8 grade Session 3 (Poem Retort)

Question 1

A big circle around the small one, “This is what

Accepted Answer

the white man knows"

Question 2

Prefix re-, means

Accepted Answer

back or again

Question 3

The Whiteman drew the immense circle

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

The white man drew a small circle in the sand

Accepted Answer

and told the red man

Question 5

Poems should be read 4 times in order to understand its meaning.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Said my head to my heart is an example of personification

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

The white man implies he is more intelligent than the red man

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

The small circle in the sand by the white man is what the "the Indian knows,”

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

An immense ring around both circles “This is where the white man and the red man know nothing.”

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Reading #4 will focus on identifying the central idea.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Reading #1 will focus on what the poem sounds like when it is read aloud

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Carl Sandburg wrote the poem "retort"

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

Reading #3 will focus on analyzing the language (Figurative language)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Reading #2 will focus on “getting the gist” of the meaning (the real point)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Fool versus worse than a fool is "retort".

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

Who took the stick and swept an immense ring?

Accepted Answer

The Indian

Question 17

In the Poem Retort, the head was speaking to the heart in the beginning.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

The trick of a tress led the heart astray.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

In sore distress means to be heart broken.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

The central idea of the poem retort is the struggle between listening to our mind or following the desires of our heart

Accepted Answer

True

Questions 20