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PMA 1 Review#2 -Honors - from The Man Who Knew Too Much

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21 questions
Directions:
You have 5 mins to read chunk 1
Show your work -
Underline in yellow words and phrases that describe Michael O'Neill, his emotions and his actions.
Underline in green, words and phrases that describe Bridget Royce, her emotions and her actions.

Write a sentence summary of chunk 1
from The Man Who Knew Too Much
by G.K. Chesterton

II. THE VANISHING PRINCE

Chunk 1

1 This tale begins among a tangle of tales round a name that is at once recent and legendary. The name is that of Michael O’Neill, popularly called Prince Michael, partly because he claimed descent from ancient Fenian princes, and partly because he was credited with a plan to make himself prince president of Ireland, as the last Napoleon did of France. He was undoubtedly a gentleman of honorable pedigree and of many accomplishments, but two of his accomplishments emerged from all the rest. He had a talent for appering when he was not wanted and a talent for disappearing when he was wanted, especially when he was wanted by the police. It may be added that his disappearances were more dangerous than his appearances. In the latter he seldom went beyond the sensational - pasting up seditious placards, tearing down official placards, making flamboyant speeches, or unfurling forbidden flags. But in order to effect the former he would sometimes fight for his freedom with startling energy, from which men were sometimes lucky to escape with a broken head instead of a broken neck. His most famous feats of escape, however, were due to dexterity and not to violence. On a cloudless summer morning he had come down a country road white with dust, and pausing outside a farmhouse, had told the farmer’s daughter, with elegant indifference, that the local police were in pursuit of him. The girl’s name was Bridget Royce, a somber and even sullen type of beauty, and she looked at him darkly, as if in doubt, and said, “Do you want me to hide you?” Upon which he only laughed, leaped lightly over the stone wall, and strode toward the farm, merely throwing over his shoulder the remark, “Thank you, I have generally been quite capable of hiding myself.” In which proceeding he acted with a tragic ignorance of the nature of women; and there fell on his path in that sunshine a shadow of doom.
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Underline in yellow words and phrases that describe Michael O'Neill
Underline in green, words and phrases that describe Bridget Royce

Write a sentence summary of chunk 1

Directions:

You have 5 mins to read chunk 2

Show your work -
Underline in yellow words and phrases that describe Michael O'Neill
Underline in green, words and phrases that describe Bridget Royce

Write a sentence summary of chunk 2
Chunk 2

While he disappeared through the farmhouse the girl remained for a few moments looking up the road, and two perspiring policemen came plowing up to the door where she stood. Though still angry, she was still silent, and a quarter of an hour later the officers had searched the house and were already inspecting the kitchen garden and cornfield behind it. In the ugly reaction of her mood she might have been tempted even to point out the fugitive, but for a small difficulty that she had no more notion than the policemen had of where he could possibly have gone. The kitchen garden was inclosed by a very low wall, and the cornfield beyond lay aslant like a square patch on a great green hill on which he could still have been seen even as a dot in the distance. Everything stood solid in its familiar place: the apple tree was too small to support or hide a climber; the only shed stood open and obviously empty; there was no sound save the droning of summer flies and the occasional flutter of a bird unfamiliar enough to be surprised by the scarecrow in the field; there was scarecly a shadow save a few blue lines that fell from the thin tree; every detail was picked out by the brilliant day light as if in a microscope. The girl described the scene later, with all the passionate realism of her race, and, whether or no the policeman had a similar eye for the picturesque, they had at least an eye for the facts of the case, and were compelled to give up the chase and retire from the scene. Bridget Royce remained as if in a trance, staring at the sunlit garden in which a man had just vanished like a fairy. She was still in a sinister mood, and the miracle took in her mind a character of unfriendliness and fear, as if the fairy were decidedly a bad fairy. The sun upon the glittering garden depressed her more than the darkness, but she continued to stare at it. Then the world itself went half-witted and she screamed. The scarecrow moved in the sunlight. It had stood with its back to her in a battered old black hat and a tattered garment and with all its tatters flying it strode away across the hill.
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Underline in yellow words and phrases that describe Michael O'Neill
Underline in green, words and phrases that describe Bridget Royce

Write a sentence summary of chunk 2

Directions:

You have 7 mins to read chunks 3 and 4

Show your work -
Underline in yellow words and phrases that describe Michael O'Neill
Underline in green, words and phrases that describe Bridget Royce

