SFch1-8
Before beginning this open-book quiz, please create a new document, copy/paste this text into it, and SAVE this file so that the name looks like this: PER TITLE NAME. A student named Vanessa Williams in 3rd period would save her file as 3 SFch1-8 Vanessa Williams. Save it to your desktop, then move it to your network home-share folder, and finally, when it’s complete, move it into my dropbox.
This is to be written in complete sentences. You will only have class time on Wednesday to work on it, and if you haven’t done the reading, you won’t have time to complete the work required.
1. “Shhh, shhh, shhh” . . . then “We did it, Mama!”
a. what had the two children just done?
b. why did they have to wash their hands (and especially so, since it was time to eat?)
2. “Get that filthy child off my table!”
a. why was Mistress Carol so angry at seeing Ellie’s son?
b. why didn’t anybody ever talk about Benjamin’s coloring?
3. “Church wasn’t a building”
a. what was it, then?
b. why not in a building?
c. where else did they worship?
4. “Ann had cried so many tears . . . she didn’t think she had any left.”
a. why had that happened to Joseph?
b. why had Richard been so ready to fight?
5. “No. There’s something in it I’ve never tasted before.”
a. what was in it?
b. why did Richard give them pumpkin pudding in the first place?
6. “there stood Benjamin, sobbing and shuddering in a pool of urine.”
a. what had happened to Ellie?
b. why had that happened?
c. what was to become of Benjamin?
7. Richard was “looking at the scene not with disdain or even curiosity, but with longing.”
a. what did Ann’s family have that Richard’s family didn’t?
b. what created a happy family scene?
8. “Gone . . . Sold . . . to Alabama.”
a. why are these words hard for Tom to say? (it will take a paragraph to properly answer this question)
