Questions on THE BOY WHO LOVED ICE CREAM

1. Identify two (2) facts, in the story, that indicates the family's economic state.

2. What function is the family preparing to attend?

3. What prevented Benjy from tasting ice-cream?

4. Recount Elsa's description of ice-cream's taste.

5 Identify the differences, regarding personality, between Mama and Papa.

6. Why was Papa so impatient with Benjy?

7.Outline Papa's evidence that Mama was unfaithful to him.

8.Is the story set?

9. Who were the hosts for the event that the family attended?

10. How did this event evolve and change over time?

11. What two separate issues distracted Papa and Benjy throughout their attendance of the event?

12. Recount the events that led to Benjy losing his ice-cream.

13. What plot structure is used in the story?

14.What dramatic is used at the end of the story

15. What point of view is used in this short story?

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Answer 1

Answer:

1.- The clothes they wore since they are made of old clothes from other people and the fact that they bathed using kitchen tools instead of a proper shower

2.- The Harvest Festival

3.- Benjy is stopped from tasting his ice cream by his father who pulls him away.

4.- Elsa describes ice cream as the most beautiful dream with all great and bright colors and as a feeling of being hot and cold at the same time as well as how it disappears from your tongue as you touch it.

5.- Mama is an independent busy woman who is very active, social, and open to new experiences and learning, while Papa is all the opposite by being a narrow-minded antisocial routinary man who also felt extremely jealous of his wife's attitude.

6.- Because he had the idea that he was not his real son.

7.- He believes that his wife had been unfaithful to him, since she spent some time away to help her sick mother, although he thinks she left to meet her lov er.

8.- In a small town called One Eye in Jamaica

9.- the Harvest Festival is held in Springville

10.- The events evolve as the obsession of both father and son becomes bigger and bigger and leads them to deception.

11.- Papa was distracted by his jealousy and his obsession with following his wife while Benjy was distracted by his increasing necessity of trying an ice cream and satisfy their own delusions.

12.- As Benjy got his ice cream, his father saw how his mother was walking towards a man, and in a possessiveness at tack, he pulled the boy to confront who he believed was his wife's lo ver making Benjy's ice cream fall off.

13.- The story follows a simple and direct plot structure with expositions, rising action, cli max, falling action, resolution.

14.- The dramatic element at the end is the theme of delusion and unfairness as none of the two intense and troubled characters get what they were looking for.

15.- The story is told from the third-person point of view

Explanation:

The boys who loved ice cream is a short story written by Olive Senior a poet and novelist from Jamaica, this story shows how human beings attitude and mind can be controlled by their deepest and more intense obsessions and desi res, using several literary elements and following the story of a little boy along with his family. She shows several shadows in the rode to fulfill their long dreamed illutions.


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A tutor is able to help a student organize their ____________ to make the most of their learning materials.
a.
Notebook
c.
Garage
b.
Bathroom
d.
Gym locker


Please select the best answer from the choices provided

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B
C
D

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Answer:

The answer is notebook

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The boy or his friends ___________around the track
A. Run
B. Was running
C. Runs
D. Is running

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Answer:

was running

Explanation:

The others don't make sense

its either B or D but just try to say the sentence and go with the one that makes more sense

Read the excerpt from Warriors Don't Cry.

"Then you don't have anything to be concerned about." Mother Lois maneuvered through the unusually heavy traffic. "I don't know where all the cars could have come from," she said. We both craned our necks, curious about all the unfamiliar cars and people. Certainly there had never before been so many white people driving down the streets of our quiet, tree-lined neighborhood.

What idea is emphasized through repetition?

Commuter traffic is a daily inconvenience.
The streets are unusually crowded.
The narrator is looking for her friends.
Mother Lois is not a skilled driver.

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Answer:

B. The streets are usually crowded

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Which sentence has an error in subject-verb agrement?
A)
The owl that had made a home in the forest surrounding the Thompson's
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B)
All of the tires that were being recycled by the church youth group are
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The gardenia bushes that John had been struggling to keep alive somehow
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D)
The short stories that are found in the old anthology in the back of the
library is amazingly relevant to contemporary life.

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Answer:

D)

The short stories that are found in the old anthology in the back of the

library is amazingly relevant to contemporary life.

Explanation:

ARE, not is

Answer:

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Explanation:

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Answer:

c

Explanation:

The concept of double consciousness was coined by ——
A. Langston Hughes
B. W.E.B. Du Bois
C. Claude McKay
D. Countee Cullen

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Answer:

C

Explanation:

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Why did early Indian civilizations settle near the Indus River?
A
Grain mills and other technologies were powered by the river.
B
The wide river provided protection from other civilizations.
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Early Indian religions centered on the worship of rivers.
D
The river provided easy access to both food and water.

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Answer:

D.

Explanation:

It was a way to gather water and food sources easily.

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Answer:

what are you asking

Explanation:

Are you asking for the meaning?

Meaning: have a strong effect on someone or something

Explanation:

impact

noun

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1.the action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another.

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Answer:

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Explanation:

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Answer:

cuz the soldier might have more soldures and ah gun.

Explanation:

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Which statement best describes how the background on Emmett Till life helps us understand the impact of his murder? A. Because he was an independent boy, he didn't care to listen to his mother's warnings about how to act in the south. B. Because he has never been to south before, he did not believe his uncles stories about racial practices in Mississippi. C. Because he grew up in Chicago, he never expirenced racism and, as far as he was concerned, he saw himself as being equal to white people. D. Because of his upbringing, he did not act how white southerners expected blacks to act, so his murderers singled him out as a sign of unwanted racial progress.

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Answer:

D. Because of his upbringing, he did not act how white southerners expected blacks to act, so his murderers singled him out as a sign of unwanted racial progress.

Explanation:

The statement that best describes how the background on Emmett Till life helps us understand the impact of his murder was that he grew up in Chicago and because of his upbringing and low racial prejudice in Chicago, he did not act how white southerners expected him to act and as a result, he acted like he was in Chicago and he got murdered.

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Answer:

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Answer:

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What do you think is next for the new King Arthur? What are immediate concerns? What advice would you give him? (5 sentences)

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Answer:

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Answer:

Gatsby achieves the American Dream.

Explanation:

In the novel "The Great Gatsby", Jay Gatsby achieves the American Dream. Growing up poor, Gatsby's main goal was to become rich and climb up the social ladder. He puts all of his effort in this dream and finally achieves it. His achievements and wealth were so huge that he ultimately becomes a renowned figure in the society.

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A. simple listing

B. order of importance

C. comparison and contrast

D. time and order

E. spatial development

F. cause and effect

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The answer is C compare and contrast! The author is comparing reading to shifting gears!

Answer:

b

Explanation:

i think it is b because it is going from most important to least important

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each.

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Answer:

Mahatma Gandhi – The Story Of My Experiments With The Truth.

R.K. Narayan – The Guide.

Rohinton Mistry – A Fine Balance.

Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children.

Jhumpa Lahiri – The Interpreter Of Maladies.

Vikram Seth – A Suitable Boy.

Arundhati Roy – God of Small Things.

Amitav Ghosh – The Glass Palace.

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Mulk Raj Anand – The Private Life of an Indian Prince

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Mitra Phukan – The Collector’s Wife

Khushwant Singh – Train to Pakistan

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Anita Desai – In Custody

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Choose a suffix from the chart to complete each word.

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Answer:

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Why do George and Lennie each carry a bindle

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Explanation:

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Answer:

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