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EOG Review HW #6- RL.7.3
Due: Thursday, April 30
Part 1: Vocabulary Words
Directions: Circle the key words in the question and define them.
1. How does Jack’s role in the story change from the beginning of the selection to the end?
2. Which statement from the selection shows that the family is in a new location?
3. How does the setting of the story affect Jack’s father’s decision to use the lobster’s pool to move the casks?
4. What is the effect of Jack’s role changing throughout the story?
5. How does the family’s circumstances impact the plot?
Excerpt from Swiss Family Robinson: “Jack’s Find” by Johann Wyss
I was anxious to land the two casks1 that were floating alongside our boat, but on attempting to do so, I found that I
could not get them up the bank on which we had landed, and was therefore determined to look for a more convenient spot.
As I did so, I was startled by hearing Jack shouting for help, as though in great danger. He was at some distance, and I
hurried toward him with a hatchet in my hand.
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The little fellow stood screaming in a deep pool, and as I approached, I saw that a huge lobster had caught his leg
in its powerful claw. Poor Jack was in a terrible fright; kick as he would, his enemy still clung on. I waded into the water and,
seizing the lobster firmly by the back, managed to make it loosen its hold, and we brought it safe to land.
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Jack, having speedily recovered his spirits, and anxious to take such a prize to his mother, caught the lobster in
both hands, but instantly received such a severe blow from its tail that he flung it down and passionately hit the creature with
a large stone.
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This display of temper vexed2 me. “You are acting in a very childish way, my son,” said I. “Never strike an enemy in
a revengeful spirit, or when the enemy is unable to defend itself. The lobster, it is true, gave you a bite, but then you, on
your part, intend to eat the lobster. So the game is at least equal. Next time, be both more prudent 3 and more merciful.”
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(5) Once more lifting the lobster, Jack ran triumphantly towards the tent. “Mother, mother! A lobster! A lobster,
Ernest! Look here, Franz! Mind, he’ll bite you! Where’s Fritz?” All came crowding round Jack and his prize, wondering at its
unusual size, and Ernest wanted his mother to make lobster soup directly, by adding it to what she was now boiling.
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She, however, begged to decline making any such experiment and said she preferred cooking one dish at a time.
Having remarked that the scene of Jack’s adventure afforded a convenient place for getting my casks on shore, I returned
thither4 and succeeded in drawing them up on the beach, where I set them on end, and for the present left them.
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On my return, I resumed the subject of Jack’s lobster and told him he should have the offending claw all to himself
when it was ready to be eaten, congratulating him on being the first to discover anything useful.
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1casks:
a barrel-like container
irritated
3prudent: wise; careful
4thither: to or toward that place
2vexed:
1. How does the family’s circumstances impact the plot?
a. The lobster’s bite makes Jack behave cruelly.
c. The family’s hunger forces Jack to search for food.
b. The lobster serves as both food and a lesson.
d.The parents are nearby to protect Jack and the others.
2. Which statement from the selection shows that the family is in a new location?
a. “He was at some distance, and I hurried toward him with a hatchet in my hand.”
b. “Jack . . . anxious to take such a prize to his mother, caught the lobster in both hands.”
c. “All came crowding round Jack and his prize, wondering at its unusual size.”
d. “On my return, I . . . . [was] congratulating him on being the first to discover anything useful.”
3. How does Jack’s role in the story change from the beginning of the selection to the end?
a. Jack goes from being the victim of the lobster to being the lobster’s victor.
b. Jack goes from making his father angry by being silly to being the family hero.
c. Jack goes from being a nuisance to being the prize winner at the family dinner.
d. Jack goes from being the little boy in the family to being the hero of the family.
4. Which statement shows the purpose of the introduction of the other characters in paragraph 5?
a. to show the general excitement over the lobster
b.to show that Jack can provide food for his family
c. to show how many characters there are in the story
d. to show that Jack is the youngest of several children
5. How does the setting of the story affect Jack’s father’s decision to use the lobster’s pool to move the casks?
a. The family has landed on a beach, and the casks are too large to lift out of the water
b. The family is concerned that nighttime will come, and the casks will float away from the boat.
c. The family has landed on a beach, and the weight of the casks may pull the boat back out to sea.
d. The family is concerned that the salt water will ruin the contents of the casks if they are not moved to land.