1 Which best describes the setting of Maya Angelou’s autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
a nineteenth-century plantation
a large, segregated city in the 1920s
a small Southern town in the 1940s
a household torn by conflict in the 1960s

2 In W.G. Wetherell’s short story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant,” the narrator is torn between pursuing a fish and continuing his date with Sheila. What type of conflict is shown here?
man vs. nature
man vs. man
man vs. family
man vs. himself
3) Which of the following sentences form The Call of the Wild is an example of dialect?

A. "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego"

B. "'Answers to the name of Buck,' the man soliloquized, quoting from the saloon-keeper's letter which had announced the consignment of the crate and contents."

C. "'Wot I say?' the dog driver cried to Perrault. 'Dat Buck for sure learn queek as any'ting.'"

D. "His muscles became hard as iron, and he grew callous to all ordinary pain."

4 In James Hurst's short story "The Scarlet Ibis", who or what does the delicate red bird symbolize?
A. the narrator
B. the narrator's brother Doodle
C. the inevitability of dearth
D. the fragility of relationships

Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is set in the 1930s and 1940s, previous to the civil rights movement, but develops in the midst of the Great Depression and World War II. Maya is raised by her grandmother in the Southern town of Stamps, Arkansas.

2. Answer is D. man vs. man.

In "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant," a teenage narrator asks Sheila, his neighbor, out on a date on his boat. He really loves fishing, but after he realizes she hates it, he has to choose between his love for fishing and his love for Sheila. He eventually gives up on catching the best bass in his life for her, and later regrets this decision.

3. Answer is C. "Wot I say?' the dog driver cried to Perrault. 'Dat Buck for sure learn queek as any'ting."

Dialect is a peculiar form of a language which is typical of a specific region or social group. As it can be seen in this example of "The Call of The Wild", the character speaks in a really particular way.

4. Answer is C. The inevitability of death.

In the short story, there are several references to colors. The author uses those several colors to represent the feelings of sadness, passion, and eventually, with color red he simbolizes loss.