Grade 4 -- Wordly Wise Lesson 5

The life of Hans Christian Anderson is a very interesting one. "A Life That Changed" offers only a brief _____ into the writer's life.

• contempt

• glimpse

• reject

• recalled

As a little boy, Andersen liked to write his own plays. Afterward, he would stage them in a little _____ theater his father made for him.

• sensitive

• persisted

• achieve

• mock

Andersen was eleven when his father died. The three-year period that followed, until he left for Copenhagen, was the unhappiest _____ of the young boy's life.

• phase

• entertained

• revise

• abrupt

Andersen, with his odd ways and habit of staring off into space, was not like his fellow workers. They must have thought of his behavior as very _____.

• persuade

• contempt

• quaint

• achieve

If Andersen had overheard the remarks of his fellow workers, he would have known they felt _____ for him.

• attempted

• glimpse

• recalled

• contempt

The cruel jokes played on Andersen by his fellow workers must have upset him greatly. He had always been a very _____ child, protected by his parents.

• mock

• phase

• sensitive

• persisted

Andersen must have been nervous about asking his mother if her could leave home. He must have been afraid that she would _____ the idea.

• phase

• reject

• quaint

• persisted

Andersen was so eager to leave home that he _____ until his mother agreed to let him go to Copenhagen.

• persisted

• recalled

• contempt

• sensitive

Andersen did not start out writing children's stories. He _____ many different kinds of writing first.

• abrupt

• attempted

• achieve

• reject

Andersen showed his plays to theater owners in Copenhagen. Sadly, he could not _____ them to put on his plays.

• persisted

• sensitive

• mock

• persuade