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Life Doesn't Frighten Me?

Quiz by Lauren Philbert

Grade 7
ELAR (2009)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

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  • Q1

    Which of the following inferences best explains why the speaker uses repetition in the final two stanzas of the poem?

    She has changed her mind about all of the things which previously had not frightened her.

    She is attempting to convince herself that the repeated phrase is true.

    She is trying to guarantee that one of these phrases will be the title of the poem.

    She has finally come up with something which frightens her.

    300s
  • Q2

    The fifth stanza (lines 13-20) adds to the development of the poem mainly by ______. 

    I go boo

    Make them shoo

    I make fun

    Way they run

    I won't cry

    So they fly

    I just smile

    They go wild

    showing how things can frighten the narrator when they appear in her dreams.

    moving away from the rhyming couplets that begin the first three stanzas.

    introducing how the speaker fights back against all her potential fears.

    offering the first instance of any first-person pronoun in the poem

    300s
  • Q3

    Which of these inferences is best supported by the text?

    All of the ideas that do not frighten the speaker are fantastical and from fairy tales.

    The speaker is upset at her teachers for not protecting her from the dangers of the world.

    The speaker is helpless against all of the things in the world which try to frighten her.

    The speaker of the poem is a young girl.

    300s
  • Q4

    Which lines from the text most strongly supports your answer to question 3?

    I've got a magic charm/That I keep up my sleeve

    That new classroom where/Boys all pull my hair

    Not at all/Not at all

    Though guys fight/All alone at night

    300s
  • Q5

    Which meaning of charm most closely matches it's meaning in the following passage:

    I've got a magic charm

    That I keep up my sleeve

    I can walk the ocean floor

    And never have to breathe.

    noun-the power or quality of giving delight or arousing admiration

    verb-control or achieve by or as if by magic

    verb-delight greatly

    noun-an object or saying believed to have special power

    300s

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