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Excerpt From “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than
most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand
around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that
never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her
arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that
“no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You’ve no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has “made it” is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father,
tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to
curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other’s faces. Sometimes the mother and father
weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen
these programs.
Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft
seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson
who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She
pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers.
In real life I am a large, big boned woman with rough, man working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls
during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day,
breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One
winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before
nightfall.
But of course all this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter,
my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my
quick and witty tongue.
But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. . . . Dee, though. She would
always look anyone in the eye. Hesitation was no part
of her nature.
“How do I look, Mama?” Maggie says, showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse for me to know
she’s there, almost hidden by the door.
“Come out into the yard,” I say. Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own
a car, sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind to him? That is the way my Maggie walks. She has been like this, chin on
chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to the
ground.
Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure. She’s a woman now, though sometimes I forget. How long ago was it that
the other house burned? Ten, twelve years? Sometimes I can still hear the flames and feel Maggie’s arms sticking to me, her hair smoking
and her dress falling off her in little black papery flakes. Her eyes seemed stretched open, blazed open by the flames reflected in them.
And Dee. I see her standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look of concentration on her face as she
watched the last dingy gray board of the house fall in toward the red hot brick chimney. Why don’t you do a dance around the ashes? I’d
wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.
I used to think she hated Maggie, too. But that was before we raised money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school. She
used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks’ habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath
her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn’t necessarily need to know. Pressed us to
her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.
Dee wanted nice things. . .
Walker, Alice. “Everyday Use.”
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
, Harcourt, Orlando, 2004, pp 47-58. [Used according to 17 U.S. Code § 107 - Limitations on Exclusive Rights:
Fair Use (opens in a new window)
].
Read the excerpt from Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”; then answer the related questions.
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Question 1
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Question 2
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Question 3
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In paragraph two, the narrator describes Maggie’s attitude towards her sister to ____.
a.
create a mental image of the story’s setting
b.
advance the story's tone
c.
prepare readers for a surprise ending
d.
set up a significant problem/conflict
Correct
Your answer is correct.
In paragraph 8, the author uses a personal observation to emphasize ____.
a.
how much the mother despises Maggie in contrast to her close bond with Dee.
b.
the animalistic nature of Maggie in contrast to Dee’s natural grace.
c.
how much Maggie despises Mama in contrast to Dee’s admiration for Mama.
d.
the shy, vulnerable nature of Maggie in contrast to the description of Dee in the paragraph that follows.
Correct
Your answer is correct.
Which statement best identifies the significance of the problem that is established in the excerpt?
a.
The strained relationship between the daughters emphasizes the need for gender equity in society.
b.
The physical differences between Maggie and Dee along with their different values create an emotional divide in the
family.
Correct
c.
The use of the Johnny Carson Show creates a tone of nostalgia from the speaker as she reflects on her life and successful daughters.
d.
The use of vivid imagery emphasizes the theme of triumph of the human spirit.
Your answer is correct.
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Question 4
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Question 5
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By using vivid descriptions of characters and dialogue throughout the text, the author ____.
a.
creates a tone of melancholy and emphasizes the message that time is fleeting.
b.
engages the audience by enabling them to “see,” “hear,” and connect with the characters and story’s theme.
Correct
c.
creates a tone of nonchalance and emphasizes Maggie’s and Dee’s unique beauty .
d.
engages the audience by making them recognize their own faults and tendency to stereotype.
Your answer is correct.
Read the statement from Sojourner Truth in her famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” noting the italicized section. Then, answer the related
question.
“I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard
me! And ain't I a woman?
"
Truth, Sojourner. “Ain’t I a Woman?” Wikisource
, 1851. Retrieved from Wikisource (opens in a new window)
. [Public Domain].
If you are writing a speech about standing up against biased perspectives and you want to close with a call to action, which type of persuasive
sentence structure would be most effective?
a.
Hortative
Correct
b.
Inverted
c.
Perioidic
d.
Cumulative
Your answer is correct.
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From “A Dream of Her Grandfather” by Zitkála-Šá
Her grandfather was a Dakota "medicine man." Among the Indians of his day he was widely known for his successful healing work. He
was one of the leading men of the tribe and came to Washington, D.C., with one of the first delegations relative to affairs concerning the
Indian people and the United States government.
His was the first band of the Great Sioux Nation to make treaties with the government in the hope of bringing about an amicable
arrangement between the red and white Americans. The journey to the nation's capital was made almost entirely on pony-back, there
being no railroads, and the Sioux delegation was beset with many hardships on the trail. His visit to Washington, in behalf of peace
among men, proved to be his last earthly mission. From a sudden illness, he died and was buried here.
