Heroes: Final Assessment Directions: Please respond to the prompt on the lines below. Use complete sentences. Cite evidence
when appropriate.
Prompt: Over the course of this unit, you have gathered details from literary and informational texts
about heroes. Use the evidence you have gathered to answer the question: Why do people act
heroically? Support your answer using reasons and evidence from a variety of the texts covered in this
unit.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here?

When hamlet shows his mother a picture of king hamlet and a picture of claudius, he tells her to look at the "counterfeit presentment of two brothers." in shakespeare's day, counterfeit meant a "portrait" or "picture." what does counterfeit mean today?

After reading the short story "the most dangerous game" by richard connell,write an article on the main character of the story by relating the main events through his eyes. cite specific quotations from the story in the intreview