The Gift-Giver novel assessment

Why were the children worried on the day of the big basketball game?

• The 6th graders were extra tall that year
• Yellow Bird wanted to be the coach for the game
• Sherman was absent and he was the team captain
• Russell had broken his glasses, and he couldn't make a shot

Why did Sherman run away?

• His grandmother was mean and he hated her
• He and his siblings were put in different foster homes
• He was being chased by gang members
• All the children were angry with him for missing the big game

How did Doris convince Sherman to return to the foster home?

• She took him a note from his foster mom that said, "Come home"
• She threatened to tell the two neighborhood policemen where he was
• She told him that his brothers and sisters would not know where to find him
• She promised to visit him every week in his foster home

What did Amir give to Doris after she saw the dead boy on the playground?

• his favorite book of poems
• a picture he drew of a girl crying
• a necklace given to him by his little sister
• his phone number so she could call him

Yellow Bird decided to catch up in school so he could ..........

• avoid going to summer school
• win the social studies award
• be promoted to sixth grade
• go to science camp that summer

Who gave Amir his nickname, the gift-giver?

• Sherman, when he came back to visit
• an old man from his foster family
• an aunt from his mother's side of the family
• Doris, after he gave her the drawing

Amir wrote to Doris, "When you want something bad, you have to .........."

• forget about it
• tell someone about it
• reach out and grab it
• keep your mind on it

When she was put under punishment, Doris begged her father to let her ..........

• have a sleepover with Mickey and Dotty
• study at the library after school
• sit on the stoop with Amir each day
• go to the big basketball game at school

How was Doris able to help her family when her dad lost his job?

• She got a job at the ice cream parlor
• She gave them money that she had been saving her whole life
• She asked Sherman's grandmother to watch her and Gerald
• She watched Gerald all day so her mother could work

Amir thought Doris and her mom weren't arguing anymore because ..........

• they wanted to keep the baby happy
• they understood things about each other better
• Doris's dad was tired of hearing them fight
• Doris was worried the family would be split up