When his small granddaughter grew up she learned the white man's tongue, and followed in the footsteps of her grandfather to the
very seat of government to carry on his humanitarian work. Though her days were filled with problems for welfare work among her
people, she had a strange dream one night during her stay in Washington. The dream was this: Returning from an afternoon out, she
found a large cedar chest had been delivered to her home in her absence. She sniffed the sweet perfume of the red wood, which
reminded her of the breath of the forest,—and admired the box so neatly made, without trimmings. It looked so clean, strong and
durable in its native genuineness. With elation, she took the tag in her hand and read her name aloud. "Who sent me this cedar chest?"
she asked, and was told it came from her grandfather.
Wondering what gift it could be her grandfather wished now to confer upon her, wholly disregarding his death years ago, she was all
eagerness to open the mystery chest.
She remembered her childhood days and the stories she loved to hear about the unusual powers of her grandfather,—recalled how
she, the wee girl, had coveted the medicine bags, beaded and embroidered in porcupine quills, in symbols designed by the great
"medicine man," her grandfather. Well did she remember her merited rebuke that such things were never made for relics. Treasures came
in due time to those ready to receive them.
In great expectancy, she lifted the heavy lid of the cedar chest. "Oh!" she exclaimed, with a note of disappointment, seeing no beaded
Indian regalia or trinkets. "Why does my grandfather send such a light gift in a heavy, large box?" She was mystified and much perplexed.
The gift was a fantastic thing, of texture far more delicate than a spider's filmy web. It was a vision! A picture of an Indian camp, not
painted on canvas nor yet written. It was dream-stuff, suspended in the thin air, filling the inclosure of the cedar wood container. As she
looked upon it, the picture grew more and more real, exceeding the proportions of the chest. It was all so illusive a breath might have
blown it away; yet there it was, real as life,—a circular camp of white cone-shaped tepees, astir with Indian people. The village crier, with
flowing head-dress of eagle plumes, mounted on a prancing white pony, rode within the arena. Indian men, women and children
stopped in groups and clusters, while bright painted faces peered out of tepee doors, to listen to the chieftain's crier.
At this point, she, too, heard the full melodious voice. She heard distinctly the Dakota words he proclaimed to the people. "Be glad!
Rejoice! Look up, and see the new day dawning! Help is near! Hear me, every one."
She caught the glad tidings and was thrilled with new hope for her people.
Zitkala-Sa. “A Dream of Her Grandfather.” American Indian Stories. Project Gutenberg
, 1921. Retrieved from Project Gutenberg (opens in a new window)
. [Public Domain].
Read the excerpt from Zitkála-Šá’s “A Dream of Her Grandfather.” Then, answer the related questions.
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Question 6
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Question 7
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Which technique did Zitkala-Sa not use in the excerpt to establish context for her readers?
a.
She shares a dialogue between herself and her grandfather to establish the context on the topic of keeping treaties
with the government, thinking about how “she caught the glad tidings and was thrilled with new hope for her people.”
Correct
b.
She introduces a situation that suggests the theme of hope through “dream-stuff” where the vision of a peaceful, thriving Native
village exists.
c.
She details the setting to establish the context by introducing the history of the conflict “relative to the affairs concerning the Indian
people and the United States government.”
d.
She asks a question to establish context “wondering what gift it could be her grandfather wished to confer upon her and asking, “Why
does my grandfather send such a light gift in a heavy, large box?”
Your answer is correct.
Which statement best explains how Zitkala-Sa’s choices for establishing context are related to her perspective?
a.
The use of describing her grandfather’s role in the history of seeking justice for Native Americans establishes the
connection between the past and the present through her and her viewpoint as a granddaughter.
Correct
b.
The use of a situation establishes the historical context of conflict between Native Americans and the U.S. Government related to the
author’s first-person point of view.
c.
The use of a question establishes a mysterious context related to the author’s delight in receiving a surprise gift.
d.
The use of observing her grandfather’s gift as a dream rather than real shows the author’s negative view of the Native American hope
for justice.
Your answer is correct.
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Reread the excerpt from the passage; then, answer the related question.
The gift was a fantastic thing, of texture far more delicate than a spider's filmy web. It was a vision! A picture of an Indian camp, not
painted on canvas nor yet written.
Zitkala-Sa. “A Dream of Her Grandfather.” American Indian Stories. Project Gutenberg
, 1921. Retrieved from Project Gutenberg (opens in a new window)
. [Public Domain].
Which of the following statements accurately explains the author’s use of syntax to engage the reader?
a.
The author varies the syntax first with an imperative sentence, then a cumulative sentence, closing with a declarative sentence.
b.
The author varies the syntax first with an exclamatory sentence, then a hortative sentence, closing with an intentional fragment.
c.
The author varies the syntax first with a declarative sentence, then an exclamatory sentence, closing with an intentional
fragment.
Correct
d.
The author varies the syntax first with a declarative sentence, then an intentional fragment, closing with an exclamatory sentence.
Your answer is correct.