DIRECTIONS: Read the selection, and answer the following questions.

The Tropics in New York
Claude McKay

Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root,
Cocoa in pods and alligator pears,°
And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit,
Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs,

5 Set in the window, bringing memories
Of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills,
And dewy dawns, and mystical blue skies
In benediction° over nun-like hills.

My eyes grew dim, and I could no more gaze;
10 A wave of longing through my body swept,
And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,
I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.


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2. alligator pears: avocados, tropical fruits. All the foods mentioned in this stanza grow in Jamaica, the Caribbean island where the poet was born.
6. rills: streams; brooks.
8. benediction: blessing.


The title of the poem, “The Tropics in New York,” is ironic because —
a.
it is a very unusual title for a poem
b.
sometimes it gets extremely hot in New York
c.
we don’t expect to find the tropics in New York
d.
the weather is a lot nicer in the tropics

Answer:

The title of the poem is ironic because C) we don’t expect to find the tropics in New York.

Explanation:

The title is oxymoron because as we know tropics never grew in New York and never will.

Which of the following best describes the purpose of a search engine? (5 points)
a
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It is an engine that runs on reliable information.
It is the box where you type in what you are looking for.
It is the list of websites that appears once you press "search."
It searches through the Internet and finds websites that match your subject.
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Od

Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.


I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.



Which central idea is developed and supported by this passage?


A) Hypocrisy in religion is used to justify slavery.


B) Justice for enslaved people is impossible.


C) An enslaved person is treated no better than an animal.


D) Keeping people enslaved makes slaveholders inhuman.

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Now Young made a leap of the imagination. It was like the inspired hunches that have led so many of the great advances in science and technology over the ages.

Which best describes this excerpt?

It is biased because it reflects an attitude about one of Thomas Young’s ideas.
It is biased because it reflects a negative attitude about technology.
It is unbiased because it discusses the great advances in technology.
It is unbiased because it discusses Thomas Young’s active imagination.

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a Simple
b Compound
c Complex
d. Compound complex

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A)
She dislikes spiders.
B)
She is miffed by spiders.
She is annoyed by spiders
D
She is terrified of spiders.

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A

The banker will pay the lawyer two million

dollars to spend fifteen years in solitary

confinement.


B

The lawyer will pay the banker two million

dollars if he can't stay in solitary confinement

for five years.


C The lawyer must spend anywhere between five

and fifteen years in solitary confinement.


D The banker and the lawyer will attempt to see

who can last the longest in solitary

confinement.

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The quilt described in the passage above is symbolic of ____________.