Gold Literature Test Three
Meimei’s mother believes it’s important for
her daughter to figure out the chess rules
herself to
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compete successfully in America
Meimei tell her mother she doesn’t want to
play in the local tournament because “they
would have American rules” as a strategy
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so her mother will let her play.
Meimei finds Mrs. Jong’s behavior in the
shops so embarrassing because Meimei
feels she is being paraded around
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to make her mother look good.
The statement that represents the principal
cause of conflict between Meimei and Mrs.
Jong is “Meimei understands
___________________________”; Mrs.
Jong does not.
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and wants to live by “American rules
The real significance of Meimei’s
success for her mother is that Meimei
achieves the success within the
American system
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that her mother cannot.
The girl in “Checkouts” is unhappy at
the beginning of the story because
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she has been forced to
move.
When the narrator of “Checkouts” says, “It is a
difficult work, suffering, and in its
own way, a kind of art,” she means the girl is
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exaggerating her grief.
The girl likes to shop for groceries because she
can be
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alone with her thoughts.
When the narrator says that it was not
safe for the girl’s parents to know her
inner thoughts, she means the girl felt that
her
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parents could not understand her.
She wants to see the bag boy again
because his awkwardness __________
with her perfect house.
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contrasts
The irony of the ending of “Checkouts” is
that they never get together and
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she adjusts easily.
At the beginning of the poem, the
narrator of “Fifteen” finds a
wrecked but
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running motorcycle.
The boy in “Fifteen” considers
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riding off on the motorcycle.
The speaker in “Sympathy” __________
how the caged bird feels.
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understands
In “Sympathy,” the bird beating its wings against
the bars of the cage is a symbol of
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useless struggle.
The “dawn-bright lawn” in “Caged Bird”
symbolizes
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a new beginning.
The speaker in “We never know how
high we are” believes that dreaming
enables us to
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achieve greatness.
In “We never know how high we are,” the
skies symbolize
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limitless possibility.
In In My Place, many white students reacted
to Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s first day on the
University of Georgia campus by forming
mobs and
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staging a riot.
At the beginning of the story, Ulrich is portrayed
as angry and
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hoping to find his enemy.
Suspecting that ________________ in the
forest prompted Ulrich to go into the woods on
the night of the story.
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Georg would be poaching
The result of an internal conflict is that Ulrich
_________________ Georg when they meet.
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does not shoot
Ulrich and Georg’s feelings toward each
other change during the story

from hatred to
friendship.
Ulrich _______________ when he
sees the figures coming down the hill.
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cries out in joy
The first indication that the men may end
the feud is that Ulrich offers Georg
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a drink of his wine.
The cause of conflict between the von Gradwitz
family and the Znaeym family is a land dispute,
and the effect of this conflict is
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years of feuding between the families.
An example of external conflict is when
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Ulrich threatens Georg.
When Michener first views Zaqir’s rugs he
notices right away that they are
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strikingly beautiful.
Readers can infer from Zaqir’s repeated visits to
Michener’s hotel that Zaqir is
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persistent.
Zaqir is willing to give Michener the rugs and
wait for payment. This reveals that Zaqir is
_________ and able to recognize an honest
person.
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trusting
Michener has no checks and feels distressed that
he cannot accept Zaqir’s bargain price for four
rugs. His distress shows Zaqir’s abilities as a
salesperson.
Michener had been totally against buying rugs,
but Zaqir is _____________ in just a few days.
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able to change his mind
The details from the story reveals Michener’s
trust in Zaqir because over the course of five
years, he continues to send payments for the
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shipment of the rugs.
The reason for Zaqir’s delay in depositing the
check was that he was using the check
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as an advertisement.
The rugs seem to hold special meaning for
Michener because they
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remind him of Zaqir.
The speaker in Gladys Cardiff’s “Combing”
considers women’s relationships while
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combing her daughter’s hair.
The best explanation of the meaning of
“Combing” is that through acts as simple as
combing hair, women are
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bound to each other through time.
When Walker writes about how women led
“Across mined / Fields / Boobytrapped / Ditches” she is referring to the danger
of pursuing education
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in the segregated South.
At the end of “Women,” the poet points out that
the women’s efforts toward education were all
the more remarkable because they _________
deeply without having it.
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valued education
In “maggie and milly and mollie and may,” when
“molly was chased by a horrible thing,” the thing
she saw was probably a
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crab.
When the speaker in “Astonishment” says “At
home, not in a nest,” she means why was I born
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human and not a bird?
When the speaker in “Astonishment” considers
her life after “many epochs of absence,” she
means that she was not ______________
before her life.
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here in all time
The point that the speaker of “Astonishment”
questions about her existence is its
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randomness.
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