White Umbrella

What happens at the piano lesson?

• the two girls need help with homework

• the girls need to clean their glasses

• the sisters need to wait in the rain

• the sisters spend time alone with their mother

• the girls have to apologize to Crosman

Which is true about the narrator's mother? She is:

• a concert pianist

• a careful driver

• late

• friends with Crosman

• an owner of the umbrella

What means the opposite of discreet?

• fair

• nice

• quiet

• obvious

• reliable

Why does Mona tell the narrator she can do the pledge with her eyes closed? She...

• values liberty

• is intelligent

• is patriotic about America

• is attentive

• knows more about America than the narrator

What adds to the mood of the story?

• rainy weather

• sound of the piano

• color of the umbrella

• mother's work history

• smell of pot roast cooking

Compared to Mona, the narrator is:

• loving

• comical

• stubborn

• forgiving

• agreeable

What does the narrator intensely desire?

• musical talent

• power and control

• caring music teacher

• stay-at-home mom

• mainstream white America

What does the white umbrella symbolize to the narrator?

• musical talent

• power and control

• a caring music teacher

• stay-at-home mother

• mainstream white America

The mom has an accident. Then, the narrator realizes...

• how much she loves her mother

• how embarrassing her mother was

• that she will never be a white American

• that a raincoat is as good as an umbrella

• that having a job has not changed her mother

Choose the word that means, "act of revealing something astonishing"

• scepter

• rendition

• stupendous

• boot camp

• revelation