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A Christmas Memory Multiple Choice Identify the choice that ruff completes the statement or answers the question. Comprebiddysion The questions below refer to the selection A Christmas Memory. ____1. chum salmon and his takeoff rocket keep their money a. at Mr. Haha Joness housec. interred in the pecan orchard b. in the local banks Christmas clubd. under a floorboard beneath the bed ____2. pal and his fri stopping point give fruitcakes to everyone except a. the relatives they live withc. people who visit them only once b. a bus driverd. president Roosevelt ____3.Which of the following statements best describes Buddys friend? a. Fashion is her passion. c. Big cities fascinate her. b. She has strong feelings about God. d. She spends a lot of time at the movies. ____4. Buddy compares his friend to a bantam hen because she is a. always poking her beak into thingsc. small and sprightly b. not very intelligentd. as flighty as a bird ____5. When it comes to his other relatives, Buddy a. barely acknowledges their existence b. feels very close to them c. is jealous of the attention they pay to his cousin d. feels that they offer him a lot of support ____6. Which adjective best applies to Buddys friend? a. unstablec. elegant b. generousd. cruel ____7. Which of the following items is not an activity that binds the two friends together? a. Flying kitesc. Making decorations b. Travelingd. imbibing whiskey ____8. Toward the end of the story, Buddy is separated from his friend. Why? a. He runs away from home. b. His friend is sent to the hospital to suffer her last illness. c. A letter from President Roosevelt invites Buddys friend to the White House. d. Buddy is sent to military school by his relatives. ____9. Which sentence tells you that Buddys friend has died? a. A good morning arrives . . . when she cannot rouse herself to exclaim Oh my, its fruitcake weather b. The other Buddy died in the 1880s, when she was still a child. c. I wrapped her in a han dsome Linen sheet and rode her in the buggy down to Simpsons pasture where she can be with all her Bones. d. Ill wager at the very end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. ____10. Which image from the story appeals to the sense of smell? a. sweet, oily, ivory meat mounts in the milk-glass bowl. b. A straw cartwheel corsaged with velvet roses out-of-doors has faded. . . . c. a hateful heap of bitter-odored pennies. d. words tumbling together into a wrathful tune. . . . Literary Focus The questions below refer to the selection A Christmas Memory. ____11. Which custom is a major separate of the find outting and mood of A Christmas Memory? a. Kissing under the mistletoec. Making and giving gifts b. Listening for Santa Clauss sleighd. Inviting friends to a Christmas party ____12. What is the difference between tone and mood? . They are synonyms there is no real difference. b. Tone expresses how an origin feels mood is how an author makes the reader feel. c. Tone appeals to the sense of hearing mood appeals to the sense of sight. d. Mood can be created through setting, but tone cannot. ____13. How are flapjacks and hominy grits part of the setting of A Christmas Memory? a. They show the traits and attitudes of the two main characters. b. The fact that they are described makes them part of the setting. c. They help show the customs of characters in a certain time and place. d. The images of these foods are so detailed, a reader can almost taste them. ____14. All of the following places are part of the setting of A Christmas Memory except a(n) a. forestc. attic b. riverside cafed. church Completion Complete each statement. Vocabulary Development On the line provided, print the word that best completes each sentence. inauguratingdilapidatedparaphernaliasacrilegiouscarnage prosaicdispositionexhilaratessuffusenoncommittal 15. The smells of baking and the freshly cut trees ____________________ the senescent kitchen. 16.Buddys friend has a s trong faith and never says anything ____________________. 17. Buddys friend might be considered ____________________ by some people, but he thinks she is the most special person on earth. 18. The ____________________ baby buggy serves them well. 19. Killing flies to earn money results in a ____________________ of bugs. Short Answer Constructed reception 20. Choose a favorite passage from A Christmas Memory. On a separate sheet of paper, identify its setting, and state what you think the mood of the passage is. Referring to particular proposition images, explain how the setting helps create that mood.A Christmas Memory Answer Section MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. autonomic nervous systemDPTS1OBJ9. 1. 1 (plot) 2. autonomic nervous systemAPTS1OBJ9. 1. 1 (plot) 3. ANSBPTS1OBJ9. 1. 4. 1 (characterization) 4. ANSCPTS1OBJ9. 1. 7. 7 (figurative language) 5. ANSAPTS1OBJ9. 1. 4. 2 (character interactions) 6. ANSBPTS1OBJ9. 1. 4. 1 (characterization) 7. ANSBPTS1OBJ9. 1. 4. 2 (character interactions) 8. ANSDPTS1OBJ9. 1. 1 (plot) 9. ANSAPTS1OBJ9. 2. 1. 11 (making inferences) 10. ANSCPTS1OBJ9. 1. 7. 8 (imagery) 11. ANSCPTS1OBJ9. 1. 3 (setting and mood/atmosphere) 12. ANSBPTS1OBJ9. 1. 3 (setting and mood/atmosphere) 9. . 7. 19 (tone) 13. ANSCPTS1OBJ9. 1. 3 (setting and mood/atmosphere) 14. ANSDPTS1OBJ9. 1. 3 (setting and mood/atmosphere) COMPLETION 15. ANSsuffuse PTS1OBJ9. 3. 3 (context clues) 16. ANSsacrilegious PTS1OBJ9. 3. 3 (context clues) 17. ANSprosaic PTS1OBJ9. 3. 3 (context clues) 18. ANSdilapidated PTS1OBJ9. 3. 3 (context clues) 19. ANScarnage PTS1OBJ9. 3. 3 (context clues) SHORT ANSWER 20. ANS Students responses will vary. A sample response follows A favorite passage of mine is the one in which Buddy and his friend shell pecans for their fruitcakes.Its set in the kitchen on a November morning after the characters have gathered the nuts in the woods. To me the mood is one of finding joy in the middle of a cold, lonely place. Other people dont seem to be around, but the kitc hen is warmed by the fire and filled with the characters joy and friendship. theres a contrast between light and dark in this paragraphthe rising moon and the fire on one hand, the growing iniquity of the night on the otherthat seems to me to show the delicate balance between happiness and loneliness in the characters.The image of the characters reflections in a dark mirror, alter with the rising moon, sum that up for me. In that dark mirror theres a hint of another moodthe bittersweet mood of the liberal Buddy looking nostalgically back at his childhood and a few precious moments, fully aware that as the events of the story seeded the sizable emotional life that sustained him as a boy, so those same moments, the empty shells of his memories, now feed the transforming fire that makes him a writer. PTS1OBJ9. 1. 3 (setting and mood/atmosphere) 9. 1. 7. 8 (imagery)