Questions for excerpt from "How to Disappear"

Questions for the excerpt from How to Disappear

These are the types of questions on your test, but you will have a different text to read and answer questions over.

Materials Needed

Electronic Device and the copy of your excerpt from How to Disappear

SAR Review

• Provide a clear, accurate answer to the question that was asked in the very first sentence.

• Provide text evidence. What actual words from the text made you think of that particular answer?

• Explain how that evidence supports your answer. Purpose verbs can help. Also, you can use synonyms of your answer to help explain, but DO NOT SUMMARIZE the story.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following provides the best summary of the excerpt from How to Disappear?

• The narrator is anxious about making new friends. Jenna encourages her to make new friends and is just a dependable person. The narrator ends up agreeing with Jenna that a new friend would be nice and decides to say hi to somebody the next day.

• The narrator’s heart pounds anxiously while at school because all she wants to do is disappear. She only wants to be friends with Jenna, but Jenna has recently moved and is not even in the same school anymore. They have to FaceTime to talk. The narrator gets her wish about not beeing seen because she freezes up and ends up not saying hi to Hallie.

• The narrator remembers her FaceTime conversation with Jenna the night before. Jenna tells her to just say hi to someone at school because she has not spoken to anybody in two months. Finally, the narrator promises to say hi to someone. She chose Hallie Bryce. The narrator freezes up, ends up not speaking at all, and disappoints herself.

• Jenna and the narrator talk every day on FaceTime, and the narrator ignores all the other kids in school because she feels she can make do with only Jenna as her friend. The narrator is shy and has a little anxiety about even talking to anybody else. However, she does end up at least saying hi to anybody.

Multiple Choice

For what reason does the narrator decide to say hi to Hallie Bryce?

• Hallie was friends with Jenna in the past.

• Not only is Hallie convenient, but the narrator admires her.

• Hallie is always nice to her.

• The narrator wants to dance, and Hallie is a ballerina.

Multiple Select

What evidence supports the answer to the previous question? *Pick two answers on this one.

• Her locker is right next to mine...I won’t have to go out of my way or approach anyone.

• I clear my throat to make sure it’s still working...

• I don’t “follow” follow her [on Instagram]...I’m more of a lurk-in-the-shadows kind of girl. Not in any creepy way--in sort of an ...“I wish I could be like this” sort of way.

• “Did you say something?” She knows I haven’t said anything. She’s just being nice.

• Hallie glances up at me then. One of her beautifully curved eyebrows arches high on her forehead.

Multiple Choice

In “How to Disappear,” the author writes the following:

Her [Jenna’s] face filled the screen again. “I know exactly how you are. That’s why you need to do this. Or you’ll spend the rest of high school alone and miserable. Hiding in the bathroom, probably.”

What does this quote BEST reveal about Jenna?

• This quote displays Jenna’s talkative nature, a nature that ends up wearing the narrator down.

• This quote conveys how insistent Jenna is about trying to help the narrator make friends and be happy.

• This quote highlights the sneaky lengths that Jenna will go to help the narrator make new friends.

• This quote illustrates how thoughtless Jenna was because she did not take the narrator’s feelings into consideration.

Multiple Choice

Read the following quote:

When it comes to communicating with anyone else, she has always spoken for both of us. Even if someone directs their question to me. I hesitate, and she jumpts in to answer. It’s just the way we are.

Which definition best matches the use of the word “directs” as it is used in the quote above?

• (adj) extending or moving from one place to another by the shortest way without changing direction or stopping. Ex: There was no direct flight that day.

• (adv) with no one or nothing in between. Ex: Buy direct and save.

• (v) control the operations of; manage or govern. Ex: An economic elite directed the nation’s affairs.

• (v) aim (something) in a particular direction or at a particular person. Ex: Heating ducts direct warm air to rear-seat passengers.