Module F – Answer Key Moed Bet 2011 ‫תשע"א‬
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ANSWER KEY
Alternate answers to all questions may be accepted if suitable.
PART I (35 points)
Students are required to answer questions for either (1) Mr. Know-All OR (2) The Enemy.
1. MR. KNOW-ALL/Somerset Maugham
a. i, ii (Use Rubric 1)
Two of the following or other suitable answers in any order:
His suitcases are too big. /His suitcases have too many labels on them. /
He has a Middle Eastern name. / He has too many expensive toiletries in
the bathroom. / His brushes look dirty.
b. (Use Rubric 1)
Mr. Kelada is in the pearl business. He claims to be an expert in pearls
and therefore he is the only one aboard ship who can tell if Mrs.
Ramsay's necklace is real.
c. (Use Rubric I)
The narrator understands that Mrs. Ramsay does not want to take off her
necklace because she doesn't want Mr. Kelada to examine it. She is afraid
that if she does Mr. Kelada will discover that the pearls are real and her
husband will realize that she is lying about where she got the necklace.
d. (Use Rubric 1)
Possible thinking skills: Evaluating/ Making connections/Applying/
Different perspectives
Any other thinking skills are acceptable as long as they are supported by
the text and can be explained in question e.
Possible information that would be adapted according to the thinking skill
chosen:
I would have liked Mr. Kelada. He is well-read and a good conversationalist
who can talk about art, music, plays and politics. He is warm and friendly
and tries to organize different activities on the ship. In the end he turns out
to be a sensitive, kind man ready to sacrifice his reputation to save Mrs.
Ramsay's marriage, a true gentleman.
OR
I would have disliked Mr. Kelada. He is pushy and a know-all who
dominates the conversation and the activities on the ship. I dislike people
who think they are smarter than everyone else. In addition, he tries to show
off that he's rich, cultured and well-traveled, and tries to be something he's
not - a true Englishman. He is only a foreigner who has a British passport. I
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don't like people who try to pretend they are something they are not.
e. (Use Rubric 2)
Possible explanations for thinking skills:
Evaluating: In this question I was asked to give my opinion, or evaluation
of the character of Mr. Kelada based on information in the story.
Making connections: In this question I was asked to make connections
between Mr. Kelada and people that I know who are similar to him in
character.
Applying: In this question I was asked to apply what I know about the
character of Mr. Kelada to my own life and decide if I would like to know
a person like him.
Different perspectives: In this question I was asked to decide whether or
not I shared the narrator’s point of view of Mr. Kelada and explain my
opinion.
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5 points
OR
2. THE ENEMY/ Pearl S. Buck
a. (Use Rubric 1)
Hana is disgusted by the white man. She is also aware that the white man is 5 points
endangering her family, and wants to get rid of him. On the other hand, she
is sympathetic to his suffering.
b. (Use Rubric 1)
Sadao is worried that the servants might report him and his wife to the
authorities because the servants believe Sadao and Hana have forgotten
how to be good Japanese citizens.
c. (Use Rubric I)
Sadao’s training as a doctor in the United States taught him that it is his
duty to help every human being. On the other hand, the American soldier is
Sadao’s enemy and for that reason he should not help him. The quote tells
us that his duty to save the life of a human being, no matter what his
nationality, seems to come before his duty as a citizen of Japan.
d. (Use Rubric 1)
Possible thinking skills: Uncovering motives /Inferring/Explaining cause
and effect
Any other thinking skills are acceptable as long as they are supported by
the text and can be explained in question e.
Possible information that would be adapted according to the thinking skill
chosen:
There are two main reasons the General does not send the assassins. He
feels that the doctor has power over him because Sadao is about to operate
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on him. He thinks that Sadao is the only doctor he can trust. Because he
studied in the U.S., the General also understands Sadao’s moral conflict.
e. (Use Rubric 2)
Possible explanations for thinking skills:
Uncovering motives: I chose this thinking skill because it explains why
the General behaves in this way.
