A Package for Mrs. Jewls

What is the first important event in the passage?

• Louis passes out balls during recess.

• A truck horn honks and disturbs the students

• Louis starts cleaning up junk on the playground.

• Students toss pieces of paper and pencils into the school yard.

This passage is told from the point of view of

• Lewis

• Mrs. Jewls

• A first-person narrator

• A third-person narrator

Louis goes to Mrs. Jewls’s classroom by

• riding the elevator.

• climbing up the stairs.

• going down a long hallway.

• walking across the schoolyard.

What causes Louis the most trouble in making sure that Mrs. Jewls gets her package?

• Mrs. Mush is cooking mushrooms in the cafeteria.

• The students cannot be interrupted while they are working.

• Mrs. Jewls’s classroom is on the top floor of Wayside School.

• The delivery person must give the package directly to Mrs. Jewls.

What is the effect of this passage’s point of view?

• There is no main character.

• The author is limited to describing one person.

• The reader does not know the thoughts and feelings of any character.

• The reader gets to know the thoughts and feelings of more than one character.

Which of the following is a clue that helps the reader determine the passage’s point of view?

• the use of quotation marks

• the use of indented paragraphs

• the use of pronouns such as I and we

• the use of pronouns such as she and he

How does Mrs. Jewls solve the problem of letting Louis into the classroom?

• She holds a spelling bee.

• She opens the door for Louis herself.

• She chooses her best student to open the door.

• She flips a coin to decide who will open the door.

The end of the passage is ironic because

• Louis has worked so hard to deliver the computer to Mrs. Jewls.

• Mrs. Jewls uses the computer in a way that the reader would expect.

• The third person narrator describes the humor of Mrs. Jewls’s spelling bee.

• The reader does not expect Mrs. Jewls to use the computer the way she does.

  
  

How does the use of irony affect the passage?

• It makes the reader sad.

• It adds humor and surprise.

• It makes the passage predictable.

• It makes the reader feel worry for the students.

At the end of the passage, Mrs. Jewls thanks Louis for

• taking good care of her package.

• picking up the paper and pencils.

• putting the package where she wants it.

• helping her teach the students about gravity.