Secrets in the Shadows

 In the following excerpt, what does the word incredible mean?
This can’t be real, Roylin thought. He must be asleep in his run-down apartment having an incredible dream about a fantasy girl who actually treated him like a winner instead of the loser he really was.

• A. horrible
• B. forgotten
• C. unbelievable
• D. ordinary

In the following excerpt, what does the word delirious mean?
Korie agreeably wrapped her arms around Roylin’s neck and kissed him back. They stumbled apart then, laughing and nearly delirious from excitement.

• A. dizzy
• B. angry
• C. terrified
• D. worried

The following words were said by
“Everybody is so nice here. I love Bluford already, and this is only my first day!”

• A. Darcy Wills
• B. Amberlynn Bailey
• C Korrie Archer.
• D. Tarah Carson

The following words were said by
“You can call me all the names you want, but you don’t scare me no more. You’re just a wannabe, and that’s why you have to bribe some girl into dating you, ’cause she never would want you otherwise!”

• A. Amberlynn Bailey
• B. Korrie Archer
• C. Hakeem Randall
• D. Tarah Carson

What is the central point of the following selection?
Roylin turned sharply and glared at his sister. “Don’t you ever say I’m like him! You hear me? I’m nothin’ like him, nothin’!” Roylin’s father used to beat him regularly, using a heavy leather strap to turn Roylin’s back into a mass of tender bruises. The slightest offense was enough to enrage the muscular man. . . . That was why Roylin’s mother finally divorced him. Even being alone with five children was not as frightening to her as living with a man whose wrath was dangerous and unpredictable. Nobody ever knew whose turn it would be to be beaten.

• A. Roylin and his sister Amberlynn do not get along.
• B. b. Roylin does not want to be like his father, who was an abusive, dangerous man.
• C. c. Mrs. Bailey divorced Mr. Bailey because he was abusive.

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The sentence that best expresses the main idea of the following excerpt is that
Roylin paid no attention to Ms. Eckerly’s lecture on Civil War battles. He kept staring at Korie, at the way she tilted her head when she was puzzled, at how her smooth hand rubbed her neck when she grew tired of looking at the chalkboard. Roylin had dated other girls, and some of them were pretty, but no girl he had ever seen measured up to Korie. She was somebody he expected to see on the cover of a magazine, not sitting in his classroom. She had one of those incredible faces and bodies that do not seem to belong in the real world, especially the world Roylin Bailey lived in.

• A. Roylin thinks Korie Archer is too good to be true.
• B. Roylin has a hard time paying attention in class.
• C. Korie Archer should be a model on the cover of a magazine.