Test Lesson 100
Complete the Reading test directly on these pages
unless otherwise instructed.
Reading
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Chapters 1–15)
A. Ballads: Fill in the blanks with the correct answers from the following list of titles.
“Pocahontas”
“Molly Pitcher”
“Sir Patrick Spens”
1. Name the ballad that is set during the Colonial period in America.
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2. Name the ballad that is set during the Revolutionary War in America.
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3. Name the ballad that is an old folk ballad, set in the winter in Scotland.
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B. Literary Terms: Match the literary terms with the correct example.
_____ 1. metaphor
_____ 2. allusion
a. Charlotte sees two faces in the pitch darkness in the hold
of the ship; one with eyes glinting wickedly, and with lips
in a… smirk
_____ 3. suspense
b. Charlotte warns the reader not to continue reading if they
are offended by strong ideas
_____ 4. symbol
c. the round robin
_____ 5. irony
d. the “whip . . . [had] four strands twitching like the tail of an
angry cat.”
_____ 6. simile
e. When Charlotte closed her cabin door she said, “. . . I had
been placed in a coffin. My coffin.”
f. When Charlotte goes into the cargo area of the ship she is
reminded of the story of Jonah and the whale from the Bible
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C. Identification: Choose a name from the word bank and write it in the space in front of each sentence. Not
all choices will be used.
Keetch
Fisk
Cranick
Hollybrass
Barlow
Charlotte Doyle
Captain Jaggery
Ewing
Zachariah
1. _________________________________ keeps his collection of muskets in a gun safe.
2. _________________________________ is the man with only one arm.
3. _________________________________ gives Charlotte the dirk.
4. _________________________________ takes over the galley after Zachariah’s death.
5. _________________________________ is the narrator of the story.
D. Short Answer: Answer the following questions using complete sentences.
1. How did Captain Jaggery get a welt on his cheek?
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2. What injury had Captain Jaggery inflicted on Cranick on an earlier voyage?
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3. How has Charlotte’s upbring influenced her attitude toward the ship, the captain, and the
crew? Give at least two examples from the text to support your answer.
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4. Choose one of the female characters from the ballads you read (Pocahontas or Molly
Pitcher) and compare her to Charlotte in terms of traditional roles of women. Be certain to
use examples from the texts to support your answers.
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