Main Ideas
Org. Patterns
Inferences
POV/Facts & Opinion
Story Details
100
The central message an author is trying to convey to the reader is known as
What is the main idea
100
The transitional word HOWEVER indicates which pattern? addition, summary, contrast, or definition?
What is contrast
100
What inference can be made when Irene says that instead of seeing a baby thrown in the air, she changes the image to a bird?
The image is overwhelming/ she is haunted by the war
100
Another word for the author's point of view is
What is bias
100
What was decided to do about Ida?
What is allow her to continue the pregnancy
200
Another name for the main idea is
What is topic sentence (paragraph) or thesis statement (essay)
200
Which organizational pattern shows a relationship where one situation results in another?
What is cause and affect
200
The word inference means
educated guess
200
Is the following an example of fact or opinion? Irene's favorite group of people to speak to was high school students
What is fact
200
What was worse than rape?
What is sleeping with the major willingly
300
Why wasn't Irene reunited with her family at the end of the war?
some were in hiding and some were dead
300
Which organizational pattern is indicated by words such as moreover, in addition, and furthermore?
What is addition
300
When Father Joseph says "God knows what you are doing with that dorozka today," you can infer
he knows about her assisting the Jews in the forest and will not tell on her
300
Is the following an example of fact or opinion? Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945
What is fact
300
at most, Irene hid how many people at the major's house?
What is 12
400
Irene asks Janek not to go on the mission just before their wedding but Janek responds by
going. He is killed.
400
The pattern that describes how objects are positioned in relation to one another is known as
spatial order
400
When the major pauses before leaving Irene in the motel room, what can you infer about this?
He knows he will never see her again
400
Is the following an example of fact or opinion? Irene should have gone to Israel if that was what she really wanted to do.
What is opinion
400
Irene pretends to be first German, then Russian, and finally what ?
What is Jewish
500
William Opdyke becomes Irene's
husband
500
If an author had complex or complicated information that could be broken down into smaller cagetorgies, the best pattern to use to present the information would be
What is classification
500
In the passage about mice in a cheese shop being watched over by a sleeping cat, who can you infer is being described?
The Jews and Rugemer
500
The purpose that aims to change the readers' opinion is called
What is persuasion
500
Irene's tone shifts after Janek's death, from happy and passionate to
What is angry, reckless, and depressed