Reading Quiz on “Melting Pot” by Anna Quindlen
Quiz by Mary Maiden
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- Q1What is the point of view for this selection?First-personNone of the aboveSecond-personThird-person30s
- Q2The author's choice of this point of view helps the author—distract the readerprovide personal experiences and detailsuse bigger wordsfocus only on quotes30s
- Q3What genre of writing best fits this selection?BiographyFictionPersonal essayHorror30s
- Q4Read the following excerpt from the selection: "The letters in the local weekly tabloid suggest that everybody hates everybody else here, and on a macro level they do." In this excerpt from paragraph 2, the author uses the phrase "on a macro level" to meanon a small scale or in a narrow senseon a large scale or in a broad sensethe first floor of a buildingnever-ending30s
- Q5According to the selection, why are the professionals particularly tired of being blamed for the rising rents?They refuse to pay themThey do not control the pricingThey are constantly evicting people from their homesThey are the ones paying them30s
- Q6What reason does the author give for her family being friendly with the Ecuadorians, Yugoslavs, and the Italians?Their children's friendshipsAll of the aboveThey all arrived at the same timeThey all work at the same place30s
- Q7Read the following excerpt from the selection: "My first apartment in New York was in a gritty warehouse district, the kind of place that makes your parents wince." Using context clues, what definition most likely matches the word gritty as it is used in the excerpt above?Fine and elegantExclusive and refinedExpensive and luxuriousHarsh and unpleasant30s
- Q8Read the following excerpt from the selection: "… a dozen elderly men, men who had known one another since they were boys sitting together on this same corner …" What can the reader most reasonably infer based on this excerpt from paragraph 4?None of the aboveThe men wanted to travel and see the worldThe men lived far away from that cornerThe men grew up together30s
- Q9Read the following excerpt from the selection: "You're not one of them," one of the men explained. "You're one of me." What can the reader most reasonably infer the man meant by his words to the author?He feels like she is an outsiderHe does not consider her a friendHe does not want her to feel welcomedHe feels like she is part of his group30s
- Q10The author uses the phrase, " . . .either an interloper or a longtime resident" toexaggerate something for effectcompare two thingsgive living qualities to non living thingsuse a word that imitates the sound it describes30s
- Q11According to the selection, for whom does the green-grocer stock mangoes?The EcuadoriansThe YugoslavsThe ItaliansThe Indians30s
- Q12In paragraph 6, the author uses the phrase "sometimes the baby slips out with the bath water" to mean —sometimes the good things go out with the bad thingssometimes things just happen for no reasonnone of the abovethere was poor hygiene in those days30s
- Q13Read the following excerpt from the selection: "About a third of the people in the neighborhood think of squid as calamari, about a third think of it as sushi, and about a third think of it as bait." The author most likely included this excerpt for the purpose of—illustrating the popularity of seafood in New Yorkboth a & billustrating the serious conflicts between people and their culturesillustrating how different cultures use the same thing uniquely30s
- Q14Read the following excerpt from the selection: "… we live in a pressure cooker: oil and water …" What type of figurative language is being used?IdiomSimilePersonificationOnomatopoeia30s
- Q15The author uses the figurative language in the previous question to illustrate that —there is only peace and harmony in the communityshe refuses to accept outsiders into her groupthe people do not mix wellshe does not like where she lives30s