Read "A Field of Wheat" and answer question

1. John's dominant quality is his

a. compassion
b. wisdom
c. strength
d. vitality

2.In context, the statement "She had loved John, for these sixteen years had stood close watching while he died" (lines 36-37) implies that John has
a. given up the struggle
b. destroyed his health
c. lost his intensity of spirit
d. stopped loving his wife

3.Which quotation illustrates Martha's MAIN response to past crop failures?

Select one:
a. "John was gone, love was gone; there was only wheat." (lines 39-40)
b. "He had had his share of failures and set-backs, if ever a man had, twenty times over." (lines 17-18)
c. " . . . hope climbing, wish-patterns painted on the future." (lines 31)
d. "Go on in bitterness and cowardice, because there was noting else but going on." (lines 34-35)

4.In which quotation is foreshadowing evident?

Select one:
a. "He had had his share of failures and set-backs." (lines 17-18)
b. " . . . the hush over everything was like a raised finger, forbidding her." (line 60)
c. "As she spoke there was a sharp, crunching blow on the roof." (line 81)
d. " . . . what would she be like in a few years?" (lines 52-53)

5.The reference to "waste of life" (line 135) suggests an attitude of

a. rebellion
b. futility
c. reference
d. hostility

6.The image that conveys the lessening of hope for a good crop is found ina. "how find the throat of a cloud" (lines 144-145)
b. "an isolated straw standing bolt upright in headless defiance" (lines 105-106)
c. "suddenly a bewildering awareness that the light was choked" (lines 61-62)
d. "like a weapon that has sunk deep into flesh" (line 82)

7.In the course of the entire excerpt, Martha's attitude toward John undergoes a change from

a. disillusionment to understanding
b. hate to love
c. hope to despair
d. apprehension to condescension

8.Martha's outlook is ultimately one of

a. resolve
b. expectation
c. fear
d. anxiety