DIRECTIONS Use complete sentences to respond to each question about your novel or short story.
When providing quotations from your text, include page numbers in parentheses.

EXAMPLE
Describe the protagonist of your novel or short story.
The protagonist of my novel is a tough, 16-year-old girl named Delaney who is struggling to raise her little sisters.

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.
Although she was just 16 years old, Delaney had spent much of her life providing for her sisters. She displayed the toughness and weariness of someone twice her age.

Choose a short passage that develops the setting of your novel. Include the quotation and answer the associated questions in the space below.

Read this excerpt from "birdfoot's grampa.” the old man must have stopped our car two dozen times to climb out and gather into his hands the small toads blinded by our lights and leaping, live drops of rain. what are readers most likely to infer from the phrase "blinded by our lights”? a the action in the poem takes place at night. b the weather makes the toads difficult to see. c another car is coming around the bend. d grampa is shining a lantern to see the toads.

However, the idea of real-life people living in what would become the united states for thousands of years before columbus ever left spain never dawned on me. what would be the best way to revise this sentence for greater clarity? a) however, the fact that columbus left spain thousands of years after people settled what would become the united states never dawned on me. b) it never dawned on me, however, the idea of real-life people living in what would become the united states for thousands of years before columbus ever left spain. c) however, the fact that people were already living in what would become the united states for thousands of years before columbus ever left spain never dawned on me. d) however, the idea never dawned on me that long before columbus ever left spain, real-life people lived for thousands of years in what would become the united states.

In the excerpt above, what can be inferred by the statement, "the dillingham had been flung to the breeze during aformer period of prosperity.?