The Relatives Came

What time of year did the relatives come for a visit?

• spring

• summer

• fall

• winter

Which phrase in the following sentence suggests that the places the relatives are seeing are not like Virginia?

They drove all day long and into the night, and while they traveled the looked at strange houses and different mountains and they thought about their almost purple grapes back home.

• all day long

• almost purple grades back home

• strange houses and different mountains

• while they traveled

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

How can the reader tell that the family is happy to see one another?

• The relatives had to travel a long way.

• The relatives thought about their grapes back home.

• The family enjoyed soda pop and crackers.

• The relatives hugged each other for hours.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

How can the reader tell that there are a lot of relatives visiting?

• There were people sleeping on the floors.

• There was not enough room for them all in the house.

• The relatives all slept in one room.

• The relatives didn't get along.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

How did the relatives help while they were visiting?

• They stayed for weeks and weeks.

• They cooked all the meals.

• The relatives had a car that smelled like a real car.

• They fixed any broken things they coud find.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.3

What do the following sentences suggest about the time the relatives spent together?

But none of us thought about Virginia much. We were so busy hugging and eating and breathing together.

• The family could not wait for the relatives to go home.

• Everyone was enjoying their time together.

• Some of the relatives were not getting along with each other.

• The relatives were very homesick for Virginia.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

Which sentence from the selection shows the reader that the relatives didn't mind working while they were there for a visit?

• Then it was into the house and so much laughing and shining faces in the doorways.

• It was different, going to sleep with all that new breathing in the house.

• They helped us tend the garden and fixed any broken things they could find.

• They ate up all the strawberries and melons, then promised we could eat up their grapes and peaches when we came to Virginia.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Why did the beds feel too big and too quiet after the relatives left?

• The family was used to all the other people being there.

• The family was going to miss their relatives from Virginia.

• The house had been full of people for a long time.

• All of the above.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

What were the relatives thinking about while they drove back to Virginia?

• their dark purple grapes

• the long trip

• their car that smelled like a real car

• how dark it was at night

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

What did the relatives dream about when they crawled into their silent, soft beds in Virginia?

• how great the bed felt

• the next summer

• their purple grapes

• strange houses and different mountains

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2