Strawberry Girl Test

Why was Mrs. Slater mad at Mrs. Boyer after she first met her?

• She was jealous of Mrs. Boyer's pretty things.

• Mrs. Boyer wouldn't loan her a cup of sugar.

• Mrs. Boyer looked down on the Slaters for being poor.

• She thought Mrs. Boyer was a gossip.

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

Why wasn't there any school for the children?

• The people hadn't built a school yet

• The people were too poor to hire a teacher

• The Slater boys beat up the teacher.

• There weren't enough children to go to school.

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CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

Why did the Slaters' hogs keep getting in the strawberry fields?

• The hogs ran wild because the Slaters didn't feed them.

• Mr. Slater wanted to make trouble for the Boyers

• Shoestring wanted to show Birdie she couldn't grow strawberries.

• The strawberry field was near the common watering hole.

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

What happened to the money Mr. Slater got from selling his cow?

• It was used to pay his debts.

• He bought himself a fancy new gun.

• It was stolen.

• He gambled most of it and then got drunk.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

People born in Florida were called Crackers because

• their main food was cracked corn

• the sun made them look leathery and cracked

• of the cowmen who cracked their whips herding cattle

• of the way they talked

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

What happened to all the strawberries

• Grasshoppers stripped every plant

• The Slaters came at night and trampled them

• It got cold and they froze and were ruined.

• A flock of robins ate them.

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CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

Mr. Boyer whipped Shoestring because he

• threw rotten eggs at the Boyers' house.

• threw a snake at Birdie.

• was cutting Mr. Boyer's fence.

• wouldn't take care of his father's cow.

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CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

Why did Birdie tell Shoestring he'd never learn to read and write

• He was too lazy.

• She decided he was too dumb

• The school burned in a fire started by the Slaters.

• She wanted to hurt his feelings after what he'd done.

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CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

Why did Shoestring come to the Boyers in the middle of the night?

• He wanted to warn Mr. Boyer that his pas was looking for him.

• His ma and sisters were sick.

• His pa was drunk and he wanted to get away from him.

• he was planning on causing trouble.

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CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

What was the surprise for Birdie after the first day of school?

• an organ

• a radio

• a pony

• a new mule

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

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CCSS.RL.3.1