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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character stares out the window at a starless sky?
(a) Students
(b) Arab
(c) Daru
(d) Balducci

2. Which emotion might Daru have been feeling as he looked out over the deserted land beyond the plateau?
(a) Forlorn
(b) Hopeful
(c) Relieved
(d) Cheerful

3. What makes Daru anxious?
(a) Speaking with Balducci
(b) Witnessing murder
(c) Spending time with the Arab murderer
(d) Traveling in poor weather

4. Plateau is to flat land as basin is to:
(a) Valley
(b) River
(c) Hillside
(d) Mountain

5. Who is the first character to suggest that a war is imminent?
(a) Balducci
(b) Daru
(c) Albert
(d) Arab

6. Which of the following words is plural?
(a) Freedom
(b) Himself
(c) Expresses
(d) Moral

7. When words are combined and contradict each other it is called:
(a) Allegory
(b) Oxymoron
(c) Metaphor
(d) Hyperbole

8. Which of the following is not a proper noun?
(a) Arab
(b) Tinguit
(c) Schoolhouse
(d) Daru

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

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

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

12. Which of the following words is a compound word?
(a) Conclusion
(b) Threatening
(c) Chalkboard
(d) Disobeyed

13. Which of the following words has both a prefix and a suffix?
(a) Message
(b) Disobeyed
(c) Threatening
(d) Chalkboard

14. What helps the reader to feel the suspense in the story along with the characters?
(a) Metaphors
(b) Irony
(c) False Foreshawdowing
(d) Personification

15. How does the author say soldiers are brought together to become part of a shared community?
(a) Fatigue and alliances
(b) Dreams and goals
(c) Dreams and fatigue
(d) Fatigue and goals

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The end of the Arab's freedom will cause which action definitely?

3. Which of the following would best definition of the term perceiving?

4. Flood is to rain as blizzard is to:

5. Which of the following would be a synonym for foreshadow?

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