Choose the answer that best matches the word in italics.
The seashells were iridescent in the sunlight.
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Responses
cloudy
cloudy
drying out
drying out
breaking into pieces
breaking into pieces
shimmering with colors
shimmering with colors
shimmering with colors
Choose the answer that best matches the word in italics.
Conor’s sense of his own infallibility has contributed to his success at chess.
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Responses
competitive nature
competitive nature
inability to make an error
inability to make an error
open-mindedness
open-mindedness
strategic skills
inability to make an error
The author creates a tone of regret in the poem “On Turning Ten.” Which line best demonstrates the tone of regret? Select all that apply.
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Responses
“Disfiguring chicken pox of the soul”
“Disfiguring chicken pox of the soul”
“The perfect simplicity of being one”
“The perfect simplicity of being one”
“But now I am mostly at the window”
“But now I am mostly at the window”
“You tell me it is too early to be looking back”
“You tell me it is too early to be looking back”
Narguesse, in My Forbidden Face, starts a rebellion among the women. What kept the guards from killing her?
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Narguesse, in My Forbidden Face, starts a rebellion among the women. What kept the guards from killing her?
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Responses
Her brother testified in her defense.
Her brother testified in her defense.
The company vouched for her helping build profits.
The company vouched for her helping build profits.
The other women took off their chadri and refused to leave.
The other women took off their chadri and refused to leave.
They punished her by beating her and pushing her into barbed wire.
The other women took off their chadri and refused to leave.
In the following literature selections, individuals experience rites of passage in various ways:
"The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" by W.D. Wetherell
"Oranges" by Gary Soto
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
“First Lesson” by Philip Booth
"On Turning Ten" by Billy Collins
"Hanging Fire" by Audre Lorde
from My Forbidden Face by Latifa
Shelf Life by Gary Paulsen
“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst
"Memory" by Lucille Clifton
"The Courage That My Mother Had" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Lineage" by Margaret Walker
"My Brother's Keeper" by Jay Bennett
Choose at least three of the selections above and write about the rites of passage that individuals in the selections confront. Provide evidence by including names of characters as well as specific details from the text to support your claim.