Inferring: I chose this thinking skill because I can understand the
General's behavior by reading between the lines.
Explaining cause and effect: I chose this thinking skill because the reason
that the General does not send the assassins is a direct result of his
relationship with Sadao.
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5 points
Part II (35 points)
Students are required to answer questions for either (3) All My Sons OR (4) The Wave.
3. ALL MY SONS /Arthur Miller
a. (i) How Chris will deal with his father's crime.
5 points
(worth
100% or
0)
b. (Use Rubric 1)
Possible answers:
Joe is lying by not admitting his guilt in the cylinder heads incident. //
Mother is lying when she says that Keller was sick on the day the cylinder
heads were sent. // Chris/Joe is lying when he doesn’t tell Mother he
believes Larry will never return. // Chris is lying to Ann when he tells her
that the case has been forgotten by the neighbors. //Ann is lying when she
does not reveal the truth about Larry's death. // Jim is lying by not telling
Mother and Joe that he has known for a long time that Joe is guilty.
c. (Use Rubric I)
Possible answers:
Joe: Joe’s lie about the cylinder head incident has resulted in his son,
Larry’s, suicide. He has also ruined his relationship with Chris and put his
wife in an impossible moral situation. Moreover, he betrayed his partner
Steve Deever which led to Deever’s imprisonment. In the end, his guilt
drives him to commit suicide.
Chris: Chris is very upset by the news of his father's guilt. He hates
himself for refusing to see the truth and feels he has no right to marry Ann
because of his father's crimes. Chris will probably never overcome his
sense of shame and guilt of how his inability to face the truth has ruined
Ann's family and prevented his father from getting the punishment he
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deserves.
Mother: Mother must be a part of Keller's cover-up of the crime and lie in
order to protect him and her family. This forces her to pretend that Larry is
still alive or else for her it means that his father killed him, which is too
much for her to deal with. As a result of this, she does not want Chris to
marry the girl he loves.
George: George feels very guilty for never visiting his father in jail,
because he believed Joe's lie that he was innocent and only Steve was
guilty. George is determined to expose the truth now that he has finally
gone to visit his father, but he will never be able to forgive himself for
treating his father so cruelly and unjustly.
d. (Use Rubric 1)
Possible thinking skills: Comparing and contrasting/ Different perspectives
Any other thinking skills are acceptable as long as they are supported by
the text and can be explained in question e.
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Possible information that would be adapted according to the thinking skill
chosen:
Keller/Chris: Keller's approach to life is a pragmatic one: he will do
whatever it takes to promote his and his family's interests, regardless of the
moral implications of his actions. Chris, on the other hand, is an idealist,
and cannot accept his father's actions. He sees the bigger picture and
refuses to harm others to promote his private interests.
George /Frank: George is an idealist by nature. He went to war in order to
fight Hitler and was ready to sacrifice himself for a greater cause. Frank, on
the other hand, managed to avoid serving in the army. He was always one
year ahead of the draft and never volunteered. His attitude in life is to take
care of himself first, to be practical, not to go and "fight windmills." As a
result Frank has a home and a family and George is all alone.
Jim/Sue: Jim and his wife do not have the same values. Jim is not
motivated by the desire to make money. Instead of being a regular doctor,
he would rather do medical research, which pays less but would give him
more satisfaction. On the other hand, his wife Sue is materialistic and
pressures him into taking on additional patients.
e. (Use Rubric 2)
5 points
Possible explanations for thinking skills:
Comparing and contrasting: In this question I compared and
contrasted the approaches of two of the characters in terms of their attitudes
towards life, their values and their goals.
Different perspectives: In this question I examined two characters in the
play to see how their attitudes towards life, their values and their goals
differed.
