
The Gun Ch. 7 & 8
Authored by Effie Fields
English
4th - 8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In the following excerpt, what does the word agonizing mean?
The minutes dragged by with an agonizing slowness.
pleasurable
relaxing
painful
relieving
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In the following excerpt, what does the word putrid mean?
The air was heavy with the stench of rotting food and spilled beer. Tyray covered his nose at the putrid
odor.
refreshing
slight
delicious
rotten
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The following words were said by:
“Got a big job today. Got a coupla new guys startin’ today, too. I’m gonna need to work ’em extra hard ’cause we’re under a deadline. . . . Contract says if we take too long, money gets deducted from our profits. I ain’t about to let that happen.”
Mr. Mitchell.
Darrell Mercer.
Dad.
Tyray Hobbs.
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The following words were said by:
“Everyone kept telling me not to trust you, but I didn’t listen. I kept hoping that they were wrong, that you were different from what they said. Well, I guess I was the one who was wrong.”
Darrell Mercer.
Amberlynn Bailey.
Tyray Hobbs.
Lark Collins.
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CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The main idea of the excerpt below is that:
Then [Tyray] saw a black and white police car in the distance. It was coming directly towards him. For an instant, Tyray did not know what to do. If the police found him, they would surely take him home, and then his father would get him. Yet if he ran, the police would chase him, suspectingthat he was running from a crime that he had just committed. Even if he tried to smooth-talk them, he would get in trouble for being out so late and breaking the city curfew for kids.
Tyray saw a black and white police car.
if Tyray tried to run, he knew the police would chase him.
Tyray didn’t know what to do when he saw the police.
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RL.4.2
CCSS.RI.7.2
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The main idea of the excerpt below is that Tyray :
As he slowly neared his home, Tyray considered his options. He could not call the police, but he could return to Jupiter’s street in the daylight and find the boy who had set him up. But he knew the kid would just deny what happened. . . . Tyray gave up that idea fast. . . . He knew he should see a doctor, but that was impossible. How could he explain to his father what he had been doing out on the street at that hour?
thought about his options.
could find the kid who betrayed him, but the kid would deny it.
knew he should see a doctor.
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RL.5.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RL.4.2
CCSS.RL.6.2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The main idea of the excerpt below is that
Staring into the blackness of his bedroom, Tyray wished he could just go to sleep and never wake up. It was not that he wanted to die. He just wanted to stop what was happening. Yet he could see no end to it.
Tyray did not want to die.
Tyray’s bedroom is very dark
Tyray wished he could escape from his situation.
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RI.8.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
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