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9th ELA Unit 1 Assessment

Parts of Speech, Sentence Structure, Inference, Reading


Comprehension, Textual Analysis
Multiple Choice Questions
Directions (1-6): Read the passage below and answer the questions by
choosing the BEST answer to each question.

Parts of Speech
1. Which one of the options below is an adjective?
a. difficulty
b. adventure
c. excitement
d. easy
2. Which one of the options below is an adjective?
a. dream
b. nightmare
c. afraid
d. love
3. Which one of the options below in a noun?
a. difficult
b. adventure
c. slowly
d. swimming
4. Which one of the options below is an adverb?
a. well
b. friend
c. shake
d. they're
5. Which of the options below in a verb?
a. difficulties
b. they
c. slowly
d. swam
6. Which one of the options below is an adverb?
a. duck
b. quickly
c. ugly
d. hear

Inference and Reading Comprehension


Directions: Select the best answer to each question and record your answer on
the separate answer sheet provided for you.

Passage 1 Questions
7. The narrator indicates that her name is connected to:
a. Her culture and heritage
b. Her school
c. Her mother
d. A horse
8. What does the narrator mean when she says Esperanza. I have inherited her
name, but I dont want to inherit her place by the window.
a. She does not want people to mispronounce her name.
b. She wants to change her name.
c. She does not want to be held down by marriage and gender roles like her
grandmother.
d. She does not want to be a wild horse of a woman like her grandmother.
9. What does the excerpt reveal about the narrators experience with her name?
a. She thinks her name is beautiful and she feels deeply connected to her heritage.
b. Her name is grounded in her heritage, yet she lacks a sense of belonging.
c. The way she feels about her name depends on how others feel about it.
d. The narrators feelings about her name reveal that she hates her heritage.

Passage 2 Questions
10. The narrators experience sharing his name in the classroom can be described
as:
a. Humiliating
b. Welcoming
c. Friendly
d. Violent
11. The line I felt like a magician slicing myself in half indicates that Junior:
a. Resents the other kids
b. Is proud to have two names
c. Wants people to know both of his names
d. Feels torn by having two names
12. What does the excerpt reveal about the narrators experience with his name?
a. The narrator is proud of his name and feels comfortable sharing it with others
b. The narrators name makes him feel like an outcast because it is different from the
white kids names
c. The narrators experience with his name reveals that he hates his heritage.
d. The way she feels about her name depends on how others feel about it.

Short Response Questions


Textual Analysis
Directions: Write your responses to question 39 on page 1 of your essay booklet
and question 40 on page 2 of your essay booklet. Be sure to answer both
questions.
14. Write a well developed paragraph using CER in which you use ideas and
evidence from both Passage I and Passage II to discuss the central idea of the
power of names.

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