ANSWER KEY
Part A – Poetry (20%)
Answer Questions 1 to 5 according to Poem One. (13 marks)
1. What does the speaker imagine to be in the poem? (1 mark)
A bird (1 mark).
2. “Streets like lines on a map.” What poetic device is used? (1 mark)
simile (1 mark).
3. Who is “taking one wild step into air”? Explain the meaning of this line. (2 marks)
a baby bird/the children of the speaker (1 mark). This means doing something for the
first time without a parent’s help/any reasonable answers (1 mark).
4. List three examples of alliteration you can find in the poem. (3 marks)
wild world; like lines; top of trees; between grass blades; one wild (any three, 3
marks)
5. Choose the best answer for each of the following questions. (6 marks)
a. This poem is mainly about _______________.
A.
B.
C.
D.
pulling worms out of mud
streets like lines on a map
what it would be like to be a bird
looking down on the tops of trees
C
b. Which of these is not mentioned in the poem?
A.
B.
C.
D.
streets
a worm
birds’ eggs
a bird’s nest
C
c. Which of these is mentioned first in the poem?
A.
B.
C.
D.
A nest
A window
A baby bird
A neighborhood
B
d. A cottonwood is probably a kind of _______________.
A.
B.
C.
D.
car
tree
bird
cloth
B
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e. According to this speaker, birds are _______________.
A.
B.
C.
D.
free
busy
confused
endangered
A
f. Which of these would be a good word to put at the end of the poem’s title?
A.
B.
C.
D.
bird
tree
map
worm
A
Answer Questions 6 to 8 according to Poem Two. (7 marks)
6. According to the first stanza, how many families is the speaker referring to and how
are they different? (3 marks)
Two (1 mark). The family on the right are very quiet (1 mark), but they family on the
left always clatter and sometimes even shout (1 mark).
7. Write down the rhyming pattern for the first three stanzas of the poem. (3 marks)
First Stanza: AABB (1 mark) Second Stanza: AACC (1 mark) Third Stanza: AADD (1
mark)
8. Circle the correct word in the following sentence: (1 mark)
Figurative/Literal language is used throughout the poem.
Part B – Short Stories (30 marks)
Answer the questions in this part according to “The Scream” and “Ali Baba and the
Forty Thieves”.
I. True or False (9 marks)
Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
It was the second time for Eliza to be in a drama class.
Eliza’s medication for eczema was helpful for her.
Eliza knew some of her classmates from last year in grade six.
According to Todd, Eliza fell down five stairs because he kicked her.
Ali Baba went to the mountain with his two donkeys on the day he
discovered the forty thieves.
As soon as he got inside the cave, Ali Baba saw a lot of gold.
At one point, Kasim considered asking Ali Baba to go to the mountain
with him.
Marjana paid the shoemaker some gold to make Kasim become one
piece again.
“Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” teaches us not to be happy with what
we have.
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T or F
F
F
T
F
T
T
F
T
F
II. Multiple Choices (9 marks)
Choose the correct answer for each of the following MC questions.
1.
Which of the following roles had NOT been played by Melissa?
A. Baby Bear in The Three Bears
B. The queen in Sleeping Beauty
C. The witch in Hansel and Gretel
D. The Snowflake Queen in the grade six Christmas pageant
2.
Which of the following never happened in “The Scream”?
A. Todd breaking into a Tarzan yell
B. Eliza trying to run away from Mrs. Pentila
C. Students taking their shoes off
D. Students walking in a circle
3.
B
“This is going to be a blast – no homework or books. Just do plays and
stuff.” Todd said. “Blast” means…
A. recess
B. trouble
C. mistake
D. good time
6.
D
What did Ali Baba do for a living?
A. Running a shop
B. Stealing gold
C. Being a woodcutter
D. Fixing shoes
7.
A
Which of the following did Mrs. Pentila ask students to do?
A. to dance like ballerinas
B. to walk like kings and queens
C. to take their socks off
D. to stand up and greet her
5.
B
Why did Mrs. Pentila walk with a limp?
A. She had polio.
B. She was very ill.
C. Her feet were injured in an accident.
D. She was pretending to be a handicapped person.
4.
B
C
Kasim went to the mountain with _____ donkeys.
A. 10
B. 12
C. 15
D. 20
D
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8.
Which of the following events happened first in “Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves”?
A. Kasim being cut into four pieces
B. Kasim saying “Open, cave!”
C. Kasim saying “Open, mountain!”
D. Kasim being killed by the thieves
9.
B
Kasim’s wife asked __________ to help her look for her husband.
A. Marjana
B. The Shoemaker
C. Ali Baba
D. Ali Baba’s wife
C
III. Short Questions (16 marks)
Answer the following questions with short answers.
1. How do we know that Melissa had much more experience in drama than Eliza did?
(2 marks)
Eliza had never been in a drama class (1 mark) but Melissa had already been in
other plays before (1 mark).
2. “Eliza wasn’t on friendly term with mirrors.” What does this sentence mean? (2
marks)
She does not like mirrors (1 mark). She doesn’t like looking at herself/what she looks
like (1 mark).
3. How did Eliza feel after her scream? (2 marks)
She felt great (1 mark) and almost proud of herself (1 mark).
4. Where did Ali Baba put the firewood after he had taken the gold from the cave? Why
do you think he did so? (2 marks)
He put the firewood on the top of the (two bags of) gold (1 mark) so that he could
hide the gold under the firewood (1 mark).
5. Why did Kasim go to Ali Baba’s place? (2 marks)
Ali Baba’s wife had told Kasim’s wife they were going to be rich (1 mark), so he
wanted to find out why (1 mark).
6. Why did Marjana go to the doctor? (2 marks)
She pretended that she wanted some medicine (to make Kasim better) (1 mark) so
that people would think he was sick (1 mark).
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