On any or all

15. because he is and has no money, the narrator in langston hughes's short story "why, you reckon? " goes along with a plan to steal from a white person.
angry
violent
bored
hungry

read the following passage from “barn burning” by william faulkner and answer the question.
1 to-morrow they were there. in the early afternoon the wagon stopped before a paintless two-room
2 house identical almost with the dozen others it had stopped before even in the boy’s ten years, and again,
3 as on the other dozen occasions, his mother and aunt got down and began to unload the wagon,
4 although his two sisters and his father and brother had not moved.
5 "likely hit ain’t fitten for hawgs," one of the sisters said.
6 "nevertheless, fit it will and you’ll hog it and like it," his father said. "get out of them chairs
7 and your ma unload."
8 the two sisters got down, big, bovine, in a flutter of cheap ribbons; one of them drew from the
9 jumbled wagon bed a battered lantern, the other a worn broom. his father handed the reins to the
10 older son and began to climb stiffly over the wheel. "when they get unloaded, take the team to the
11 barn and feed them." then he said, and at first the boy thought he was still speaking to his
12 brother: "come with me."
13 "me? " he said.
14 "yes," his father said. "you."
15 "abner," his mother said. his father paused and looked back—the harsh level stare beneath the shaggy,
16 graying, irascible brows.
17 "i reckon i’ll have a word with the man that aims to begin to-morrow owning me body and soul for
18 the next eight months."
19 they went back up the road. a week ago—or before last night, that is—he would have asked where
20 they were going, but not now. his father had struck him before last night but never before had he paused
afterward to explain why; it was as if the blow and the following calm, outrageous voice still rang,
21 repercussed, divulging nothing to him save the terrible handicap of being young, the light weight of his
22 few years, just heavy enough to prevent his soaring free of the world as it seemed to be ordered but
23 not heavy enough to keep him footed solid in it, to resist it and try to change the course of
24 its events.

16. what does the phrase "even in the boy's ten years" in line 2 suggest?
the family used to move often before the boy was born.
the family has had to move frequently because of the boy.
the family has moved a lot during the boy's life.
the family has moved every other year since the boy was born.
17. when the father talks about the man who will "own" him, he is talking about his
boss.
minister.
coworker.
slavemaster.
18. in which lines does the author use hyperbole?
lines 1–4
lines 8–12
lines 13–16
lines 20–24
19. the last paragraph describes the boy's
patience.
maturity.
innocence.
stubbornness.

27. "sure you can ask me a personal question" is written as a
traditional hymn.
heroic tale.
one-sided conversation.
humorous dialogue.

29. berlin laughs uncontrollably in "where have you gone, charming billy? " because he finds billy's death
ironic.
comical.
tragic.
senseless.
30. the title of tobias wolff's short story "mortals" most likely reflects the theme that
every living thing is destined to die in the end.
no one can predict when or how he or she will die.
everyone is concerned about the legacies they will leave behind.
celebrities fear death as much as people who are not famous.

35. read the sentence below. choose the correct tense of the underlined verb.

that factory will produce more than 10 million chocolate bars this month.
past
present
future
both present and future

37. choose the pronoun that correctly completes the sentence below.

last night, the man told me about the meteor shower was at the same park as we were.
whom
who
that
which