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Think Up Assessment - RL 7.1 - "The Mysterious Case" (8.15)

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EX.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.2

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EX.ELA-Literacy.L.7.4.a

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EX.ELA-Literacy.L.7.4.a

Read the passage, incorporating your Scratch Paper Strategies, to answer each question.

Question 1

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Which theme is developed in this story?

All’s well that ends well.

Secrets are hard to discover.

Jealousy is a natural human emotion.

Those who help others will be rewarded.

Which sentence from the story supports the answer to Question 1?

“I made a vow that I would penetrate the secret of what looked like a persistent attempt upon this poor girl’s life.”

“I learned little or nothing.”

“… she had conceived the idea that he intended to marry the latter, and, vowing vengeance, had taken up in the same house with the innocent girl.”

“… a marriage ensued, which I have every reason to believe is a happy one.”

Read the thesaurus entry.
     *immediate (adj.) — direct, nearby, quick, urgent

Which word matches the way immediate is used in the sentence, “And yet when, two hours later, without her having left the room or anybody coming into it, poison was in the cup, and the patient was only saved from death by the most immediate measures”?

direct

nearby

quick

urgent

According to the story, why is the woman who tries to poison Miss Wilcox able to take this action?

because her victim considers her a friend

because her landlady knows little about her

because the rooms are separated by a thin partition

because the boardinghouse has more than one floor

Which is the best summary of the story?

A doctor meets a woman on the stairs of a boardinghouse and instantly feels suspicious of her. Later that evening, the doctor watches over the patient, a lovely young woman who has been mysteriously poisoned.

A young woman continues to worsen despite the medical care she is receiving. Because she is beautiful and kind, the doctor first suspects her nurse and then the neighbor who lives in the room next to hers.

A doctor investigates the possible poisoning of a young female patient. When the doctor suspects a culprit, a trap is devised to successfully catch the young woman’s neighbor in a murder attempt.

A young woman’s illness is suspected to be poisoning, so her doctor questions her nurse and slowly pieces together clues. After discovering the truth, the doctor calls the landlady and explains what happened.

How does the encounter between the doctor and the woman on the stairs affect the plot of the story?

The encounter inserts a note of humor into a tense situation.

The encounter provides a flashback that helps characterize the doctor.

The encounter makes the doctor feel suspicious of everyone in the boardinghouse.

The encounter causes the doctor to decide Miss Wilcox will remain at the boardinghouse.

Read the sentences from the story.

"My idea was this—the nurse had been forced to either poison the glass herself or open the door for another to do it. If this were so, she or the other person would be obliged to pass around the foot of the bed to reach the glass, and I should be sure to see it."

In these sentences, what does the word obliged mean?

able

eager

expected

forced

Read this paragraph from the story.

"I gasped—but I did not stir. And then—look! the glass is returning; the hand—a woman’s hand— is slowly setting it back in its place—"

How does the change from past tense to present tense verbs affect the paragraph?

by helping the reader envision the events as they occur

by imparting a sense of urgency during the climax of the story

by demonstrating how difficult it was for the doctor to stay awake

by conveying the passage of time during the course of the night’s events

Based on the story, why does the young man propose to Miss Wilcox?

He hopes to repay the doctor for the care he gave Miss Wilcox and for the discovery of the attempted murderess.

He feels responsible for the pain Miss Wilcox has endured and wants to protect her from any further harm.

He wants to prove, once and for all, that he does not have romantic feelings for the jealous woman.

He realizes that his life would be meaningless without Miss Wilcox in it.

Which option corrects a punctuation error in the underlined sentence?

"When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle imagined the fictional character Sherlock Holmes in 1887, he likely could not comprehend the character’s sensational impression on the imaginations of readers. Sherlock Holmes embodies the hallmarks of the British detective intelligent, sophisticated, observant, and obsessive. Doyle was inspired to create the character upon meeting Dr. Joseph Bell, a professor at the medical school of Edinburgh University."

Sherlock Holmes embodies the hallmarks of the British detective intelligent, sophisticated, observant and obsessive.

Sherlock Holmes embodies the hallmarks of the British detective: intelligent, sophisticated, observant, and obsessive.

Sherlock Holmes—embodies the hallmarks of the British detective intelligent, sophisticated, observant, and obsessive.

Sherlock Holmes embodies the hallmarks of the “British” detective intelligent, sophisticated, observant, and obsessive.