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OR
4. THE WAVE / Morton Rhue
a. (Use Rubric 1)
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He wanted his pupils to understand how the Holocaust could have
happened. / He thought he could get his students to understand the
Holocaust better by having them experience something similar to what
people felt at the time.
b. (Use Rubric 1)
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His pupils cooperated from the very beginning. / When he walked into
class the pupils were already sitting quietly in their seats waiting for him,
willing to do whatever he said.
c. (Use Rubric I)
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Multiple choice questions do not require original thinking while essay
questions do. Judging from the pupils immediate acceptance of The
Wave, Ben wondered if his pupils had the ability to think for themselves,
which is what an essay question requires you to do.
d. (Use Rubric 1)
Possible thinking skills: Inferring/Making connections
Any other thinking skills are acceptable as long as they are supported by
the text and can be explained in question e.
Possible information that would be adapted according to the thinking skill
chosen:
Christy means that Ben was too successful in his experiment. Ben wanted
to show the pupils how dangerous it is to follow a leader blindly without
asking any critical questions about his purposes or methods like people did
in the Nazi regime. But he never intended the pupils to take the experiment
so seriously and turn it into a movement that would threaten and even
endanger pupils who did not agree with it.
e. (Use Rubric 2)
Possible explanations for thinking skills:
Inferring: In answering this question I had to infer what Christy meant by
using the metaphor of a "monster" to describe the results of The Wave
experiment.
Making connections: In answering this question I needed to make
connections between Nazi Germany and what The Wave experiment was
becoming.
PART III (30 points)
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Students are required to answer questions for either (5) As I Grew Older OR (6) Rules of
the Game OR (7) The Split Cherry Tree OR (8) Grandmother.
Note: When giving examples from the texts students may either quote directly or
paraphrase.
5. AS I GREW OLDER/Langston Hughes
Possible answer:
The above quote gives us the background for the poem As I Grew Older. When the
narrator tells us that there is a wall separating him from his dream, and says "I am
black," we understand that the wall is there because he is black. The quote tells us that
blacks were terribly discriminated against in American society and treated as inferior at
the time the poem was written. Therefore, a black man could not expect to achieve his
dreams because every door was closed to him.
OR
6. RULES OF THE GAME/Amy Tan
Possible answer:
This information helps me understand the story Rules of the Game because it adds to
my understanding of the conflict the girl in the story faces. On the one hand, she is torn
between her mother's Chinese values and traditions, and on the other hand the values of
American society, which she wants to become a part of. For example, she is ashamed of
her Chinese mother's customs and wishes her mother could be more like the mothers of
her American friends. However, she knows that she partly owes her success at chess to
her mother's belief in her and to the Chinese wisdom that her mother has given her
(such as "not revealing everything you know").
OR
7. THE SPLIT CHERRY TREE/Jesse Stuart
Possible answer:
This information helps me to understand Stuart’s didactic purpose in writing the story.
Two approaches to education are presented. On the one hand, the boy's father learned
from Professor Herbert that school is not a waste of time and that there is a great deal to
be learned there. On the other hand, Professor Herbert learned that the boy's father,
despite his background, was wiser than the professor thought he was, and that the father
was probably right in thinking his son had been unfairly treated (the punishment should
have been the same for all). Each man educated the other.
OR
8. GRANDMOTHER/Sameeneh Shirazie
Possible answer:
This quote helps me understand that the grandmother in the poem probably felt the way
many old people feel, as described in the quote, that they are "invisible". The narrator's
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grandmother is just looking for someone to talk to, to share what happened to her that
day. Although those things might not seem important to a younger person, they are
important to the grandmother. In our society, which idolizes youth, we often think of
older people as worthless. And this is probably how the grandmother felt, and the
granddaughter realizes this. She also realizes how she almost missed getting to know
her grandmother better and what she would have missed if she had not stopped to talk
to her.
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APPENDIX TO PART I
)‫(נספח לפרק ראשון‬
Thinking Skills
)‫)כישורי חשיבה‬
• Comparing and contrasting
• Making connections
• Distinguishing parts and whole
• Different perspectives
• Explaining cause and effect
• Uncovering motives
• Generating possibilities
• Synthesizing
• Predicting
• Problem solving
• Applying
• Evaluating
• Inferring
• Explaining patterns
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