![]() ![]() This exam will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection including: plot development, characterization, author’s purpose, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, figurative language, fact & opinion, analogies, and other elements of literature. The excerpt begins with the line: “When I was five, growing up in Pittsburgh in 1950…” and concludes with the final line: “It raced over the wall, lighting it blue wherever it ran…”. She also wonders about the world outside her bedroom and finally realizes the shadows on her wall come from a car passing by her window. The 15-paragraph excerpt covers Dillard’s observations about the shadows in her room as she lies in her bed at night while her younger sister Amy sleeps in the bed next to hers. ![]() This 39-question multiple-choice reading comprehension and analysis test on an excerpt from the autobiographical book An American Childhood by Annie Dillard has questions from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). ![]()
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