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Both Visiting Day and Knock Knock,which won a 2014 Coretta Scott King Award, describe black families torn apart by a father’s imprisonment, but their similarities end there.

In Visiting Day we see a family that still sees itself as a family. In Knock Knock, circumstances are harder to understand—just as they would be for a young child.

The boy at the center of Knock Knock begins the book by telling us of a game he and his father share: Every morning his father knocks on his bedroom door, and he pretends to be asleep until his father is beside his bed. Then he “jumps into his arms.” But one morning, the boy’s father isn’t there. The boy doesn’t know why, and we are left to guess the reason, and to read the boy’s letters to his absent father.

After a long time, the boy’s father writes back. “No longer will I be there to knock on your door,” he tells his son, “so you must learn to knock for yourself. Knock knock down the doors that I could not… Knock knock for me, for as long as you become your best.” The book ends with father and son reunited, but only after the boy we saw at the beginning of the book has grown into a man. Knock Knock began its life not as a children’s book but as a monologue(長篇 獨白 ), inspired by          author Daniel Beaty’s own experience of his father’s imprisonment, which began when Beaty was three years old. Visiting Day is a similarly personal story for its author, Jacqueline Woodson, and its illustrator(*圖 畫家 ), James E. Ransome. Ransome had previously kept the “family secret” of his  brother’s imprisonment, and Woodson grew up visiting her favorite uncle in prison.

32.   What is the similarity between Visiting Day and Knock Knock?

A.   Won similar prizes.                                B. Describe similar families.

C. Situations are harder to understand          D. Discuss how to avoid crimes on families. was the father absent from their daily game with his son?

A. He was too busy to spare time.               is playing a game with his son.

C. He went to prison for some reason.         D. He let him to learn to be independent.

34.   What are Visiting Day and Knock Knock based on?

A.   The authors’ personal experience.           B. The stories told by the illustrator.

C. Monologues that passers-by delivered.      D. The documents offered by a uncle in prison.

35.   What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows? ome’s brother. book Visiting Day.

stories of Daniel Beaty.                     D.A visit to Woodson’s favorite uncle.

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