Multiple Choice
Q
The following questions are based on the poems in your unit. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D according
to the texts.
6 The speaker in “A Hymn to Childhood”
a. fought with his parents as a child.
b. did not get along with his sister.
c. was put in jail as an adult.
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d. experienced violence as a child.
7 The speaker in “A Hymn to Childhood” remembers
that
a. the well at his house was poisoned.
b. soldiers entered his home and broke things.
c. his sister always rescued him when they played
games.
d. his parents loved to go to the theater.
8 The speaker feels that
a. his childhood will never end.
b. he has escaped his childhood.
c. he hopes his children will have a better
childhood.
d. his parents should have protected him more.
9 In “A Hymn to Childhood,” the speaker feels that
it’s hard to understand the difference
a. between himself and his family members.
b. between death and childhood.
c. between soldiers and politics.
d. his childhood home and his sister’s difficulties.
10 The people in “Some People” are
a. rebel fighters.
b. staying in their homes and waiting for the war to
finish.
c. sure that their government will protect them.
d. running away from violence.
11 In “Some People,” the poet
a. names the people in the poem.
b. names the people at the end of the poem.
c. names some of the people in the poem.
d. never names any of the people in the poem.
12 In “Some People,”
a. the people must leave many of their possessions
behind.
b. it is clear that the people know exactly where
they are going.
c. the people take all of their possessions with
them.
d. the people hope to remain visible so that they
can be rescued.
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13 The people in “Some People”
a. are sure they will be rescued.
b. face a lot of uncertainty.
c. never encounter evidence of violence on their
journey.
d. steal bread from the villages they pass.
14 The Committee on Appropriate Postures for the
Suffering
a. plans to eliminate poverty.
b. hopes to include suffering people’s ideas in its
plans for eliminating poverty.
c. is made up of people who used to be poor.
d. attempts to manage and control poverty.
15 The Committee believes that
a. non-suffering people should pay more attention
to suffering people.
b. non-suffering people are scary.
c. suffering people can be photogenic.
d. suffering people should take pictures of other
people.
16 The Committee thinks that suffering people with
children
a. have an unfair advantage over suffering people
without children.
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b. should use their children to help gain attention
for their difficulties.
c. should give their children to the Committee.
d. should ask others to adopt their children.
17 The Committee admits
a. to failing at their job.
b. to ignoring the suffering.
c. to supporting legislation to increase suffering.
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d. to creating a public awareness campaign of
information about homelessness.
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Q
Answer the following questions with complete sentences. Use proper grammar and spelling.

18 In “A Hymn to Childhood,” how does the speaker’s childhood affect his adulthood? Use examples and evidence
from the poem to support your answer.
Answers will vary. Answers may include but are not limited to the following. The speaker’s traumatic experiences in
childhood never leave him. He feels as if he can never escape those experiences and that they are never-ending. He

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feels that his experiences make him a perpetual child in some ways and create confusion for him. At the end of the
poem he says that he has difficulties understanding the difference between memory and imagination, heaven and
the present, hell and the present, as well as death, childhood, and dreaming.

19 Where does the poem “Some People” take place? Who are the people featured in the poem?
Answers will vary. Answers may include but are not limited to the following. The poet does not specify where the
poem takes place or who the people are. We know that most likely the people in the poem are fleeing a war or
violence of some kind.

20 In “Some People,” why do you think the poet refers to the people throughout the poem as ‘some people’? Use
examples and evidence from the poem to support your answer.
Answers will vary. See rubric for grading guidelines.
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21 How does the poet Jon Davis use satire in “Preliminary Report…”?
Answers will vary. Answers may include but are not limited to the following. The poet shows the absurdity of the
situation by emphasizing that the Committee is only concerned with how suffering people look, not with their
actual experiences. Furthermore, the poet shows that the Committee only wants to “manage” the poverty of the
suffering for public relations purposes. Again, the Committee has no actual interest in helping poor, suffering
people.

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 Vocabulary
Q
Match each vocabulary word with its definition or synonym.

22
h fleeing a) desertion, leaving someone behind, neglect

23
l oversee b) segment of a play (theater)
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24 c) fine dishes, porcelain, tableware

25
c china d) time period, epoch

26
k overlook e) destroying, breaking, shattering
m
27 assume f) packages, packs, collections
i
28 sown g) disruption, disturbance
a
29 abandonment h) running away, escaping
g
30 commotion i) planted (a field)
n
31 emaciation j) secretly
p
32 lacking k) not notice, miss, ignore
b
33 act l) supervise, manage, direct
f
34 bundles m) take on, act out
j
35 stealthily n) physical expression of extreme hunger or sickness
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36 era o) tactics that often include deception
e
37 smashing p) absent, to be without, to be deficient

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 Essay
Q
Answer the following essay question. Make sure you reflect on the stories as well as your
personal project journals to support your essay. The essay rubric will be used to grade your
essay, carefully look over it before starting your essay.

38 Pick one of the poems from the unit. Discuss how that poem demonstrates the humanity of
suffering people and how the poem suggests possibilities for responding to that suffering.
Express your own ideas and use examples and evidence from the poem to support your

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answer.
Answers will vary. Look over the essay rubric on the following page.
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 Category 4 - Above Standards 3 - Meets Standards 2 - Approaching 1 - Below Standards
Standards

The position The position A position statement There is no position

statement provides statement provides a is present, but does statement.
a clear, strong clear statement of the not make the author's
Position Statement statement of the author's position on position clear.
author's position on the topic.
the topic.

All of the examples Most of the examples At least one of Examples are NOT
are specific, relevant are specific, relevant the examples is relevant AND/OR are
and explanations and explanations relevant and has not explained.
Evidence and
are given that show are given that show an explanation that
Examples
how each piece of how each piece of shows how that piece
evidence supports the evidence supports the of evidence supports
author's position. author's position. the author's position.

A variety of thoughtful Transitions show how Some transitions The transitions

transitions are used. ideas are connected, work well, but some between ideas
They clearly show how but there is little connections between are unclear OR
Transitions ideas are connected. variety. ideas are fuzzy. nonexistent.

No errors in grammar 1-2 errors in grammar 3-4 errors in grammar More than 4 errors
or spelling that or spelling that or spelling that in grammar or
distract the reader distract the reader distract the reader spelling that distract
Grammar & Spelling from the content. from the content. from the content. the reader from the
content.

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No errors in 1-2 errors in 3-4 errors in More than 4 errors
capitalization or capitalization or capitalization and/ in capitalization and/
punctuation, so the punctuation, but the or punctuation that or punctuation that
Capitalization &
essay is exceptionally essay is still easy to catch the reader's catch the reader's
Punctuation
easy to read. read. attention and interrupt attention and interrupt
the flow. the flow.

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