Reading Comprehension Quiz (Francine Prose, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”)
Reading Comprehension Quiz
Francine Prose, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”
Read “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.
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Dante and Homer are compared to in the first paragraph.
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The word ndelible in paragraph 3, line one, most closely means
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The author notes that the most widely read author in high school English classrooms around the country is
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The author compares Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as a “paradigm of memoir, of thought—of literature” to
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Atticus Finch is called a(n).
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In paragraph 16, Prose writes, “Also widely studied are novels of dubious literary merit.” The opposite of the word “dubious” is
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Prose suggests that literature in American classrooms is being taught for rather than.
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The San Francisco Board of Education said that all authors taught in English classes should reflect
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Prose suggests the answer to the question “why do [college] students so despise dead writers”? is that
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Prose suggests that simpler texts are substituted for more complex ones because.
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