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Chud is in the seventh grade. He reud several short stories in his class and
wrote a paper about them. As part of a peer-editing assignment, he wants
you to read his paper. After you reud Chad's paper, think about the
suggestions you would make to help him coruect and improve it. Then
snswer the multiple-choice questions that follow.
The Father of the Modern Mystery
(1) Edgar Allen Poe has long been seen as abterary genius. (2) His
extensive vocabulary and sfylistic writing have thrilled and intrigued
audiences for years. (3) Poes fame perhaps comes from his unusual
characters. (a) The focus of each story is a complex study of a human in
crisis.
(5) The Black Cat, one of his better-known short stories is a journey
of a man's progression into insanity due to his abuse of aicohol. (6) My
favorite part is the shocking way he becomes angry at everyone who loves
him. (7) Stephen King also writes about similar $ary characters. (8) The
man starts abusing his cat who does nothing more than show him affection.
(9) He gouges out the cat's eye with a penknife and eventually hangs it on a
tree limb outside his bedroom window. (10) He even becomes enraged by
his beioved wife and buries a hatchet in her head.
(1 1) In Annabei lee, the main character is just as intriguing. yet fi1led
with love and affection. (12) This poem is told from the viewpoint of a man
whose love has died. (13) She was his princess, the love of his life.
(14) There young love is so strong his entire being is destroyed as he mourns
her passing. (15) He is so wracked that he lies beside her tomb and withers
away with loss and grief. (16) Life cannot go on if he doesn't have her by
his side.
(17) After reading these two works by Edgar Allen Poe, you did find
yourself embroiled in the mystery, the depth of characters and the
descriptive, sfylistic language. (18) He is lruly the "father of the modern
mvstery."
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What change, if any, should be made to sentence 11?
A change is to are
B change filled to fiIling
C change Annabel lee to Annabel Lee
D Make no chanse
2.
What change, if any, should be made to sentence 5?
A change progression to progresion
B add a cofilma after stories
C change Black to black
D Make no change
3.
What change, if any, should be made to sentence 6?
A change becomes to becoming
B change shocking to shoking
C add a comma after way
D Make no change
A
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5.
What change, if any, shouid be made in sentence 3?
A change unusual to Unusual
B change comes to was coming
C change Poes to Poe's
D Make no change
Which sentence couid be added after sentence 10 to support the ideas in
the second paragraph (sentences 5 through 10)?
A He found a similar cat and adopted it.
B Mysteries like this have intrigued readers for generations.
C Yet the cat comes back from the grave to haunt and torment their
killer.
D My sister really loved all the gory parts.
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6. Which of the following is the best way to rewrite
A He is so wracked with gnef.
sentence 15?
That he lies beside her tomb and withers
away.
B He is so wracked with loss and erief that he lies beside her tomb and
withers away.
C Wracked with loss and srief. He lies beside her tomb and withers
away.
D Make no chanse
if any, should be made to sentence
A change her to their
B change There to Their
7. What change,
14?
C change is to are
D Make no chanse
8. What change,
if any, should be made in sentence 17?
A delete the comma after Poe
B
C
D
change depth to deepening
change did find to will find
Make no chanse
9. Which sentence does not belong
A Sentence 6
in the second paragraph?
B Sentence i0
C Sentence 9
D Sentence 7
1O.What change, if any, should be made in sentence 16?
A change doesn'l to don't
B change his to their
C add a cofirma after on
D make no chanse
Copyright 2002by Michael Cornelius Stephens