Reading Comprehension Quiz (Gay Talese, “The Silent Season of a Hero”)

Reading Comprehension Quiz

Gay Talese, “The Silent Season of a Hero”

Read “The Silent Season of a Hero” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.

Question After having read the article, why might Talese have given it the title “The Silent Season of a Hero”?

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Question In the first section of the essay, DiMaggio sees a man outside of his restaurant that he did not wish to see. Who was this person?

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Question Talese begins the article with a quote from Hemingway’s novella The Old Man and the Sea. Why might he have done this?

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Question Joe DiMaggio was almost as famous for his marriage to Marilyn Monroe as he was for playing baseball. Why was DiMaggio so upset at the coverage of the marriage and Monroe’s subsequent death?

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Question After reading this article, what theme might you be able to identify?

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Question What angle was Talese trying to get at for this story? In other words, what was the “unnoticed story” that he wished to tell about DiMaggio?

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Question In the last part of the article, Joe DiMaggio attends a banquet and is accosted by a drunken fan. The fan asks questions of DiMaggio regarding the current baseball season. Joe’s responses are ambiguous at best. Talese includes this conversation to illustrate that Joe

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Question Talese ends the article with the quote from DiMaggio about the batting cage: “There was a time when you couldn’t get me out of there.” He had just hit the ball awkwardly and his hands stung. What is Talese implying?

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