Hey, Come On Out

In “He—y, Come On Ou—t!,” how do the villagers come to discover the hole?

• A landslide has swept away a shrine that had covered it.

• A typhoon has destroyed a building that had covered it.

• A child from the village falls into it by accident.

• A construction worker notices it while clearing debris.

Which event creates situational irony in the ending of “He—y, Come On Ou—t!”?

• The hole never fills up, and the city becomes cleaner and better.

• A voice shouts from the sky, and a pebble falls toward the city.

• The city keeps expanding until the village is swallowed up.

• The hole is filled and eventually pollutes the entire village.

In “He—y, Come On Ou—t!,” what is remarkable about the hole that the villagers discover?

• It is very wide.

• It is in a holy place.

• It seems to be bottomless.

• It is filled with different things.

In “He—y, Come On Ou—t!,” how does the scientist who comes to examine the hole behave?

• He acts as if the hole is not at all unusual.

• He acts as if the hole is an unnatural event.

• He acts as if the hole will go away on its own.

• He acts as if the hole is too dangerous to explore.

In “He—y, Come On Ou—t!,” who offers to fill the hole?

• one of the scientists

• a government worker

• a newspaper reporter

• one of the concessionaires

In “He—y, Come On Ou—t!,” what is the main reason that “the hole gave peace of mind to the dwellers of the city”?

• The city dwellers were relieved to know that the nuclear waste was stored safely underground.

• The city dwellers could produce more and more without worrying about the consequences.

• The city dwellers could feel safe because the hole was in the village, miles from the city.

• The city dwellers were glad to have such a wonderful place in which to bury their dead.

How does the incident with the workman at the end of “He—y, Come On Ou—t!” most clearly present an example of dramatic irony?

• The narrator hears the workman say something that he does not really mean.

• The reader knows more about what is happening than the workman does.

• The workman’s behavior is not what the reader might predict.

• The workman’s appearance is unexpected and surprising.

As the concessionaire begins to sell space in the hole in “He—y, Come On Ou—t!,” he advertises it by announcing, “We’ve got a fabulously deep hole!” What makes this statement a form of verbal irony?

• Space in the hole is not worth having, and the concessionaire knows that.

• The hole is not really deep at all, but the concessionaire exaggerates its size.

• The hole is deep in a terrifying way, but the concessionaire makes it sound positive.

• Space in the hole cannot really be sold, and the concessionaire does not really own it.

Which of the following instances from "He—y, Come On Ou—t!" is an example of an ironic moment?

• People from the village try to figure out how deep the hole is.

• The hole-filling company gets government contracts.

• Criminals use the hole to destroy evidence.

• A pebble falls from the clear, blue sky.

Read the following sentence about "He—y, Come On Ou—t!" After the concessionaire takes over the hole, the sequence of events shows the hole's impact on the community. What is the meaning of the word sequence as it is used in the sentence?

• following of one thing after another

• belonging in a storyline

• disrupting the order of events

• gathering events and ideas together