Red Kayak Test Review

Character Matching-Match the character with the correct description.

Brady

• Young boy who dies after being found in the river

• Protagonist who is respectful and thoughtful

• Loves computers and is remorseful

J.T.

• Antagonist who hates Mr. DiAngelo

• Loves computers and is remorseful

• Cousin who drives an ambulance

Digger

• Young boy who dies after being found in the river

• Antagonist who hates Mr. DiAngelo

• Cousin who drives an ambulance

Carl

• Loves computers and is remorseful

• Cousin who drives an ambulance

Ben

• Protagonist who is respectful and thoughtful

• Cousin who drives an ambulance

• Young boy who dies after being found in the river

"It's a pretty river, the Corsica. But it doesn't have a heart." Which literary term is used in this text?

• simile

• personification

• flashback

"Jumbo shrimp?" I asked. "Yeah, and military intelligence," J.T. reminded me. Which literary term is used in this text?

• simile

• oxymoron

• Antonym

"The wind was a sheet of ice." Which literary term is used in this text?

• simile

• oxymoron

• personification

• metaphor

• flashback

"in some ways, it started over a year ago." Which literary term was used in this text?

• simile

• oxymoron

• personification

• metaphor

• flashback

"Oyster shells crunched under the weight of the ambulance, and white dust trailed behind it like smoke." What is the purpose of this sentence?

• to provide a meaningful flashback

• to show imagery as the boys waited for a ride to school

• to persuade Brady to make a decision

• to entertain the reader