Questions ELA 8 - Mrs. Gonias

Name: ______Date: ______

Directions: Read the questions carefully and use specific textual evidence to support your response. If you do not know an answer to a question, place a star in front of the number.

CHALLENGE: Use in-text APA citations! I have inserted a few in-text citations throughout the questions as examples (optional)

1. Why does Brother Vu want to cut down the ripening fruit rather than let the Communists have it?

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2. Why does mother advise her children to “…eat fresh fruit while you can” (Lai, 2011, p. 60)?

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3. What does the chopping of the papaya fruit in stanza 4 of “Wet and Crying” symbolize?

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4. What does the author mean by there is “…no such thing as a secret among the Vietnamese” (Lai, 2011, p. 61)?

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5. How should the reader visualize the port, as described in the poem “Wet and Crying”?

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6. In the last stanza of “Wet and Crying”, why does Ha “…promise…to never again make fun of Bruce Lee” (Lai, 2011, p. 62)?

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7. How should the reader visualize the ship based on the poem “One Mat Each”?

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8. “…because what if they had been stopped..” (Lai, 2011, p. 64) How do you think the lives of the refugees would have been if they had been stopped?

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9. What does Uncle Son represent?

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10. Compare the night sky in the poem “In the Dark” to a night sky you have seen.

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11. Make an inference based on line 3 of the poem “Saigon is Gone”?

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12. Why does the author refer to the bombs as “…ever greater [in the] distance” (Lai, 2011, p. 67)?

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13. Why does the pilot shout “…It’s over; Saigon is gone” (Lai, 2011, p. 69)?

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14. Describe the sequence of events of Part I (Use only specific details in this answer are to support yourself. If the details are not necessary or relevant to the sequence of events, do not include them)

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15. Why does the author choose to write specific stanzas in italics?

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16. Make an inference of what you think “At Sea” will be about.

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References

Lai, Thanhha. (2011). Inside Out & Back Again (1st Edition). New York: Harper Collins Publishers.