Fahrenheit 451 Sections 1 & 2 Assessment

For what reason does Alexie claim that reading and writing became important to him?

• His father encouraged him to read and learn.

• He loved and admired his father.

• He fell in love with a superhero comic.

• His house was filled with books.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Which quotation from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• 'I learned to read with a Superman comic book.'

• 'My father . . . was an avid reader of westerns . . . and anything else he could find.'

• '... since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.'

• 'I read books late into the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open.'

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the central idea of the text?

• Native American children struggle with reading and writing.

• Getting an education is important to Alexie's father.

• The ability to read and write can be a source of power.

• Everyone should be entitled to an education.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is significant about the text the author used when learning to read?

• It uses both pictures and words to tell a story.

• It is the first book given to Alexie as a child.

• It is a story that inspired Alexie as a child.

• It is about an ordinary man with special powers.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

What is the meaning of subverted as it is used in the excerpt?

• A. confused

• B. overturned

• C. failed

• D. outgrew

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does this excerpt reveal about the author's relationship with education?

• Education has made Douglass more aware of injustice.

• Learning to read and write was a struggle for Douglass.

• Education has led to Douglass's desire for freedom.

• Douglass regrets learning to read because it caused him pain.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Read the excerpt, then answer the questions.

Excerpt: The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men. As I read and contemplated the subject, behold! that very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come, to torment and sting my soul to unutterable anguish.

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Part A

What does this excerpt reveal about the author's relationship with education?

• A.

  Education has made Douglass more aware of injustice.

• B. Learning to read and write was a struggle for Douglass.

• C. Education has led to Douglass's desire for freedom.

• D.
  Douglass regrets learning to read because it caused him pain.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Read the excerpt, then answer the questions.

Excerpt: The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men. As I read and contemplated the subject, behold! that very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come, to torment and sting my soul to unutterable anguish.

Which line from the excerpt best supports the answer to Part A?

• A. "The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers."

• B. "I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had . . . in a strange land reduced us to slavery . . ."

• C. "That very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come . . . "

• D. "I read and contemplated the subject . . ."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Reorder the following. Drag to arrange each incident from the story into the correct chronological order.

• Douglass learns to write by copying Master Thomas's workbooks.

• Douglass is forbidden from reading by his mistress.

• Douglass practices reading in secret.

• Douglass begins to feel discontent at his situation.

• Douglass's mistress begins teaching him to read.

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CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Read the excerpt, then answer the question.

It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity. I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Anything, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate. The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Which two phrases best convey the reason for Douglass's struggle?

• . . . the horrible pit . . .

• . . . this everlasting thinking of my condition . . .

• I envied my fellow-slaves . . .

• The silver trump of freedom . . .

• . . . wished myself a beast.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3