Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Barry Multiple Choice Exam

Today, we began using a second Dave Barry piece "Lost in the Kitchen" (read if you were absent)  to create a multiple choice exam.

Use the following sentence stems to help you write quality questions. (Each person is responsible for 2 questions)
Your answers should be more than one word options.  We will fine tune these in class tomorrow.

Look at the example below of a function question 
The rhetorical function of the phrase "[…]and raises a mighty dust where there was none before," (line 20) is
   
A. an indication of the fact that man is inherently dirty
   
B. to create a metaphorical reference to the amount of trouble man creates
   
C. to allude to the ease with which the man, like a broomstick, accomplishes his task
   
D. to juxtapose the woman's sweeping with the man's position as the broom
   
E. to show a parallel relationship between the broomstick and man