Question: Skill Categories, Skills, and Scores
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Question: Passage: Sestina Like
Answer: Questions: 1 – 4
Skill 6.B: 1/1
Skill 6.A: 1/1
Skill 6.B: 1/1
Skill 3.C: 1/1
Question: Sestina Like
Question 1: In lines 1-2, the speaker describes “Like” as a “semi-demi goddess” primarily to emphasize the . . .
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Question: Sestina Like
Question 2: The simile in lines 21-22 (“like . . . subtitles”) primarily serves to illustrate . . .
Answer: A. how crucial the word “like” is to people’s ability to communicate with each other
————————————————-Reasoning: The simile emphasizes how people are so dependent on the word “like” in conversation that they cannot communicate without it.
Question: Sestina Like
Question 3: In lines 26-27 (“Displaces . . . nest”), the metaphor of “endangered hatchlings” suggests that “Like”
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Question: Sestina Like
Question 4: The repetition of versions of the word “like” at the end of each line of the poem does all of the following EXCEPT . . .
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Question: Passage: Mending Wall
Answer: Questions: 5 – 10
Skill 5.B:
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Skill 3.D:
Skill 6.A:
Skill 5.B:
Skill 1.A: 0/1
Question: Mending Wall
Question 5: In line 6, “them” refers to . . .
Answer: D. “hunters” (line 5)
————————————————-Reasoning: “Them” in “I have come after them” refers to the “hunters,” whose “work” is the intentional dislodging of stones described in lines 7-9.
Question: Mending Wall
Question 6: How does the speaker’s repetition of the neighbor’s cherished belief about the importance of walls (lines 27 and 45) convey the poem’s criticism of an undesirable social pattern?
Answer: E. The speaker treats the neighbor’s words about fences as evidence of a world view that is closed-minded in general.
————————————————-Reasoning: The speaker treats the neighbor’s words about fences as evidence of a world view that is closed-minded in general.
Question: Mending Wall
Question 7: Line 28 (“Spring . . . wonder”) most clearly marks a shift in the speaker’s focus from the practical task at hand to . . .
Answer: D. speculation about the nature of fences and boundaries
————————————————-Reasoning: In this line, the speaker shifts from a practical description of mending the fences to speculation about the nature of fences and boundaries in a metaphorical sense.