Read these lines from the poem "I, Too."

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.

The poet most likely includes these lines to

The following item should be answered upon reading Anna and the King which was originally reprinted for the English HSA from Literary Cavalcade, January 2000, by permission of Scholastic Inc. This passage has been removed from the mdk12.org website due to copyright restrictions.

Anna and the King is a screenplay about an English woman, Anna Leonowens, who accepts a position to tutor the son of the King of Siam. During her first encounter with the King, he unexpectedly adds to her responsibilities.

In the stage directions at the beginning of the scene, details such as “deep red carpet” and “golden throne” create an atmosphere of

Read the essay “High Tide in Tucson.” Then answer the following.

Read this sentence from the essay.

Then, while we watched in stunned reverence, the strange beast found its bearings and began to reveal a determined, crabby grace.

The author most likely includes the phrase “determined crabby grace” to suggest

Read the essay “A Sea Worry.” Then answer the following:

Read this sentence from paragraph 10 of the essay.

The strip of cliff pulverized into sand is Sandy’s.

The author most likely uses pulverized instead of crumbled to

The following item should be answered upon reading the excerpt “Wanderlust” from the autobiography A Life on the Road by Charles Kuralt, which can be found at most local or school libraries.

“Wanderlust” is a memoir of Kuralt’s early life on the road with his father, his childhood experiences on the farm, and the memory of winning a journalistic contest at age twelve.

Read these sentences from the end of paragraph 8.

They are words that still give me a little thrill of importance all these years later. I did my twelve-year-old best to growl them like a veteran.

Kuralt most likely uses the word growl instead of say to suggest that he is

Read the story “Nonrepresentational Art.” Then answer the following item.

Read the following sentence from paragraph 11 of the story.

Mama rose from the wheelchair and swept up to the door with her walking stick in full play.

The author uses the word swept instead of walked mostly to emphasize

Read the poem “The Gift.” Then answer the following item.

Read lines 6 through 8 from the poem.

I can’t remember the tale,
but hear his voice still, a well
of dark water, a prayer.

The images in these lines mostly suggest that

Read this excerpt from the first chapter of The Sea of Grass, a novel set in New Mexico in the late 1800s. Then answer the following item.

Read this sentence from the excerpt.

And I think that I shall never see it flowing through human veins again as it did in my Uncle Jim Brewton riding a lathered horse . . . and holding together his empire of grass and cattle by the fire in his eyes.

The phrase “fire in his eyes” suggests that Uncle Jim is

Read the essay “Water.” Then answer the following item.

Read this sentence from the first paragraph of the essay.

Ten liters of water weighs twenty-two pounds, a fifth of a woman’s body weight, and I’ve seen women carry at least twenty liters in aluminum pots large enough to hold a television set.

The author most likely uses the phrase “aluminum pots large enough to hold a television set” to

Read the poem “Hope.” Then answer the following item.

Which of these lines from the poem best shows the importance of the rain?