Exam 5: Narrating

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -When does Rachel say you will feel "smart eleven"?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Maliszewski begins her essay by quoting an Italian proverb. Why do you think she chooses to do this? Is it effective?

What profession do you imitate when writing a narrative?

A narrative is organized using which organizational style?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Until recently, I rocked my daughters at bedtime (they are 3 and 6), not to sleep but to a cozy, drowsy state.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What did Maliszewski do after she wrote her rules?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -What is the effect of the photograph of Maliszewski's keepsake? What does it add to the essay?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Before she died, Maliszewski's grandmother smiled a huge ____________________.

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. We lived in Puerto Rico until my brother was born in 1954. Soon after, because of economic pressures on our growing family, my father joined the United States Navy. He was assigned to duty on a ship in Brooklyn Yard-a place of cement and steel that was to be his home base in the states until his retirement more than twenty years later. He left the Island first, alone, going to New York City and tracking down his uncle who lived with his family across the Hudson River in Paterson, New Jersey. There my father found a tiny apartment in a huge tenement that had once housed Jewish families but was just being taken over and transformed by Puerto Ricans, overflowing from New York City. In 1955, he sent for us. My mother was only twenty years old, I was not quite three, and my brother was a toddler when we arrived in El Building, as the place had been christened by its newest residents. -Judith Ortiz Cofer -List and answer the six journalistic questions.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What reason does Rachel give to explain why Mrs. Price is always right?

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. We lived in Puerto Rico until my brother was born in 1954. Soon after, because of economic pressures on our growing family, my father joined the United States Navy. He was assigned to duty on a ship in Brooklyn Yard-a place of cement and steel that was to be his home base in the states until his retirement more than twenty years later. He left the Island first, alone, going to New York City and tracking down his uncle who lived with his family across the Hudson River in Paterson, New Jersey. There my father found a tiny apartment in a huge tenement that had once housed Jewish families but was just being taken over and transformed by Puerto Ricans, overflowing from New York City. In 1955, he sent for us. My mother was only twenty years old, I was not quite three, and my brother was a toddler when we arrived in El Building, as the place had been christened by its newest residents. -Judith Ortiz Cofer -How does the author organize the details in this paragraph?

Are there any words in the essay that you do not understand?

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. We lived in Puerto Rico until my brother was born in 1954. Soon after, because of economic pressures on our growing family, my father joined the United States Navy. He was assigned to duty on a ship in Brooklyn Yard-a place of cement and steel that was to be his home base in the states until his retirement more than twenty years later. He left the Island first, alone, going to New York City and tracking down his uncle who lived with his family across the Hudson River in Paterson, New Jersey. There my father found a tiny apartment in a huge tenement that had once housed Jewish families but was just being taken over and transformed by Puerto Ricans, overflowing from New York City. In 1955, he sent for us. My mother was only twenty years old, I was not quite three, and my brother was a toddler when we arrived in El Building, as the place had been christened by its newest residents. -Judith Ortiz Cofer -What is the main point of this paragraph?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Which of Maliszewski's grandmother's rules is most meaningful to you? Why?

For the short narration by Bernard Bragg, fill in the missing W.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -She took me bowling (a lot) and I was pitiful !

He then took a job in a sawmill in Clatskanie, Oregon, a little town alongside the Columbia River. I was born there, and my mother has a picture of my dad standing in front of the gate to the mill, proudly holding me up to face the camera. My bonnet is on crooked and about to come untied. His hat is pushed back on his forehead, and he's wearing a big grin. Was he going in to work or just finishing his shift? It doesn't matter. In either case, he had a job and a family. These were his salad days. -Raymond Carver -What is the main point of this paragraph?

I began working in journalism when I was eight years old. It was my mother's idea. She wanted me to "make something" of myself and, after a levelheaded appraisal of my strengths, decided I had better start young if I was to have any chance of keeping up with the competition. The flaw in my character which she had already spotted was the lack of "gumption." My idea of a perfect afternoon was lying in front of the radio rereading my favorite Big Little Book, Dick Tracy Meets Stooge Viller. My mother despised inactivity. Seeing me having a good time in repose, she was powerless to hide her disgust. "You've got no more gumption than a bump on a log," she said. "Get out in the kitchen and help Doris do those dirty dishes." -Russell Baker -List and answer the six journalistic questions.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Why is it important that this event happened on the narrator's birthday?

Which of the following choices properly explains the organization typically used in narration?