Reading Literary Text Unit Test
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Question
Use the text from American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa to answer the question.
Soon after breakfast mother sometimes began her beadwork. On a bright, clear day, she pulled out the wooden pegs that pinned the skirt of our wigwam to the ground, and rolled the canvas part way up on its frame of slender poles. Then the cool morning breezes swept freely through our dwelling, now and then wafting the perfume of sweet grasses from newly burnt prairie.
Untying the long tasseled strings that bound a small brown buckskin bag, my mother spread upon a mat beside her bunches of colored beads, just as an artist arranges the paints upon his palette. On a lapboard she smoothed out a double sheet of soft white buckskin; and drawing from a beaded case that hung on the left of her wide belt a long, narrow blade, she trimmed the buckskin into shape. Often she worked upon small moccasins for her small daughter. Then I became intensely interested in her designing. With a proud, beaming face, I watched her work. In imagination, I saw myself walking in a new pair of snugly fitting moccasins. I felt the envious eyes of my playmates upon the pretty red beads decorating my feet.
Close beside my mother I sat on a rug, with a scrap of buckskin in one hand and an awl in the other. This was the beginning of my practical observation lessons in the art of beadwork. From a skein of finely twisted threads of silvery sinews my mother pulled out a single one. With an awl she pierced the buckskin, and skillfully threaded it with the white sinew. Picking up the tiny beads one by one, she strung them with the point of her thread, always twisting it carefully after every stitch.
Based on the text, which of the following excerpts supports the idea that beadwork was common for many things in Sioux culture?
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Untying the long-tasseled strings that bound a small brown buckskin bag, my mother spread upon a mat beside her bunches of colored beads.
Untying the long-tasseled strings that bound a small brown buckskin bag, my mother spread upon a mat beside her bunches of colored beads.
This was the beginning of my practical observation lessons in the art of beadwork.
This was the beginning of my practical observation lessons in the art of beadwork.
In imagination, I saw myself walking in a new pair of snugly fitting moccasins.
In imagination, I saw myself walking in a new pair of snugly fitting moccasins.
Drawing from a beaded case that hung on the left of her wide belt a long, narrow blade, she trimmed the buckskin into shape.
Drawing from a beaded case that hung on the left of her wide belt a long, narrow blade, she trimmed the buckskin into shape.
To answer this question, we need to look for evidence in the text that supports the idea that beadwork was common for many things in Sioux culture. Let's analyze the given options:
1. "Untying the long-tasseled strings that bound a small brown buckskin bag, my mother spread upon a mat beside her bunches of colored beads." This excerpt indicates that the mother has a collection of colored beads and uses them next to a small buckskin bag. This suggests that beadwork is common in Sioux culture for decorating and embellishing various objects.
2. "This was the beginning of my practical observation lessons in the art of beadwork." Although this passage mentions beadwork, it doesn't directly support the idea that beadwork was common for many things in Sioux culture.
3. "In imagination, I saw myself walking in a new pair of snugly fitting moccasins." This excerpt doesn't provide evidence about beadwork being common in Sioux culture. It simply mentions the narrator's desire to wear new moccasins.
4. "Drawing from a beaded case that hung on the left of her wide belt a long, narrow blade, she trimmed the buckskin into shape." This sentence suggests that the mother has a beaded case containing a blade used for trimming buckskin. While it demonstrates that beadwork tools are part of Sioux culture, it doesn't specifically support the idea that beadwork was common for many things.
Based on the analysis, the excerpt that directly supports the idea that beadwork was common for many things in Sioux culture is: "Untying the long-tasseled strings that bound a small brown buckskin bag, my mother spread upon a mat beside her bunches of colored beads."