Read the article then answer the questions. Literature & Language.

Read the article then answer the questions
Part I: Multiple-Choice
Mark the best response for each question.
Question 1 (2 points)
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What is the author’s primary purpose for writing this piece?
Question 1 options:
a)
to inform
b)
to instruct
c)
to persuade
d)
to entertain
Question 2 (2 points)
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In paragraph 2, what is the meaning of “cramming” in the sentence, “Our parents wouldn’t have thought of making ‘playdates’ for us or cramming our schedules with lessons”?
Question 2 options:
a)
improving
b)
planning
c)
decreasing
d)
over-filling
Question 3 (2 points)
What is the tone of the essay?
Question 3 options:
a)
sarcastic
b)
factual
c)
concerned
d)
indifferent
Question 4 (2 points)
Which sentence best states the main idea of paragraph 5?
Question 4 options:
a)
“They are the glory of the human child, his human heritage.”
b)
“That ‘restlessness’ and inability to sit still; that ‘mischievousness’ and ‘looking inside’ and eternal ‘Why?”’
c)
“They learn that gravity makes their blood rush to their heads. They learn that all that rushing of blood can make them dizzy.”
d)
“Play and the restless questing energy that provokes it, is, in a sense, childhood’s greatest gift.”
Question 5 (2 points)
According to the author, all of the following cause parents to seek structured activities for their children, except
Question 5 options:
a)
parents’ lack of trust in their children’s abilities to do it independently
b)
parents’ busy schedules
c)
parents’ desire to give their children a strong education
d)
parents’ worries about the cost of the activities
Question 6 (2 points)
What is the relationship between the information in paragraph 4 and that in paragraph 5?
Question 6 options:
a)
sequence
b)
cause-effect
c)
contrast
d)
definition
Question 7 (2 points)
In this sentence, what does “dampen” mean? “But it is terribly easy to dampen a child’s creativity, especially by insisting that there is a right and wrong way of doing everything, that life is a sort of multiple-choice quiz with adults holding the answer key” (paragraph 8).
Question 7 options:
a)
to increase
b)
to encourage
c)
to moisten
d)
to diminish
Question 8 (2 points)
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Which of the following statements is a fact and not an opinion?
Question 8 options:
a)
“Team spirit and competition are wonderful things, of course, but no thinking person would consider them essential to the psychic or moral development of a second grader” (paragraph 7).
b)
“Our parents knew none of this but, of course, that was the point” (paragraph 1).
c)
“Half a century ago, Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget identified play as critical to the emotional, moral, and intellectual development of children” (paragraph 5).
d)
“There’s nothing wrong with letting children be bored” (paragraph 3).
Part II: Short Answer
Write your answers in complete sentences.
Question 9 (4 points)
What is the main idea or thesis of the entire selection?
Question 10 (4 points)
Explain the meaning of the following expression: “Adults like this make awfully good corporate cogs” (paragraph 6).
Question 11 (4 points)
Based on the information in paragraph 5, paraphrase the following quote in your own words: “That indifference to soiled hands and torn clothes for the sake of running and climbing and digging and exploring—these are not unfortunate and accidental ways of childhood which are to be shed as soon as we can get rid of them. They are the glory of the human child, his human heritage” (paragraph 5).
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