From the Ninth Ward

How does the setting of Ninth Ward contribute to the conflict in the selection?

• The narrator was unprepared for how the humidity would affect the rescue crews

• The screams from the other people on their rooftops make the narrator angry.

• The sun is so hot that the narrator and her brother get sunburns while waiting on the roof.

• The Mississippi River is flooding, causing the narrator and her brother to have to be rescued.

In what way are the speaker from the poem “After the Hurricane” and the narrator from Ninth Ward similar?

• Both feel a sense of despair about what’s happening after Hurricane Katrina.

• Both feel grateful to spend time with their family members after Hurricane Katrina

• Both are looking for missing relatives at the Superdome in New Orleans.

Is the following statement true for the poem only, the novel only, or both?

• After the Hurricane (Poem)

• Ninth Ward (Novel Excerpt)

• Both

What is the setting of the story?

• New Orleans, Ninth Ward

• New York

• I have no idea

• New Jersey

How does the setting of Ninth Ward contribute to the conflict in the selection?

• The narrator was unprepared for how the humidity would affect the rescue crews

• The screams from the other people on their rooftops make the narrator angry.

• The sun is so hot that the narrator and her brother get sunburns while waiting on the roof.

• The Mississippi River is flooding, causing the narrator and her brother to have to be rescued.

In what way are the speaker from the poem “After the Hurricane” and the narrator from Ninth Ward similar?

• Both feel a sense of despair about what’s happening after Hurricane Katrina.

• Both feel grateful to spend time with their family members after Hurricane Katrina

• Both are looking for missing relatives at the Superdome in New Orleans.

Is the following statement true for the poem only, the novel only, or both?

• After the Hurricane (Poem)

• Ninth Ward (Novel Excerpt)

• Both

What is the setting of the story?

• New Orleans, Ninth Ward

• New York

• I have no idea

• New Jersey