Study Guide for Language Arts Test
“Harrison Bergeron” Comprehension Questions
1. Who was the Handicapper General?
2. Who were the Bergerons? Describe Hazel and George.
3. Who is Harrison?
4. What does Harrison do that cost him his life?
5. What problem(s) have been solved by the Handicapper General?
“Rules of the Game” Comprehension Questions
1. What challenges does she face with her mother?
2. How is she treated differently in her family unit as it relates to the other children?
3. What does chess symbolize for her? For her family?
4. How does she hurt her mother?
5. What do her names mean (Waverly and Mei-Mei)?
6. Describe the challenges her mother/parents face in the U.S.
“Red Scarf Girl” Comprehension Questions
1. What was the Chinese Cultural Revolution?
a. Describe the Red Guard.
b. When did the revolution take place?
c. What were the four olds?
d. Identify things that were destroyed during the revolution.
e. Who was the leader?
2. How was Jiang and her family impacted?
3. What was the tough choice young Jiang was asked to make?
Identify and construct a variety of sentence structures: complex, simple and compound sentences.
Identify figurative language in all selections: Similes, Metaphors, and Personification
Vocabulary from Harrison Bergeron
Unceasing
Vigilance
Handicap
Vague
Notion
Envious
Bargain
Impediment
Hideous
Luminous
Calibrated
Hindrances
Tremendous
Consternation
Uprooted
Hobbled
Delicacy
Merely
Gravely
Neutral (ing)