Green plantains and bananas Flying into town like projectiles.

• fruits

• decoys

• animals

• missiles

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Based on its context, which meaning of the word poised does the author use in the following excerpt from “Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard”?

"Hardly anything holds the children up, each poised mid-air, barely the ball of one small foot kissing the chair’s wood, so they don’t just step across, but pause above the water."

• alert

• ready

• elegant

• balanced

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Part A: Based on its context, what is the meaning of the word ferried in the following excerpt from “Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard”?

"I want the children ferried quickly across so they can get back to slapping one another on the neck and cheating one another at checkers."

• rotated

• excited

• assisted

• transported

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Part B: Which words from “Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard” most clearly support the answer to Part A?

Part A asked what the meaning of ferried was in the text:

"I want the children ferried quickly across so they can get back to slapping one another on the neck and cheating one another at checkers." The answer choices were: rotated, excited, assisted and transported.

• want the children

• quickly across

• slapping one another

• on the neck

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Read the final lines of “Problems with Hurricanes”: "If you are going out beware of mangoes/And all such beautiful sweet things." What effect are these lines most likely intended to have on readers?

• to create a sense of uncertainty about which other types of fruit may pose a danger

• to reveal that the speaker is not serious about the dangers of fruit, but speaking in jest

• to add to readers’ wonder at fruits as simultaneously dangerous, absurd, and beautiful

• to lead readers to conclude that beautiful things such as mangoes pose

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What is the underlying message of the following lines from “Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard”? I forget how disaster works, how it can turn a child back into glistening butterfish or finches. And then they’ll just do what they do, which is teach the rest of us how to move with such natural gravity.

• Children can quickly adapt to the unexpected.

• Children are fragile creatures who need protection.

• Children move more quickly and nimbly than adults.

• Children can lose their ability to reason in emergencies.

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