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Name _________________________________ I.D. Number _______________________ Unit 6 Evaluation Eleventh Grade English 2 ENGH 040 060 This evaluation will cover the lessons in this unit. It is open book, meaning you can use your textbook, syllabus, and other course materials. You will need to understand, analyze, and apply the information you have learned in order to answer the questions correctly. To submit the evaluation, follow the directions in your online course. Select the response that best completes the statement or answers the question. _____ 1. What are antojos? a. b. c. d. _____ 2. What event or activity is interrupted in medias res as the story “Antojos” begins? a. b. c. d. _____ Yolanda is talking to Jose. Yolanda is driving in the country. Yolanda is changing a tire. Yolanda is eating a guava. 3. In what way are Yolanda’s aunts’ warnings an example of foreshadowing in “Antojos”? a. b. c. d. _____ friends cravings fruits good deeds They suggest that Yolanda will return to the Dominican Republic. They indicate that she will meet someone famous. They suggest that something will happen to Yolanda. They forecast an excursion with no problems. 4. Which of the following details about the country roads in “Antojos” can be used to make a prediction about Yolanda’s trip? a. b. c. d. Unit 6 Evaluation The roads are paved. The roads have no signs. The roads lead to the ocean. The roads are narrow and bumpy. 1 ENGH 040 _____ 5. Why does Yolanda allow the men to believe she is American and cannot speak Spanish? a. Because of the fighting within her country, she feels she is safer being thought of as an outsider. b. She enjoys lying about her identity. c. She is ashamed of her heritage and plans to return to America anyway. d. She believes the men are American. _____ 6. What do the narrator and the young woman do at the end of “Everything Stuck to Him”? a. b. c. d. _____ They go walk around Milan. They stay home. They go to a movie. They return to the United States. 7. Determine the best meaning of the word “striking” in the following passage from “Everything Stuck to Him:” “Sally was the girl’s sister. She was striking.” a. b. c. d. _____ 8. What is the setting of “Everything Stuck to Him”? a. b. c. d. _____ aggressive attractive awkward quietly sad Milan at Christmas New York in the summer Indiana in autumn California for Easter 9. The story within the story in “Everything Stuck to Him” is about a. b. c. d. a winter night in Italy. a young couple and their baby. a father and his adult daughter. a Christmas celebration. _____ 10. Which of the following best describes Raymond Carver’s style in “Everything Stuck to Him”? a. b. c. d. Unit 6 Evaluation tragic elaborate suspenseful minimalist 2 ENGH 040 _____ 11. The dialogue in “Everything Stuck to Him” is minimalist because a. b. c. d. it is brief. it is filled with vivid adjectives. it occurs between two people. some of it occurred in the past. _____ 12. At the end of “Everything Stuck to Him,” the narrator reveals that a. b. c. d. he was the boy in the story. he does not care about the past. he does not remember the young woman. he did now know the boy in his story. _____ 13. In “Halley’s Comet,” which of the following line groups is end-stopped, rather than enjambed? a. b. c. d. wrote its name in chalk / across the board and told us and if it wandered off its course / and smashed into the earth At supper I felt sad to think / that it was probably searching the starry sky, / waiting for the world to end. _____ 14. In “Halley’s Comet,” the first two scenes portray the schoolteacher Miss Murphy and the red-headed preacher in the public square.