Scientists know that chimpanzees rank high in intelligence among animals. Even so, they are not always prepared for the lightning-quick thinking a chimp sometimes does. Take the time an experimenter hung a banana from the ceiling of an empty room, five feet above the chimp's
reach. Then he scattered boxes on the floor. What would the chimp do? Would he stack the boxes until they were high enough so that he could
climb on them to reach the banana? The chimp had an idea of his own. He took one look at the banana; then he grabbed the man by the seat of the
pants and dragged him back to a spot directly beneath the fruit with one leap, he jumped on the shoulders of the man and grabbed the fruit. All
this took a fraction of the time he would have needed to stack up the boxes.

Read the excerpt from the poem "growing up italian" by maria mazziotti gillan and answer the question that follows. when i was a little girl, i thought everyone was italian, and that was good. we visted our aunts and uncles, and they visted us. the italian language smooth and sweet in my mouth. in kindergarten, english words fell on me, thick and sharp as hail. i grew silent, the italian word balanced on the edge of my tongue and the english word, lost during the first moment of every question. source: gillan, maria mazziotti. "growing up italian." poetrymagazine.com. poetry magazine, n.d. web. 30 mar. 2011. what is the tone of this poem? what does the tone reveal about the speaker of the poem and the conflict she faces? based on this excerpt, what can you predict about the theme of the poem?