Selection Quick Checks (English)



1.	What caused the narrator to write a note to God and then destroy it?
	A.	her guinea pig was dying
	B.	she herself was very sick
	C.	she was eleven years old
	D.	her brother was having heart surgery

2.	What is one problem mentioned in the passage that may arise when you send your deepest thoughts by e-mail or instant message?
	A.	You probably won't write your true feelings.
	B.	You may end up sending the message to people that you don't want to see the message.
	C.	You can never be really sure if the message has been sent.
	D.	You end up wasting time writing to people who may not care about what you have to say.

3.	Why did the speaker decide to keep her unsent letters in a shoebox in her closet?
	A.	Someone at school tried to pull out one of the notes she put in the storm drain.
	B.	She saw her brother reading one of the notes she wrote.
	C.	She wanted to save them so she could look back at them.
	D.	One of her teachers found out that she was writing about her during class.

4.	Late in her college years, what did the narrator do with her collection of letters?
	A.	She gathered them and used them as the basis for her first novel.
	B.	She brought them to a shredder and had them all torn up.
	C.	She burned the entire collection, one letter at a time.
	D.	She put them away in a safe area until she finished college.

5.	Why was the narrator especially glad that she had not mailed the letter to the well-known critic who gave her first novel an unfavorable review?
	A.	She realized some of what she had written was inaccurate.
	B.	The critic later regretted making negative comments about her first novel.
	C.	Other critics also gave her novel unfavorable reviews, so it would have been unfair to single out that one.
	D.	The critic gave a very positive review to one of her later novels.

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