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The document contains questions about the short story "Uncle Marcos" and questions testing reading comprehension skills such as identifying vocabulary definitions, analyzing texts, and identifying parts of speech. It covers topics from the story like how the family feels about Marcos's visits and what ultimately happens to him, as well as comprehension topics like defining words and identifying predicates.

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Marcos PDF

The document contains questions about the short story "Uncle Marcos" and questions testing reading comprehension skills such as identifying vocabulary definitions, analyzing texts, and identifying parts of speech. It covers topics from the story like how the family feels about Marcos's visits and what ultimately happens to him, as well as comprehension topics like defining words and identifying predicates.

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Marcos

First Read: Comprehension


Identify the choice that best answers the question.

____ 1. In “Uncle Marcos,” how do the adult family members feel about Marcos’s visits?

a. They are delighted to hear the music he plays.


b. They are angry with him for staying away for so long.
c. They are bothered by his mess and his strange behavior.
d. They are bored by his long stories and are eager for him to leave.
____ 2. In “Uncle Marcos,” how does Antonieta respond to Marcos’s unusual courtship?

a. She is displeased by his organ music and marries someone else.


b. She is amused by his organ music until the townspeople mock him.
c. She thinks that his organ music is charming but refuses him anyway.
d. She embarrasses him by laughing at his organ music in front of her friends.
____ 3. In “Uncle Marcos,” what event leads the family to have a funeral for Marcos after his flight?

a. Clara reports that she sees his plane crash in the distance.
b. The searchers return home with what they say is his coffin.
c. The newspapers print that he died when his plane crashed.
d. Volunteers tell his family that they were unable to find his body.
____ 4. In “Uncle Marcos,” why are Marcos and Clara successful in their fortune-telling business? Choose two
options.

a. They can see into the future.


b. They enjoy manipulating people.
c. They want to make a lot of money.
d. They are able to appear convincing.
e. They guess what people want to hear.
____ 5. In “Uncle Marcos,” what happens to Marcos at the end of the story?

a. His body is dropped off by the ship’s captain, who killed him in a fight.
b. He dies in Africa of a mysterious illness and is sent home to his family in a coffin.
c. His body is returned to his sister’s house after he dies on a ship from an African plague.
d. He catches a strange illness from another passenger on a ship and arrives home in a coffin.

First Read: Concept Vocabulary


Identify the choice that best answers the question.

____ 6. If Robin is an invincible diver, then which of the following must be true? Base your answer on the meaning
of invincible.

a. She invents new ways to dive.


b. She argues with her teammates.
c. She gets very hungry after she dives.
d. She never loses diving competitions.
____ 7. Which of these situations is an example of trying to decipher something?

a. trying to put together a difficult jigsaw puzzle


b. trying to find an old book that is no longer in print
c. trying to write a thank-you letter for a gift you do not like
d. trying to figure out what a note in messy handwriting says
____ 8. What is the meaning of ingenuity?

a. goodness
b. cleverness
c. foolishness
d. stubbornness

Close Read: Analyze the Text


Identify the choice that best answers the question.

____ 9. Which sentence best describes the crowd in “Uncle Marcos” before Marcos’s flight?

a. They are easily fooled and believe he is a technical genius.


b. They are bored with him and impatient to see what will happen.
c. They are mean-spirited and plan to make fun of him when he fails.
d. They are doubtful at first but become curious to see what happens.

Close Read: Analyze Craft and Structure


Identify the choice that best answers the question.

____ 10. Which passage from “Uncle Marcos” presents the best example of a static character?
a. [Antonieta] managed to recover from the memory of that suitor who had ruined her
seventeenth year with his military march and his waltz.
b. Marcos’s heroic resurrection made everyone forget about his barrel-organ phase.
c. But Clara was so upset that she spent a week walking in her sleep and sucking her thumb.
d. [T]he captain, furious at all the troubles this passenger had caused the shipping company
and himself personally, unloaded him without a backward glance....
____ 11. Which passage from “Uncle Marcos” is the best example of the nontraditional way the author uses dialogue?

a. All Clara had to do to see her uncle was close her eyes and there he was, weather-beaten
and thin, with a pirate’s mustache....
b. Uncle Marcos’s manners were those of a cannibal, as Severo put it.
c. Antonieta did not realize the music was meant for her until the parrot called her by her full
name....
d. One of them had been accused of stealing, because her employer had misplaced a valuable
ring.
____ 12. In “Uncle Marcos,” which are character traits of Marcos? Choose three options.

a. shyness
b. dishonesty
c. consideration
d. weird behavior
e. success in love
f. sense of humor

____ 13. What is the meaning of the Latin suffix -ity?

a. similar to
b. belonging to
c. state or quality of
d. study or science of
____ 14. The word maternity contains the Latin suffix -ity and the root word mater, meaning “mother.” What does
maternity mean? Base your answer on your knowledge of the suffix -ity.

a. similar to a mother
b. the study of mothers
c. the state of being a mother
d. belonging to a group of mothers

____ 15. What is the predicate noun in this sentence?

Emmanuelle Charpentier is a scientist who studies genes and bacteria.

a. Charpentier
b. scientist
c. genes
d. bacteria
____ 16. What is the predicate adjective in this sentence?

She became famous by finding a new and clever way to change genetic material.

a. famous
b. new
c. clever
d. genetic

____ 17. What is the predicate pronoun in these sentences?

Have you heard of Jennifer Doudna? It was she who made the discovery with Charpentier.

a. you
b. she
c. who
d. with

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