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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If the Arab choices the south, what will he be subjected to?
(a) Nomad law
(b) Total freedom
(c) Police law
(d) Continued life in the schoolhouse

2. Which of the following would be an antonym for chaotic?
(a) Ordered
(b) Disarranged
(c) Calm
(d) Uncontrolled

3. Which of the following is the opposite of the protagonist?
(a) Allegory
(b) Hyperbole
(c) Antagonist
(d) Oxymoron

4. Which of the following is the best definition of imagery?
(a) Comparing two unrelated items
(b) Illustrations
(c) Comparing two items using words such as like and as
(d) Creating mental pictures in the reader's mind

5. What could be said is used by the author to represent the anxiousness of Daru?
(a) Irony
(b) Personification
(c) False foreshawdowing
(d) Protagonism

6. The end of the Arab's freedom will cause which action definitely?
(a) Return of Daru to isolation
(b) Daru's return to the Army
(c) Daru's unhappiness
(d) The war to begin

7. The author expresses a paradox with which event in the story?
(a) The crime of murder in a schoolhouse
(b) The isolation of the schoolhouse
(c) Daru throwing pebbles in the snow
(d) The Arab sleeping in the schoolhouse with Daru

8. What do both the reader and Daru discover is happening during the long, lonely, sleepless night?
(a) Bonding between Daru and the Arab
(b) Natural events
(c) War battles are building
(d) Nothing

9. In the phrase, the Arab will obey nomad law, which word is an adjective?
(a) The
(b) Nomad
(c) Law
(d) Arab

10. Daru is to hunter as Arab is to:
(a) Prey
(b) Student
(c) Hunted
(d) Foreign

11. When Daru wakes up the Arab who looks frightened. This is an example of what?
(a) Personification
(b) Similes
(c) Imagery
(d) Metaphors

12. Which term could be used to describe what soldiers build when they share living quarters?
(a) Discord
(b) Treaties
(c) Alliances
(d) Antagonism

13. The author compares the Daru's life to that of a what?
(a) Policeman
(b) Soldier
(c) Monk
(d) Murder

14. Which of the following is a definition for moral?
(a) Believable
(b) Principles of what is right
(c) Must be done
(d) Difficult decisions

15. Noun is to fate as adverb is to:
(a) Yesterday
(b) Aggressive
(c) Hopeless
(d) Slow

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Daru feel about the journey in the morning?

2. Which of the following words has a suffix?

3. Which type of imagery is prevalent throughout this short story?

4. Which of the following is an example of possible foreshadowing of a violent end for the Arab?

5. Which of the following descriptors could be not used to best describe the setting around the schoolhouse?

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