Walk two moons

lesson 1

1. which of the following details about the authors life mostly likely and force her ideas for the novel walk two moons .
a) she came from a large family.
b) her family was typically a noisy and rowdy bunch.
c) she enjoyed family vacations piled in the car on long drives.
d) as a child she often had visiting relatives and friends at her house.

2. many people consider the journey to be an archetype in literature.

a) the struggle between opposing forces in a story.
b) an element of a story that matters only to a certain period in time.
c) a unique and very culturally specific story.
d) an element of a story that has a similar meaning to different cultures and eras.

3. which of the following best represents a hero in the literary sense?

a) a girl who grows through challenges emotional experiences
b) a woman who gets ahead by taking advantage of others
c) a boy who gives up when faced with physical challenges.
d) a man who doesn't want to face his problems .

Read the excerpts from “take the tortillas out of your poetry” and “speaking arabic.” my friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. he took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of spanish, english, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. in other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. at a neighborhood fair in texas, somewhere between the german oom-pah sausage stand and the mexican gorditas booth, i overheard a young man say to his friend, “i wish i had a heritage. sometimes i feel—so lonely for one.” and the tall american trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. which best states how the structures of both excerpts support ideas about cultural diversity? each incorporates non-english words. each incorporates academic words. each incorporates offensive words. each incorporates nonsense words.