1.Read this excerpt from “Life Without Go-Go Boots” by Barbara Kingsolver and answer the question. We lived in the country, in the middle of an alfalfa field; we had no immediate access to Bobbie Brooks sweaters. I went to school in the hand-me-downs of a cousin three years older. She had excellent fashion sense, but during the three-year lag her every sleek outfit turned to a pumpkin. … My black lace-up oxfords, which my parents perceived to have orthopedic value, carried their own weight in the spectacle. I suspected people noticed, and I knew it for sure on the day Billy Stamps announced to the lunch line, “Make way for the Bride of Frankenstein.”

Also judging from the diction in the above excerpt, what would you say is the tone of this personal essay?

satire
humor
nostalgia
information

2.Read this excerpt from Chapter 1 of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou and answer the question.

When I was three and Bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed – ‘To Whom It May Concern’ – that we were Marguerite and Bailey Johnson Jr. … Negro passengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for ‘the poor little motherless darlings’ and plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad.

In the above excerpt, Angelou uses her diction to portray the children as .

an exaggeration of the facts
a metaphor for luggage
an allusion to The Runaway Train
a simile for luggage

3.Read this excerpt from Chapter 7, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and answer the question.

In this way I got a good many lessons in writing, which it is quite possible I should never have gotten in any other way. During this time, my copy-book was the board fence, brick wall, and pavement; my pen and ink was a lump of chalk. With these, I learned mainly to write.

What is Douglass’ explicit meaning in the excerpt?

He learned to write.
He misses school.
He learned from life.
He likes school.