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Variety of different ethnic or cultural groups.
diversity
Unrelated; out of place
discordant
Having multiple parts or aspects
pluralistic
People who are the offspring of an ancestor
descendants
descendants of a particular individual or ethnic group
stock
Intermingled; combined
interwoven
Group of people that differs in some way from the larger population.
minority
Process of becoming a citizen.
naturalization
Group of people inside a political party, club, government, etc, working against another group
factions
Process of adapting to the culture of an adopted country.
assimilation
My chores were a mountain waiting to be climbed.
a) Simile
b) Hyperbole
c) Metaphor
c) Metaphor
The cake was ten stories tall.
a) Hyperbole
b) Metaphor
c) Simile
a) Hyperbole
Sandy, pointing to the constellation, exclaimed, “That’s Orion’s belt!”
a) participial phrase
b) absolute phrase
a) participial phrase
Gerald is like a pesky housefly that keeps coming around again and again.
a) Hyperbole
b) Metaphor
c) Simile
c) Simile
She called the editor to voice her opinion.
a) To voice her opinion
b) called the editor
c) To voice
d) called the editor to voice her opinion
a) To voice her opinion
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, and to South Carolina, go to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, and to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
a) Parallel structure
b) Non-parallel structure
Non-parallel structure
The storm now over, we went outside and began to clean up the mess.
a) participial phrase
b) absolute phrase
b) absolute phrase
Dana’s desire to do well made Mama proud.
a) To do
b) desire to do well
c) desire to do well made Mama proud
d) To do well
d) To do well
Kurt Vonnegut’s short stories have suspense, style, and insight.
a) Parallel structure
b) Non-parallel structure
a) Parallel structure
What's the Infinitive phrase of the next sentence?
We choose to take the old footpath.
a) To take
b) The old footpath
c) to take the old footpath
d) to take the old
c) to take the old footpath
What traumatic event changes the seventh man's life?
1.- The day there was a terrible typhoon.
2.- The death of his father.
3.- The moment that his best friend in all his life, K. was swallowed by a wave when a typhoon arrived at the narrator’s hometown.
4.- Because sometimes K. got involved and so concentrated in something at the point that he forgot everything else, and he didn’t actually hear the narrator’s voice.
3.- The moment that his best friend in all his life, K. was swallowed by a wave when a typhoon arrived at the narrator’s hometown.
Why does the seventh man's father allow him to go outside during the storm?
1.- Because the father knew that the narrator would have to go outside with his friend K.
2.- Since they were at that moment at the eye of the storm, it was calm.
3.- Because the father didn't care about the narrator going outside at the moment of the storm.
4.- Because the storm wasn't strong.
2.- Since they were at that moment at the eye of the storm, it was calm.
At the beach, why doesn't K. respond when his friend calls out to him?
1.- Because K. didn't care about what his friend was saying.
2.- Because K. didn't believe to his friend about what he was saying, so he ignored him.
3.- Because K. was too far away from the narrator, and the narrator didn't shout loud enough, so K. couldn't listen to the Seventh Man.
4.- Because sometimes K. got involved and so concentrated in something at the point that he forgot everything else, and he didn’t actually hear the narrator’s voice.
4.- Because sometimes K. got involved and so concentrated in something at the point that he forgot everything else, and he didn’t actually hear the narrator’s voice.
What does the Seventh Man see inside the second wave?
1.- A big water monster.
2.- K. coming out of the water with a smiley face from ear to ear.
3.- The parents of K.
4.- Himself.
2.- The narrator saw K. coming out of the water with a smiley face from ear to ear.
What does the Seventh Man do when he returns to his home town that shows he has finally recovered from his traumatic experience?
1.- He got a feeling to start all over again, even if he was maybe too old, but he was happy because he had forgotten the nightmare that followed him all his life and then remembers the good things about his friend.
2.- He went to talk to his parents at the point that his parents convinced him a made him forget the nightmare that was following him all his life
3.- He saw K. as a spirit.
4.- He realized that he had nothing left to do about the death of his friend, so he decided to forget that and start his life all over again.
1.- He got a feeling to start all over again, even if he was maybe too old, but he was happy because he had forgotten the nightmare that followed him all his life and then remembers the good things about his friend.