The Red Pencil pgs 142 - 170

Muma thinks the only way Amira will get better is

• with time

• with help from a speech therapist

• psychological help with her trauma

• all of these

• none of these

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Amira's family is allowed how much water?

• Two gallons per family

• One gallon per person per day

• Two gallons per person per day

• One gallon for each adult and one quart for each child

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What is a flicker box?

• a radio that has lots of static

• a tv that is flickering

• a movie projector that flickers

• none of these

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

What do the women of Kalma talk about?

• mosquitoes, firewood, onions

• the fact they will not go back home

• that the guards who patrol can be dangerous

• the camp keeps filling up with everywhere bodies

• all of these

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

When Amira says, "You can pick them, collect them, carry them home," to what is she referring?

• plastic trash bags

• rice bags

• feathers from the crows overhead

• feathers from the vultures overhead

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What or who does Amira say never sleeps?

• Old Anwar

• The Flicker Box

• Muma

• The Water Giver

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Each plastic jug of water is used for

• drinking

• bathing

• cooking

• all of these

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CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Muma is very worried about Amira and begs her to just try and talk.

• true

• false

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The use of the phrase Everywhere bodies on pages 154-155 is an example of:

• alliteration

• repetition

• simile

• imagery

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

Amira's shelter is made of

• old pieces of decaying wood

• plastic from the left over water jugs

• rice bags scraps

• scraps of plastic flicker boxes

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5