Sounder Ch 4 to 6

Why didn’t the mother bring the cake to the father?

• Seeing him makes her sad.

• He told her not to visit him.

• Women are not allowed in the prison.

• The boy told her how much he wanted to go.

Which word BEST describes the prison guard?

• cruel

• sad

• indifferent

• strange

What did the boy forget to ask his father?

• How long he has been married to his mother.

• Whether or not he can go to school.

• How Sounder first came to him.

• Whether or not he can get a new dog.

How will the mother know when the father is coming home?

• He will send word with the preacher.

• She will read about it in the paper.

• The boy will ask him the next time he visits.

• She will go to town and ask the mayor.

What does the boy dream about that night?

• Someone offering to teach him how to read.

• Sounder breaking into jail and freeing father.

• Someone offering to buy them a new house.

• Sounder getting even with the deputies.

Where does Sounder always look?

• under the porch

• in the trees

• under the kitchen table near the sink

• in the direction where the father was last seen

What does Sounder no longer do?

• bark

• whine

• eat

• drink

Read this except from chapter 6:

"Now the cabin was even quieter than it had been before loneliness put a stamp on everything."

What does this sentence mean?

• The boy has to buy stamps so he can write letters and feel less lonely.

• The cabin was very quiet because the boy no longer stamps his feet in anger.

• The boy no longer feels lonely because the cabin has brought him needed silence.

• The cabin is quiet and lonely now because the family feels the loss of the father.

Which figurative language device is being used with the words, "before loneliness put a stamp on everything"?

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration

In chapter 6 we learn that the mother has long periods of just humming without drifting into soft singing.

What is this a sign of?

• In chapter 6 we learn that the mother has long periods of just humming without drifting into soft singing.

  
  

  What is this a sign of?

• She is worried.

• The boy is forgetting the words to her songs.

• She is angry.