A Day's Wait

Throughout the story, what is the boy in “A Day’s Wait” waiting for?

• He is waiting for the doctor to come.
• He is waiting for his father to come home.
• He is waiting for his headache to go away.
• He is waiting to die from a high fever.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is the basis of Schatz’s false assumption?

• A misunderstanding of what the doctor said.
• Misinterpreting something his father says.
• The difference between Centigrade and Fahrenheit.
• The difference between miles and kilometers.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

What does the father in the story know that the boy does not?

• The boy is going to die.
• The boy has the flu, and he will get better.
• Howard Pyle wrote The Book of the Pirates.
• The boy has pneumonia.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

What happens when the boy realizes that he is not going to die?

• He relaxes his hold over himself.
• He starts to cry.
• He starts to cry.
• He dances around.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

"A Day's Wait" is mostly about

• courage in the face of death.
• the fear people have about becoming ill.
• misunderstandings between parent and child.
• the feelings of a parent whose child is seriously ill.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What can you infer about the boy even before the arrival of the doctor?

• He is usually strong and healthy.
• He frequently demands a lot of attention.
• He tends to be stubborn and disobedient.
• He does not generally complain or whine much.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What change comes about as a result of the doctor's visit?

• The father becomes more worried.
• The boy becomes very tense.
• The boy's fever finally begins to go down.
• The boy is able to fall asleep.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

The story's major conflict is

• the boy's external struggle against illness.
• the boy's external conflict with his father.
• the boy's internal struggle against fear of death.
• the father's internal conflict over how to treat his son.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which moment represents the climax in the plot?

• The father comes home from his hunt.
• The boy asks what his temperature is.
• The father explains the different types of thermometers.
• The boy asks when he is going to die.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Why does the boy prefer to stay awake even though he feels so sick?

• He does not want his father to leave his bedside.
• He does not want to waste the last day of his life by sleeping.
• He feels that it is more manly to endure pain than to hide from it by sleeping.
• He is too terrified to fall asleep.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2