The Wave by Margaret Hodges

The Wave

by Margaret Hodges

Illustrated by Blair Lent

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Which is the title?

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Which is the name of the author?

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What does the author do?

• writes the story

• draws the pictures

• takes the pictures with a camera

• reads the book

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Which is the name of the illustrator?

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What does the illustrator do?

• writes the story

• draws the pictures

• takes the pictures with a camera

• reads the book

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What is the setting?

• long ago in a Japanese village by the sea

• gentle waves

• Sometimes the sea was very angry and waves came tearing up the beach.

• a village made of straw huts

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Choose the portion of text that tells the setting of the story.

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Based on the text, what does the word toiled mean?

• to climb a mountain

• zig-zag

• to work hard at or for something

• to be a farmer

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Which phrase from the text gives clues to the meaning of the word toiled?

• there rose a mountain

• climbed up, up through the rice fields

• were all the wealth of the people

• they worked hard

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What detail does the illustration contribute (or add to) the story?

• It shows the rice fields.

• It shows an enormous fight of golden steps.

• It shows that what a balcony is.

• It shows that the precious grain was ripe and ready.

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Choose the picture that helps us understand what festooned means as used in the following sentence:

They could see strings of paper lanterns festooned between two bamboo poles.

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What does the Ojiisan mean when he says:

"This is earthquake weather."

• He saw that there had been an earthquake on the news.

• The weather could signal that there would be an earthquake.

• He hoped there would not be an earthquake.

• Earthquakes only happen when it's rainy and cold.

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Put the events in order.

• An earthquake came.

• The house rocked several times.

• All was still again.

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Choose the nonliteral language.

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What does the author mean when he says:

The sea was running away from the land!

• The sea grew legs and ran away from the land.

• The sea was moving quickly away from the shore.

• The sea was coming closer to the shore.

• The sea wasn't moving at all.

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How did Ojiisan know he should warn the villagers?

• In his lifetime, it had never happened before.

• He remembered things told him in his childhood by his father's father.

• There was no time to send a message down the long mountain road.

• There was no time to tell the temple priests to ring the bell.

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Why do you think Ojiisan is setting his fields on fire?

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What does the word peril most likely mean as used in the story?

• happiness

• fire

• danger

• living by the sea

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Which word or phrase shows how Tada feels in this section?

• But Ojiisan did not answer.

• He had no time to explain.

• He was thinking only of the four hundred lives in peril by the edge of the sea.

• The, he burst into tears, and ran back into the house.

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What details does this illustration add to the story?

• It shows that there is a tidal wave coming toward the village.

• It shows that the villagers are rushing up the mountain to help Ojiisan put out the fire.

• It shows the houses and huts that make up the village.

• It shows how important it is to be save when swimming after an earthquake.

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What does it mean when Tada and the villagers say that Ojiisan is mad?

• They mean his is angry

• They mean he is irate.

• They mean he is sad and mad.

• They mean that he is acting wildly and isn't thinking clearly.

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Why is everyone angry at Ojiisan?

(Choose two reasons.)

• They didn't understand why Ojiisan would set his own fields on fire.

• They were afraid Ojiisan would destroy their fields as well.

• They were upset that Ojiisan sent Tada to get the torch so he could light the fire.

• They were angry that Ojiisan had distracted them from saving their homes.

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What does the author mean when he says,

"The great wave struck the shore with a weight that sent a shudder through the hills."

• The wave gently hit the shore.

• The wave hit the shore so hard it made the ground shake.

• The wave was very small and didn't make much of a difference.

• The wave would be nice to surf.

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Tell what the illustration shows.

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What does the word scattered mean as it is used in the sentence?

• walked calmly up the mountain

• hid from the wave

• helped put out the fire

• ran every which way

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The wave hit the village

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Which character traits could describe Ojiisan at this point in the story?

• wise

• wealthy

• poor

• selfish

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Why did the people build a temple?

• To satisfy the god of the sea so he wouldn't sen another tidal wave

• to honor Ojiisan

• to help Ojiisan become rich again

• to teach a lesson not to run away from a tidal wave