Warm Up #8 - RL.8.4

Warm Up #8 - RL.8.4

By Monica Meadows

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from the passage.

“His mother, wearing a crazed smile, stood before him, banging her saucepans together with the destructive force of cannonballs hitting a battleship’s iron hull.”

In this description, the author shows that the mother…

• has destroyed the saucepans by banging them together.

• is banging the saucepans together extremely hard.

• is doing her best not to scare Demetrius unnecessarily.

• has gone crazy and will likely hurt somebody.

Multiple Choice

What does the phrase “his heart pounding, racing to keep up with itself like an over-worked water pump” mean in paragraph 3?

• Demetrius is aware of his heart beating before he is aware of the noise.

•   Demetrius only wakes up when he realizes his heart was racing.

•  Demetrius’s heart is beating quickly and feels out of control.

• Demetrius’s heart is damaged when he is scared by the clanging pans.

Multiple Choice

By describing Demetrius as a barnacle clinging to a battleship, the author shows that ...

• Demetrius’s mother would like him to find a new place to sleep.

• Demetrius is not moving away from the bed and being lazy.

• Demetrius’s mother lets him sleep as late as he wants to.

• Demetrius has decorated his room in an ocean-theme.