Grade 8 Prentice Hall Lit. Unit 4 Poetry Tests Bundle (17 total)

This bundle of 17 tests on 31 poetry reading selections from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 8 ISBN-10: 0131317164 Unit 4 Poetry includes multiple-choice questions (number varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). Some tests cover several reading selections. It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection including: summarization, main idea, characterization, author’s purpose, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, figurative language, fact & opinion, analogies, and other elements of literature. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. This is over a $40 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated!

Included tests listed below:

UNIT 4: POETRY (17 TESTS TOTAL)

“Describe Somebody” and “Almost a Summer Sky,” Jacqueline Woodson (17 & 25 questions)
“Cat!,” Eleanor Farjeon (20 questions)
“Silver,” Walter de la Mare (13 questions)
“Your World,” Georgia Douglas Johnson (14 questions)
“Thumbprint,” Eve Merriam (13 questions)
“The Drum (for Martin Luther King, Jr.),” Nikki Giovanni (12 questions)
“Ring Out, Wild Bells,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18 questions)
“Concrete Mixers,” Patricia Hubbell (17 questions)
“Harlem Night Song,” Langston Hughes (13 questions)
“The City Is So Big,” Richard García (11 questions)
“Ode to Enchanted Light,” Pablo Neruda (13 questions)
“Little Exercise,” Elizabeth Bishop (18 questions)
“The Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are Mean,” Emily Dickinson (14 questions)
“Southbound on the Freeway,” May Swenson (16 questions)
“The Country,” Billy Collins (12 questions)
“The Choice,” Dorothy Parker (15 questions)
“Runagate Runagate,” Robert Hayden (25 questions)
“Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind,” William Shakespeare (18 questions)
“Old Man,” Ricardo Sánchez (20 questions)
“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus (11 questions)
“Paul Revere’s Ride,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (36 questions)
“Harriet Beecher Stowe,” Paul Laurence Dunbar (23 questions)
“January,” John Updike (19 questions)
“New World,” N. Scott Momaday (19 questions)
“For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties,” Alice Walker (33 questions)
“Grandma Ling,” Amy Ling (16 questions)
“Drum Song,” Wendy Rose (12 questions)
“your little voice / Over the wires came leaping,” E. E. Cummings (13 questions)
“The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost (20 questions)
“O Captain! My Captain!,” Walt Whitman (21 questions)

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