Lawnboy Chapter 6

Multiple Choice

Cause and Effect:

Cause: Pasqual told the narrator not to turn down work, so he kept adding jobs. Pasqual's family members agreed to work.

What is the effect?

• The author stated "And it was only the last week in June."

• At Arnold's house "there were four pickups and twelve people waiting for me..."

• Lawnboy thought "And so I went on mowing lawns."

• "Once or twice Grandma came over for dinner."

Multiple Choice

Parts of Speech: "Where I met Louis, a thin man with a small pickup."

Which part of speech is thin as used above?

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Multiple Choice

Vocabulary - Context Clues: Define the vocabulary word using context clues. "'...the neighbors are starting to wonder why so many people congregate here.'"

• to sing together

• to come together in a group, or gather people or animals into a group

• to drive a large number of lawnmowers

• to meet at someone's house so you will all be prepared to complete the job you have for that day

Multiple Choice

Analyze: What do you think the narrator means when he says, "I began to see that what was happening was bigger than just a few people running around mowing lawns"?

• The narrator realizes his lawn mowing business is much more than a neighborhood kid cutting lawns. A real business is ending.

• The narrator realizes his lawn mowing business is much less than a neighborhood kid cutting lawns. A real business is forming

• The narrator realizes his lawn mowing business is much more than a neighborhood kid cutting lawns. A real business is forming

• Lawnboy is going bankrupt. His business is over because he can't keep up with the large number of lawns that need to be mowed.

Multiple Choice

Literal: Where did Lawn Boy go every morning?

• To Arnold's house

• To the gas station

• To visit his grandmother

• To play baseball with his friends

Multiple Choice

How was he able to remember all of the lawns that he was cutting?

• Pasqual's cousin Louie kept up with the jobs in his notebook.

• Pasqual kept track of the different jobs.

• He kept a notebook with the information

• He told Arnold and Arnold kept up with them.

Multiple Choice

Literal: Who was in charge of paying all of the workers?

• Lawnboy

• Arnold

• Louie

• Pasqual

Multiple Choice

Literal : How many seconds have passed as chapter 6 begins?

• 14

• 336

• 20,160

• 12,096,000