SELECTION TEST "Little Things Are Big" Jesus Colon

FIRST READ: Comprehension

Identify the choice that best answers the question.

_1. What main problem does the young woman with three children have as she travels on

the subway in "Little Things Are Big"?

a. She has difficulty traveling on the train and through the station because of

her burdens.

b. She cannot ask anyone on the train for help because she cannot speak

English

C. She refuses help from any person who is not white because of her biases.

d. She does not know whether she is on the right train for her destination.

her burdens

What is the answer

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

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yes its good if for a love riddle. and the answer is a heart.

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