A Very Good Lie

Who is telling the story?

• Nikki
• Grams
• the author
• One of the ladies in the car

The setting of the story is mostly ...

• a school playground.
• the home of Ronny.
• the home of Nikki.
• Gram's fishing lake.

Nikki might be jealous of Kendra because ...

• Kendra is messy.
• everyone thinks Kendra is perfect.
• Kendra dropped the necklace in the toilet.
• Kendra is the baby sister.

How did the necklace end up in the toilet?

• It fell off the counter.
• Grandma dropped it in there on accident.
• It slipped out of Nikki's hands when she was trying it on.
• The cat knocked it in.

To win the bet, Nikki had to ...

• tell the truth for three days.

• take the blame for breaking the clock.

• give Kendra five dollars.

• do a new book project after school.

Nikki told the truth about ...

• eating the brownies.
• wanting to go dancing with Ronny.
• losing the principal's note.
• breaking the clock.

Nikki had an internal conflict (a struggle between two choices) about ...

• whether she should go dancing with Ronny or eat wet noodles.
• whether she should always tell the truth or lie sometimes.
• whether she should get a haircut or clean Gram's room.
• whether she should hide the broken clock or flush the necklace down the toilet.

When Grams came home ...

• Kendra told Grams that Nikki took the necklace.
• Nikki told Grams that she broke the necklace.
• Grams told Mom that she broke the clock.
• Grams flushed the clock down the toilet.

Nikki found out that telling the truth ...

• is easy to do.
• might hurt someone's feelings.
• makes Grams mad.
• will stop the toilet from flushing.

The type of book
(or genre) of
"A Very Good Lie" is ...

• fantasy (because the story could never happen in real life).
• biography (because the story tells about the life of a real person).
• nonfiction (because the story gives facts about real people and places).
• realistic fiction (because the made-up story could happen in real life).