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

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

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

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

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

What or who does Amira say never sleeps?

• Old Anwar

• The Flicker Box

• Muma

• The Water Giver

Each plastic jug of water is used for

• drinking

• bathing

• cooking

• all of these

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

• true

• false

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

• alliteration

• repetition

• simile

• imagery

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