
Essay Audience and Author's Message Quiz

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English
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9th Grade
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Karol Wilkins
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who is the most likely intended audience for this essay?
School principals and administrators
Foster parents of war orphans
Fellow Sierra Leonean child soldiers
Americans or Westerners in general
Tags
CCSS.RI.9-10.6
CCSS.SL.9-10.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Read these sentences from paragraph 9: "It was a chance at living again, because all I had come to know, since I was eleven, was how to survive. I didn’t know how to live." The author’s word choice in these sentences emphasizes the idea that —
he was forced to become a soldier as a child
he was able to take advantage of certain stereotypes
he was forced to grow up quickly in Sierra Leone
he was able to succeed as an immigrant to the United States
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which sentence best conveys the author’s intended message in paragraph 17?
Significant cultural differences exist between Sierra Leone and the United States.
Bureaucracies sometimes enforce regulations at the expense of people in need.
Americans have difficulty comprehending the horrors endured in war-torn places like Sierra Leone.
War inflicts emotional scars on people that time may be slow to heal.
Tags
CCSS.RI.9-10.1
CCSS.RI.9-10.2
CCSS.RI.9-10.3
CCSS.RI.9-10.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Choose the word or phrase that best uses an adverbial clause to replace the underlined section in the sentence below. At the beginning of the story, I imagined Ishmael and his new adoptive mother laughing like my mom and I do.
together
for a very long time
until tears came out of their eyes
correct as is
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.1
CCSS.L.9-10.1B
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Words and phrases such as humongous or weirded out help establish the author’s personality, or —
tone
voice
purpose
message
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What tone or attitude is suggested in the quoted text in paragraph 26 and the explanation that follows?
Confusion
Persistence
Confidence
Resentment
Tags
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which word has a more positive connotation than the word weird as it is used in paragraph 26?
Remarkable
Peculiar
Strange
Irregular
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.4
CCSS.L.9-10.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
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