Reading Comprehension Quiz (Sarah Vowell, “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”)
Reading Comprehension Quiz
Sarah Vowell, “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”
Read “The Partly Cloudy Patriot” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.
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13.55 Why does Vowell find movies like The Patriot comforting?
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13.56 From the start of the essay, how might the tone be described?
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13.57 How might Vowell’s feelings about the Declaration of Independence be summed up?
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13.58 What is Vowell referring to what she writes, “For years, I called it the P word.”
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13.59 According to Vowell, what did the flag begin to represent once the nation had declared war after September 11?
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13.60 What does Vowell declare to be one of “the most American emotions an American can have”?
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13.61 When Vowell writes “I don’t know what’s more ridiculous, that people like that would deny a person like me the ability to earn a living using skills and knowledge I learned in school, or that they would deny me my unalienable right to chop garlic in time with the B-52’s ‘Rock Lobster’ as I cook dinner,” she is referencing what group?
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13.62 When is Vowell most comfortable with Americans and with being American?
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