7.RL.10: Read and Comprehend Grade 7 Literature

Read the excerpt from the poem and answer the questions.

from"The Wishing-Caps"by Rudyard Kipling

Life's all getting and giving,
I've only myself to give.
What shall I do for a living?
I've only one life to live.
End it? I'll not find another.
Spend it? But how shall I best?
Sure the wise plan is to live like a man
And Luck may look after the rest!
Largesse! Largesse, Fortune!
Give or hold at your will.
If I've no care for Fortune,
Fortune must follow me still.

1. What is the meaning of the word largesse in the poem?

  1. generosity
  2. kindness
  3. reward
  4. readiness

2. What is the main idea of the excerpt?

  1. The author is speculating on work and money.
  2. The author is questioning his luck.
  3. The author is questioning his worth as a person.
  4. The author is speculating about what it means to be human.

3. What is the meaning of the final two lines of the poem?

  1. You are more likely to have luck if you don't worry about it.
  2. No one is as unlucky as they think they are.
  3. If you are a good person, money will come to you.
  4. If you think you are lucky, you will make money.

Read the excerpt from "Nobody's Story" by Charles Dickens and answer the questions.

He lived on the bank of a mighty river, broad and deep, which wasalways silently rolling on to a vast undiscovered ocean. It hadrolled on, ever since the world began. It had changed its coursesometimes, and turned into new channels, leaving its old ways dryand barren; but it had ever been upon the flow, and ever was to flowuntil Time should be no more. Against its strong, unfathomablestream, nothing made head. No living creature, no flower, no leaf,no particle of animate or inanimate existence, ever strayed backfrom the undiscovered ocean. The tide of the river set resistlesslytowards it; and the tide never stopped, any more than the earthstops in its circling round the sun.

1. What is the purpose of this paragraph?

  1. to establish the setting
  2. to establish the character
  3. to give background information about what has happened in the past
  4. to show the conflictof the character

2. Why is the word "Time" capitalized in the excerpt?

  1. because itis a word that needs to bedefined
  2. because itimplies that Time is very important
  3. because it isa proper noun in the passage
  4. because Time is the name of the setting