Write sentence summaries for chunks 3 and 4.
Chunk 3

She did not analyze the audacious trick by which the man had turned to his advantage the subtle effects of the expected and the obvious; she was still under the cloud of more individual complexities, and she noticed most of all that the vanishing scarecrow did not even turn to look at the farm. And the fates that were running so adverse to his fantastic career of freedom ruled that his next adventure, though it had the same success in another quarter, should increase the danger in this quarter. Among the many similar adventures related of him in this manner it is also said that somedays afterward another girl, named Mary Cregan, found him concealed on the farm where she worked; and if the story is true, she must also have had the shock of an uncanny experience, for when she was busy at some lonely task in the yard she heard a voice speaking out of the well, and found that the eccentric had managed to drop himself into the bucket which was some little way below the well only partly full of water. In this case, however, he had to appeal to the woman to wind up the rope. And men say it was when this news was told to the other woman that her sould walked over the borderline of treason.


pell-mell: in a confused; disorderly manner
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Underline in yellow words and phrases that describe Michael O'Neill
Underline in green, words and phrases that describe Bridget Royce

Write sentence summaries for chunks 3 and 4.

Chunk 4

Such, at least, were the stories told of him in the countryside, and there were many more- as that he had stood insolently in a splendid green dressing gown on the steps of a great hotel, and then led the police on a chase through a long suite of grand apartments, and finally through his own bedroom onto a balcony that overhung the river. The moment the pursuers stepped onto the balcony, it broke under them and they dropped pell-mell into the eddying waters, while Michael, who had thrown off his gown and dived, was able to swim away.



pell-mell: in a confused; disorderly manner
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Sentence Summary:

Directions : You have 3 mins to answer questions 5 and 6.

Be prepared to explain your thinking.
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Which evidence supports the idea that Michael O’Neil is very clever? (RL 1.1)

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How does the evidence that you selected provide the best support?

Directions : You have 3 mins to answer questions 7 and 8.

Be prepared to explain your thinking.
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In paragraph 2, the author describes the farmyard as being normal with everything in place.. What effect does this description have on the passage? (RL 2.5)

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Select the phrase that foreshadows what the farmer’s daughter discovers about Michael at the end of paragraph 2. (RL 1.1)

Directions : You have 5 mins to answer questions 9 and 10.

Be prepared to explain your thinking.
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(RL.2.4) Read the sentence from the passage:

“His most famous feats of escape, however, were due to dexterity and not to violence.” (paragraph 1)

Which two actions demonstrate Michael O’Niell’s dexterity

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Explain your answer for question 9

Directions : You have 3 mins to answer questions 10 and 11.

Be prepared to explain your thinking.
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Read the sentence from the passage:

“The girl’s name was Bridget Royce, a somber and even sullen type of beauty, and she looked at him darkly, as if in doubt, and said, “Do you want me to hide you?”” (paragraph 1)

What does the word somber suggest about Bridget?

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Explain your answer for question 11.

Directions : You have 3 mins to answer questions 13 and 14.
Be prepared to explain your thinking.
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What is the author’s perspective of Michael O'Neill?

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What textual evidence supports your response?

Directions : You have 3 mins to answer question 15.

Be prepared to explain your thinking.
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Read the sentence from the passage:

“He was undoubtedly a gentleman of honorable pedigree and of many accomplishments, but
two of his accomplishments emerged from all the rest.” (paragraph 1)

What does the phrase “undoubtedly a gentleman of honorable pedigree” suggest about Michael O'Neill?

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Explain your answer for question 15.

Directions : You have 5 mins to answer questions 17 and 18.

Be prepared to explain your thinking.
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PART A: How does Bridget’s disposition change after her first interaction with Michael
O'Neill in paragraph 1?

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PART B: Which two details from the passage support the answer in Part A?

Directions : You have 3 mins to answer question 19.
Be prepared to explain your thinking.
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Read the sentence from the passage:

“He had a talent for appearing when he was not wanted and a talent for disappearing when he was wanted, especially when he was wanted by the police. It may be added that his disappearances were more dangerous than his appearances. In the latter he seldom went beyond the sensational - pasting up seditious placards, tearing down official placards, making flamboyant speeches, or unfurling forbidden flags.”

How does the author’s word choice affect the tone of the passage?

Directions : You have 3 mins to answer questions 20 and 21.

Be prepared to explain your thinking.
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PART A: How does Michael O’Neill’s interaction with Bridget Royce advance the theme of the passage?

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PART B: Which detail supports the answer to Part A?

Directions : You have 3 mins to answer question 22.

Be prepared to explain your thinking.