"Climbing Skull Mountain" Scope Magazine

1. Which sentence from the story indicates a flashback is getting ready to happen?

• I gave him a look. It was a terrible idea, even for him.

• At least until that summer day before eighth grade.

• I'd never heard any clang, clang, clang, and the mountain was only a mile from our house.

• Still, I didn’t want to go—mostly because Mom said it was off-limits.

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Which of the following is part of the flashback about the day in the summer of 8th grade?

• After Mom left for work, Jordan turned to me. “We’re going up Skull Mountain,” he announced.

• Still, I didn’t want to go—mostly because Mom said it was off-limits.

• “What’s this?” Jordan pointed at something white on the ground

  something with empty eye sockets and a jaw full of mean teeth.

• all of these

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Which of the following best illustrates foreshadowing (a clue that something is going to happen)?

• I gave him a look. It was a terrible idea, even for him.

• The day began with Mom confiscating our phones and ordering us to go outside.

• Back then, I didn’t talk much

• Jordan climbed the fence easily.

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Now when the wind blows, people say you can hear a clang, clang, clang coming from Skull Mountain, as if those men are still up there with their pickaxes, doomed to bang away at the rocks forever, as punishment for trying to take what did not belong to them.

The author includes this legend in her story to help foreshadow which of the following?

• why mom made the boys outside

• why the boys decided not to go to the mountain

• something bad might happen to the boys on the mountain.

• why the narrator lets his brother, Jordan, do all the talking

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Which of the following is the best foreshadowing of trouble ahead on the mountain for the boys?

• A faded sign read “NO TRESPASSING.”

• “See?” he said, when I pulled myself over the fence at last. “No ghosts.”

• Jordan was already six feet tall, and I had to jog to keep up with him.

• After an hour, we stopped by a boulder to drink some water and

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When the narrator screams and tells his brother, Jordan, to put down the coyote skull, it foreshadows that something bad could follow because Jordan picked up the skull.

• True

• False

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The moment his fingers touched the skull, the sky went muddy. It was as if someone had turned down the sun.

The author included these details to foreshadow which of the following?

• The wind howled and blew the dirt around them

• Thunder made a loud boom across the sky

• The skull in Jordan's hand had caused all of the bad weather

• all of these answers

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The story ends with the flashback and doesn't come back to present time.

• true

• false

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The narrator probably tells this flashback to show that his older brother, Jordan, wasn't always right about everything.

• true

• false

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