My Favorite Chaperone

What does paragraph 1 reveal about Maya and her conflict?

• She wants to go to the all-school dance, but she isn’t sure she should attend because she can’t dance.

• She wants to go to the all-school dance, but she thinks her parents are unlikely to give her permission.

• She didn’t take a permission slip for the all-school dance, so now she has to figure out how to get one.

• She took a permission slip for the all-school dance, but she will have to confront the popular girl to go.

What do Maya’s thoughts, feelings, and actions, in response to her mother’s injury reveal about her traits and motivations?

• She is caring, obedient and wants to help her family.

• She cares about her brother and wants him to help her out.

• She can’t cook and clean slowly, but wants to improve.

• She is self-centered and wants to win in gymnastics.

The conflict in the story is resolved when-

• Nurzhan promises to stop fighting Ozzie in school.

• Maya agrees to quit gymnastics if she can go to the dance.

• Nurzhan offers to be Maya’s chaperone at the dance.

• Maya’s father agrees to be her chaperone at the dance.

Read the sentences from paragraph 140 of the selection.

I lay my head back against the seat and closed my eyes, squeezing them shut, and took myself far away until I was safe on the bars at beautiful gymnastics meet in the sky.

What does this sentence suggest?

• Maya is dreaming of gymnastics.

• Maya is sad that she missed her gymnastics meet.

• Maya is trying to escape from the reality of her dad’s anger.

• Maya is trying to remember her teammates’ love for her.

What is Maya’s motivation for misinterpreting Nurzhan’s principal’s words?

• She dislikes the principal.

• She wants to leave the office quickly.

• She is afraid of what her father will do to her brother.

• She thinks the principal is making too big a deal about the fight.

Why does Maya’s brother most likely help her get permission to go to the Spring Fling?

• He wants to go have fun himself.

• He thinks Mays needs to have fun.

• He wants to help her since she helped him get out of trouble.

• He feels sorry for her because she has to do so much extra work.

Which response expresses the theme that is reinforced throughout the story?

• Lying is okay in certain situations.

• Strict parenting results in children who get in trouble.

• People from other countries find they dislike America once they live there for a while.

• Children of immigrants understand American culture better than their parents do.

Which sentence expresses the turning point of Maya and Nurzhan’s relationship after the dance?

• They are mad at each other.

• They do not like their parents.

• They had so much fun at the dance.

• They realize they really love each other.