"America and I" by Anzia YezierskaThe questions in this section pertain to "America and I" by Anzia Yezierska.

Question 21 (4 points) Question 21 Saved
How does the trip to the vocational guidance office affect the narrator?

Question 21 options:

She learns to try harder and show more pride in her work


She realizes America is not the perfect place of her dreams


She begins to seek out additional educational opportunities


She thinks about moving back home to Russia to escape immigrant life

Question 22 (4 points) Question 22 Saved
How does the author compare the “Old World” to America in the beginning of the text?

Question 22 options:

She describes the Old World as a place of boring, stifling tradition, as opposed to the new and evolving culture of America.


She describes the Old World as a comforting place with values focused on community and acceptance, as opposed to hostile America.


She describes the Old World as a burial site or cemetery, as opposed to the heavenly paradise that is America.


She describes the Old World as dark, confining, and hopeless, as opposed to the brightness and freedom of opportunity in America.

Question 23 (4 points) Question 23 Saved
[45] “Who am I? What am I? What do I want with my life? Where is America? Is there an America? What is this wilderness in which I’m lost?”



What does the speaker mean when she asks “Where is America?” in paragraph 45 and how does this impact the text’s meaning?

Question 23 options:

The speaker is literally lost while wandering around at night and wants to find her way home, but she doesn’t feel that America is her home.


The speaker feels lost in America, but more importantly she feels as if she has lost the imagined America of her dreams.


The speaker believes that Americans have lost sight of their values and so have made America a dangerous wilderness.


The speaker cannot think of herself as anything but a worker and so she feel that she has lost herself in America.

Question 24 (4 points) Question 24 Saved
Which phrase best describes the narrator?

Question 24 options:

a dumb, voiceless one


an immigrant who goes to America


a pregnant woman with nowhere to go


a student who goes abroad to study

Question 25 (4 points) Question 25 Saved
Why does the narrator trust the American family in her first job?

Question 25 options:

because they are close friends from her old village


because they are relatives of hers


because she won’t have a need for wages if she stays with them


because she has no other choice if she wants to “become an American”