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Theme Mini Test

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Question 1

1.

Read the passage and then answer questions 1 and 2.

You read a novel about a boy with leukemia. In the story, his mother loves him very much and is determined to find a cure for the boy. She takes him to the best hospitals in the country. She does tons of research and contacts people all over the world. People tell her to give up and that she’s wasting her time and money, but she doesn’t get better. Finally, when it seems there is no hope, a doctor prescribes a treatment that seems to help. By the end of the story, the boy is getting better and better, and it seems he will fully recover.

1. What is the recurring theme throughout this story?

All's well that ends well. 

Medicine is too expensive. 

You can't outwit death. 

Love conquers all. 

Question 2

2.

People tell her to give up and that she’s wasting her time and money, but she doesn’t listen to them.

Look at the sentence above. What theme from the passage is reflected in this sentence?

Other people usually know more than you do. 

The advice of others is often best advice. 

Follow your hearts instead of following others. 

Different ideas are helpful in solving difficult problems. 

Question 3

3.

Read the passage and answer questions 3 and 4.
Passage 2
Keith was stressed about his research paper. He had to write five pages about something that interested him, but he couldn't think of anything interesting. He decided that he would just play basketball. The next night Keith sat down to work on his paper again, but he still couldn't think of anything that interested him, so he listened to music and played video games instead. The next few days went much the same: he told himself that he wasn't interested in anything, and then he read comic books, watched movies, or read about classic cars. Keith was worried now because the paper was due very soon, and he still didn't even have a topic. He tried to think of something that he found interesting, but again he couldn't, so he just played his guitar and cooked a meal for his family. He loved to cook. At last the due date was here and Keith still didn't even have a topic. By now he had accepted that he would fail. "If only I could have found an interesting topic," he told himself.

3. What is the recurring theme throughout this story?

Accept your fate. 

Don't worry, be happy. 

It's important to have a lot of hobbies. 

The solutions to your problems are often under your nose. 

Question 4

4.

What evidence from the text supports the theme?

“If only I could have found an interesting topic.”

By now he had accepted that he would fail.

… so he just played his guitar and cooked a meal for his family. He loved to cook.

He tried to think of something that he found interesting…

Question 5

5.

Read Passages 3 and 4, then answer question 5.

Passage 3

The Old Man and Death from Aesop’s Fables
An old laborer, bent double with age and toil, was gathering sticks in a forest. At last he grew so tired and hopeless that he threw down the bundle of sticks, and cried out: "I cannot bear this life any longer. Ah, I wish Death would only come and take me!" As he spoke, Death, a grisly skeleton, appeared and said to him: "What wouldst thou, Mortal? I heard thee call me."
"Please, sir," replied the woodcutter, "would you kindly help me to lift this bundle of sticks on to my shoulder?"
Passage 4

“So this is it…
This is what I wished for
Just isn’t how I envisioned it
Famed to the point of imprisonment
I just thought it’d be different”
-Eminem

5. What theme do both authors address?

Accept your fate.

Be careful what you wish for.

Don’t complain.

Wishes are no good.