When the Screen Went Dark

• ○A. An outside narrator reports what every guest thinks about the storm.
• ○B. A student volunteer tells the experience through a first-person viewpoint.
• ○C. Selin tells the experience through her own first-person viewpoint.
• ○D. An outside narrator addresses the reader as a volunteer at the event.

• ○A. To persuade Selin to take charge of the evening
• ○B. To keep the arrangements under personal control
• ○C. To replace the movie with a different activity
• ○D. To join the families watching the weather indoors

By seven, our outdoor movie screen stood above the community center lawn like an enormous white envelope.I had spent the afternoon helping my cousin Selin arrange chairs.Now I stood beside my careful rows, holding the seating chart against my chest.This was my first evening volunteering, and I wanted everything to stay exactly where I had put it.

• ○A. It introduces a weather problem that interrupts the narrator’s careful plan.
• ○B. It explains how the narrator learned to arrange chairs before the event.
• ○C. It resolves the narrator’s concern by showing that the storm has passed.
• ○D. It shifts the setting to another event with a different group of volunteers.

• ○A. It contrasts the narrator’s concern for the setup with Selin’s urgency.
• ○B. It shows that both characters agree the chairs should come first.
• ○C. It explains why Selin has decided to cancel the movie herself.
• ○D. It reveals that neither character has heard the director’s instructions.

• ○A. A summary of the whole evening moves quickly past the rain.
• ○B. A sequence of tiny observations stretches out the rain’s arrival.
• ○C. A flashback interrupts the storm to describe an earlier evening.
• ○D. A long conversation delays the account of the changing weather.

• ○A. The storm outside the lobby seemed powerful and quite unusual.
• ○B. The lobby windows reflected the bright ceiling lights above us.
• ○C. The wet evening reminded me of several other stormy nights.
• ○D. Rain rattled the metal awning above the lobby’s entrance doors.

• ○A. The narrator brushed a damp card across a sleeve and made room for a player.
• ○B. You brush a damp card across your sleeve and make room for another player.
• ○C. I brushed a damp card across my sleeve and made room for another player.
• ○D. Selin secretly decided that the narrator had finally learned an important lesson.

• ○A. Add dialogue for each driver so every arrival becomes a complete scene.
• ○B. Move the parking account to the ending without shortening its details.
• ○C. Condense the arrivals into one sentence before the chair setup begins.
• ○D. Replace the parking account with a long list of the guests’ belongings.

• ○A. Earlier that afternoon, Selin took out a deck of cards.
• ○B. After several quiet minutes, Selin took out a deck of cards.
• ○C. Before anyone went inside, Selin took out a deck of cards.
• ○D. Meanwhile, out on the lawn, Selin took out a deck of cards.

• ○A. “The chairs were straight before the wind came,” I told Selin.
• ○B. “Pull up a chair; we can teach you as we play,” I told a family.
• ○C. “This chart is getting harder to read,” I said, unfolding the paper.
• ○D. “My dad should be here later tonight,” I said, watching the door.

• ○A. It shows the narrator choosing the shared activity over the original arrangements.
• ○B. It shows the narrator preparing to restore the original seating before leaving.
• ○C. It shows the narrator expecting the director to restart the outdoor movie.
• ○D. It shows the narrator deciding to stop volunteering at future community events.