Baseball/One Writers Beginnings

1. What can you infer from the following sentence from “Baseball”? The way we played baseball was to rotate positions after every out.

The children made up their own rules for their baseball games

The author is an expert on the game of baseball.

The children didn’t like playing baseball.

2. What did Uncle Adolfo in “Baseball” mean when he said, “What a waste of a good ball.”

Father Zavala took the ball.

The children only had one expensive ball.

The children did not know how to play baseball correctly.

3. Why does Lionel García include the following passage in “Baseball”? One time we wound up all the way across town before we cornered Juan against a fence, held him down, and hit him with the ball. Afterwards, we all fell laughing in a pile on top of each other, exhausted from the run through town.

To show how much enjoyment he and his friends had playing their unusual kind of baseball

To explain the fastest method of getting across town

To explain how even an unusual game can have rules that must be followed

4. Why did Father Zavala in “Baseball” love to watch the children play baseball?

The children enjoyed it so much.

It kept the children busy running all over town.

The old men of the town could watch the baseball game too.

5. We can infer from the phrase in “Baseball” “. . . marveling at our ignorance” that

The boys are not very smart

The boys did not understand the real rules of baseball

Uncle Adolfo was upset with the boys

6. In “Baseball,” Lionel García says that children with whom he played baseball when he was a boy

Had the best equipment at home

Used good equipment at school

Had inadequate equipment

Didn’t like to use aluminum bats

7. Which of the sentences below best sums up the meaning of the following passage from One Writer’s Beginnings? The word moon came into my mouth as though fed to me out of a silver spoon. Held in my mouth the moon became a word. It had the roundness of a Concord grape Grandpa took off his vine and gave me to suck out of its skin and swallow whole, in Ohio.

The moon was like a grape eaten once in Ohio.

Welty understood the object in the sky and the word moon were connected.

Welty was fed the word moon on a spoon.

8. In a nonfiction piece of writing, such as One Writer’s Beginnings, one clue the reader can use to know the selection is an autobiography is

The use of action verbs

The use of first-person pronouns

The description of the daffodils

The description of the kindergarten class

9. You can tell that “Baseball” is autobiographical because

The author includes thoughts and feelings that only he would know

The game of baseball is described in detail

The story is about Lionel García.

10. In One Writer’s Beginnings, what did the literary critic mean when he said, “Always be sure you get your moon in the right part of the sky.”

Use the telescope to find the moon.

Put the moon at the side in a painting.

Be accurate when you write.

11. As she discusses in One Writer’s Beginnings, what did Welty learn incorrectly when she was a child?

The moon rises in the west.

Daffodils smell like her yellow pencil.

The sun rises in the east.

12. What is Eudora Welty’s purpose for writing One Writer’s Beginnings?

To entertain the reader

To publish her writing in a book

To teach the reader about her early education

13. Which statement is closest to Eudora Welty’s idea of childhood education in One Writer’s Beginnings?

Childhood learning occurs in bursts of knowledge.

Childhood learning occurs in a continuous flow.

Childhood learning is unimportant.