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| In "Searching for Summer," what makes Mr. Noakes believe that Tom and Lily have found sunlight? | They are suntanned. |
| In "Searching for Summer," why does Mr. Noakes want Lily and Tom to tell him where the sunlight is? | so he can turn the place into a resort |
| In "Searching for Summer," why does the sun only shine over the Hatching's cottage? | They seem to have lived in peace and harmony with nature. |
| In "The Pedestrian," what is everyone else in town doing while Mr. Leonard Mead walks at night? | watching TV |
| In "The Pedestrian," why is Mead surprised to see a police car? | The city has only one, so the odd that he would see it are slim. |
| In "The Pedestrian," where is Mead taken at the end of the story? | the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies |
| What is a simile? | A comparison between two UNLIKE things, using a word such as like or as |
| What is a metaphor? | An imaginative comparison between two UNLIKE things in which one thing is said to be another thing |
| This is an example of what? Jerry is as blind as a bat. | simile |
| This is an example of what? Bob has a heart of stone. | metaphor |
| What is personification? | a figure of speech in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive |
| This is an example of what? The sun glared down at me from the sky. | personification |
| What is onomatopoeia? | The words we use to describe sounds |
| These are examples of what? Boom, zoom, pow | onomatopoeia |
| What is alliteration? | Same beginning sound, letter, or group of sounds over and over |
| This is an example of what? Julie Jackson juggled the juicy, jiggly Jell-O. | alliteration |
| What is a hyperbole? | extreme exaggeration |
| This is an example of what? I am so hungry I could eat a horse. | hyperbole |
| In "Sweet Potato Pie," what is the relationship between the narrator and Charley? | They are brothers. |
| In "Sweet Potato Pie," what is Charley hoping to do when he hits Buddy with the wet dishrag? | Charley is trying to cure Buddy of his stuttering. |
| In "Sweet Potato Pie," why doesn't Buddy tell Charley and Bea that he will be in town and visiting? | Buddy doesn't want Charley and Bea to go to a lot of trouble getting ready for his visit. |
| In "Sweet Potato Pie," why won't Charley let Buddy take the sweet potato pie into the hotel? | The pie is in the brown paper bag, and Charley doesn't think the bag fits his brother's image as a professional. |
| In "Brigid," at the beginning of this story, what does Owen’s wife want to have happen to Brigid? | She wants her to go to an institution. |
| In "Brigid," why does Brigid not help Owen after he fell? | She does not understand what has happened. |
| In "Brigid," at the end of the story, what does Owen's wife decide to do about Brigid? | She takes Brigid into her own home. |
| In "Lalla," who is the narrator? | Jane, Lalla's younger sister |
| In "Lalla," why does Lalla's family move to Cornwall? | Her father has died. |
| In "Lalla," at the end of the story, who does she develop a relationship with? | Godfrey |
| In "One Thousand Dollars," why isn't Gillian happy about inheriting $1,000 from his uncle? | He thinks the amount is awkward - too much to spend easily and quickly, but too little to make him rich. |
| In "One Thousand Dollars," what had Gillian written in the note for the lawyer? | He wrote that he had given the money to Miss Hayden. |
| In "One Thousand Dollars," what does Gillian tell the lawyers that he has done with the $1,000? | He says he lost it gambling on the races. |
| In "Initiation," what tasks did Millicent have to perform as part of the hazing process? | She has to obey the orders of an unpleasant member, sing in the public square, ask the people on the bus about their breakfast, ask in shops for broken crackers and mangoes, have a raw egg broken on her head, and remain alone in a gloomy, dark basement. |
| In "Initiation," why wasn't Millicent's friend Tracy asked to join the sorority? | According to one club member, Tracy is too different from the acceptable norm. She wears knee socks and carries a book bag. |
| In "The Teacher Who Changed My Life," why did Gage and his sisters come to the United States? | They wanted to escape the Communist guerrillas in Greece during a civil war. |
| In "The Teacher Who Changed My Life," what did Miss Hurd ask Gage to write about? | what happened to his family in Greece |
| In "The Teacher Who Changed My Life," how does Miss Hurd continue to play a role in the author's life? | She attends family events and is a good friend. |
| In "Everyday Use," why did Dee leave home? | She left home to go to school. |
| In "Everyday Use," why does Dee want the quilts? | Dee wants to display the quilts on her wall. |
| In "Everyday Use," why does the narrator give Maggie the quilts? | The narrator gives Maggie the quilts because she realizes that Maggie understands their value. |
| In "Everyday Use," what conflicts remain at the end of the story? | Dee has not resolved her conflict with her past and her family's poverty; the family has not resolved its members' inability to understand one another. |
