The Rights to the Streets of Memphis

"But this new hunger baffled me, scared me, made me angry and insistent." What word could the author use to replace baffled

• scared

• angered

• bewildered

• interested

The text is autobiographical, which means the author is writing about his own life because auto means self, bio means life, and graph means to write or draw. With this in mind, which word means someone has written their name for you.

• biography
• automatic
• autograph
• autocorrect

"They had never seen such a frenzy. " What does the word frenzy mean? 

• confusion
• wild, uncontrolled
• to say insulting
• a buffet

"When she returned at evening she would be tired and dispirited and would cry a lot." What does the word dispirited mean?

• happy, jolly
• somewhat sad
• a feeling of hope
• feeling unhappy with no hope or enthusiasm

"...The most these long talks did to us was to make us feel a vague dread." What does the word vague mean?

• clear
• vivid
• not clear
• happy

A summary gives the most important details about a story. You need the right mix of details without going overboard. What is the best summary of the story, "The Rights to the Streets of Memphis?"

• A young boy is beaten by a gang when he goes to buy groceries for his family
• Abandoned by his father, a young boy experiences severe hunger because his mother has no money for food. Once she gets a job and is able to buy groceries, she sends her son to the store. Along the way, he is beaten by a gang of boys. His mother gives him a stick and tells him he must defend himself, which he does. 
• A young boy and his family live in an apartment in a city. One day, the boy's father left and did not return. The boy and mother waited and waited for the father to return and to bring food but he never did. The boy was very hungry. He cried because he was so hungry.........
• A very hungry boy goes to the store to buy groceries  and is beaten up. He ends up fighting the boys and earning his rights to the streets of Memphis.

The narrator, Richard, was so hungry that he "would grow dizzy and my vision would dim. I became less active in my play, and for the first time in my life I had to pause and think of what was happening to me." This is an example of what kind of structure?

• problem and solution
• compare and contrast
• cause and effect
• sequence of events

"....I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at me gauntly." What is the meaning of the word gauntly (gaunt)?

• confusing
• joyfully
• creepy
• very thin; ill

The narrator retaliated against the bullies. What does retaliate mean?

• to whip

• to stand up for yourself

• to steal

• to fight back

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What does dispirited mean?

• complete

• to fight back

• to lose enthusiasm or hope

• noisy

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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