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Help me plz .
“Borders”
1. Why does Laetitia move away from home? (1 point)
She wants to live with her boyfriend.
She and her mother have a huge argument.
She is pregnant.
She is bored.
“Delfino II: Diez in the Desert”
2. The word __________ is used for someone who smuggles people across the Mexico- U.S. border. (1
point)
coyote
border patrolista
ranchera
cougar
3. The first thing that went wrong on Diez’s ill-fated trip was that _____. (1 point)
a woman became delirious and died
a rash struck those who had been slashed by cactus needles
Diez got in a fistfight with his coyote trainee
the group was spotted by a Border Patrol helicopter
“Mexicans Begin Jogging”
4. In the poem “Mexicans Begin Jogging,” why does the speaker run when the immigration officers raid
the factory where he works? (1 point)
He’s not a legal U.S. citizen.
He’s terrified that his boss will fire him if he does not.
He’s afraid of his fellow workers finding out he’s not an illegal like them.
His boss tells him to run, and he is on his boss’s time.
Choose the word or phrase that best matches the word in italics for questions 5–6.
5. [H]e had a confidence that protruded like a muscle beyond his thin physique… (1 point)
hurt
rubbed
caved in
stuck out
6. You extinguish them all, send them to the hospital. (1 point)
excite
turn on
quench
deliver
Poems Across the Divide
7. The neighbor of the speaker in the poem “Mending Wall” believes (1 point)
“good fences make good neighbors.”
“good neighbors make good fences.”
his wall will keep out wild animals and other predators.
his wall will make him forget what he fears.
8. Before he would build a wall, the speaker in “Mending Wall” would want to know (1 point)
what he was walling in or walling out.
who might be profiting from it.
what his family would think of it.
how effective it was going to be.
9. In “I Am the Land. I Wait.,” the speaker is (1 point)
an Italian woman.
an angry environmentalist.
some binoculars.
the land.
10. What is it that angers the speaker in the poem “I Am the Land. I Wait.”? (1 point)
the prospect of being chained and fenced
the idea of being cut into smaller parcels
the problem of getting people to conserve
the difficulties of writing “green” poetry
11. The speaker of the poem “Your World” goes from living in a small nest in a corner to (1 point)
being welcomed into a larger flock of birds.
being devoured by the family’s hungry cat.
soaring “to the uttermost reaches” of the sky.
thriving with other wildlife in a big airy barn.
“Hip-Hop Planet”, “Ka’Ba”, and “Harlem II”
12. According to McBride, the roots of hip-hop music began in (1 point)
West Africa centuries ago.
a 19th-century slave ship.
the streets of Harlem.
Puerto Rico and Jamaica.
13. Hip-hop music is a type of music that is (1 point)
popular wherever there is a large minority population.
globally popular.
popular in two places—West Africa and the Bronx.
steadily losing its popularity.
14. The tone of the poems “Ka’Ba” and “Harlem II” might be called (1 point)
bitter.
defeated.
optimistic.
syrupy.
Choose the word or phrase that best matches the word in italics for questions 15–16.
15. Dr. Smith had a rationale for giving his students “A’s”: he believed grades hindered learning. (1
point)
choice
promise
reason
manifesto
16. One affluent suburb decided to outlaw bus stops in its neighborhoods. (1 point)
backward
groomed
scheming
wealthy
17. What could save black people, according to poet Amiri Baraka? (1 point)
the “sacred words” that unloose their imaginations
rich benefactors in major cities
a socialist political system
discarding tired beliefs about racism
18. What images does Langston Hughes use in his poem “Harlem II”? (1 point)
raisins in the sun
festering sores
stinky, rotten meat
all of the above
19. In the story “Borders,” what answer will the mother not provide to the border guards? (1 point)
her tribal citizenship
her national citizenship
her last name in English
her last name in the Blackfoot language