Fri. Oct. 14, 2016: Process of Elimination Activity

Today, you were to have read "A Field of Wheat" for class. You were given questions to answer in relation to this reading. These questions ask you to answer using process of elimination and then explain why you got rid of the distractors you chose.  I have pasted these questions below. They are to be completed for Monday's class.

III.       Read the excerpt from "A Field of Wheat" on pages 4 to 7 of your Readings Booklet and answer questions 15 to 25.

15.       John ' s dominant quality is his

A.        vitality

B.        wisdom

C.        strength

D.        compassion

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16.       Which statement is an illustration of irony?

A.                "He was a fool for work, John." (lines 9-10)

B.                 "For the wheat allowed no respite ." (lines 21-22)

C.                 "They were only poor, taunted , driven things ; it was the wheat that   was

            invincible ." (lines 24-25)

D.                "She was suddenly as far above the desolation of the storm as a little while ago

 she had been abject before it." (lines 129-130)

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17.       In context, the statement "She had loved John, for these sixteen years had

stood close watching while he died" (lines 36-37) implies that John has

A.        destroyed his health

B.        given up the struggle

C.        stopped loving his wife

D.        lost his intensity of spirit

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18.       Martha's statement "It was the children now" (lines 46-47) implies that

A. the children have suffered too much

B. she and John are worried about the children

C. the children have become her major concern

D. the farm income is to be given to the children first

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19.       Which quotation illustrates Martha's MAIN response to past crop failures?

A.        He had had his share of failures and set-backs, if ever a man had,

twenty times over." (lines 17-18)

B.        ". . . hope climbing, wish-patterns painted on the future." (line 31)

C.        "Go on in bitterness and cowardice, because there was nothing else but

going on." (lines 34-35)

D.        "John was gone, love was gone; there was only wheat." (lines 39-40)

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20.        word "craven " (line 80) means

A.        impatiently

B.        cautiously

C.        unhappily

D.        cowardly

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21.       In which quotation is foreshadowing evident?

A.                "He had had his share of failures and set-backs." (lines 17-18)

B.                 "... what would she be like in a few years?" (lines 52-53)

C.        "... the hush over everything was like a raised finger, forbidding her."

(line 60)

D.        "As she spoke there was a sharp, crunching blow on the roof."

(line 81)

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22.       The reference to "waste of life" (line 135) suggests an attitude of

A. futility

B. hostility

C. rebellion

D. indifference

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23.       The image that conveys the lessening of hope for a good crop is found in

A.        "suddenly a bewildering awareness that the light was choked"(lines 61-62)

B.        "like a weapon that has sunk deep into flesh" (line 82)

C.        "an isolated straw standing bolt upright in headless defiance"(lines 105-106)

D.        "how find the throat of a cloud" (lines 144-145)

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24.       In the course of the entire excerpt, Martha's attitude toward John undergoes

a change from

A.        hate to love

B.        hope to despair

C.        apprehension to condescension

D.        disillusionment to understanding

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25.       Martha's outlook is ultimately one of

A.        fear

B.        anxiety

C.        resolve

D.        expectation

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