Have an account?
Skip to Content
Build your own quiz
14 questions
Show Answers
See Preview
- 1. Multiple Choice
Who is the author of the poem?
Julia Alvarez
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Martín Espada
Ishmael Reed
- 2. Multiple Choice
For the author of this poem, Poetry became about social justice.
True
False
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of these options is NOT the writer's job?
Essayist
Editor
Attorney
Social Worker
- 4. Multiple Choice
When was the author born?
March 28, 1961
August 7, 1957
July 15, 1950
- 5. Multiple Choice
At what age did the protagonist of the poem worked at a printing plant?
16
22
14
20
- 6. Fill in the Blank
"I worked after high school hours at a printing plant that manufactured..."
- 7. Multiple Choice
The printing plant workers used gloves to perfect the paper.
True
False
- 8. Multiple Choice
The hands of the protagonist were cut with sharp scissors.
True
False
- 9. Multiple Choice
How many years later did the protagonist go to law school?
Twelve years later
Sixteen years later
Ten years later
Eight years later
- 10. Multiple Choice
In the first part of the poem, the protagonist is describing:
His current job
A job he had as a teenager
The challenges he faced in high school
The process of bookbinding
- 11. Multiple Choice
The work that the poem's first part describes requires:
Speed
Precision
Accurate Timing
Technical Training
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT among the themes this poem adresses?
The little-known ordeals involved in the creation of ordinary objects
The acknowledgment of the dignity of all kinds of work
The contrast between the speaker's relationship to legal pads as a factory worker and as a law student
The toll that after-school jobs take on the academic achievement of high school students
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of these does the speaker most strongly express at the end of the poem?
Recognition of what workers have had to undergo
Regret that he has chosen a career that entails the use of legal pads
Resentment about the working conditions he once had to bear
Relief that he can now use legal pads instead of making them
- 14. Multiple Choice
What is the literary device used in the following lines?
"Every open lawbook was a pair of hands upturned and burning"
Personification
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
- Answer choicesTagsAnswer choicesTags