Stargirl Review 12-22

What was thrown at Stargirl while she cheered at a basketball game?

• tomato

• banana

• rotten potatoes

• rose petals

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CCSS.RL.6.1

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

They pumped their arms and shouted and did everything that cheerleaders are supposed to do, but their gestures were empty, their hearts were not in it.

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Cacti should be placed under adequate sunlight and sowed in pots having good drainage. Is is helpful to have gravel around the top of the pot. The soil used to plant a cactus needs to be a mixture of sand, peat, and perlite.

If an article included the information above, it would be most likely found under which of the following headlines?

• Growing Regions of Cacti

• Cactus Appearance

• How to Care for a Cactus

• Types of Cacti

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CCSS.RI.6.2

The novel is set in the state of

• South Carolina

• Florida

• Nevada

• Arizona

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CCSS.RL.6.1

Who gave Leo the porcupine tie at the start of the novel? (On his 14th birthday)

• Kevin

• Archie

• Stargirl

• Hillari

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

Which of the following characters dislikes Stargirl?

• Leo

• Kevin

• Archie

• Hillari

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

Which of the following words best describes Archie?

• lazy

• hostile

• wise

• stubborn

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CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

Like so many of Archie's words, they seemed not to enter through my ears but to settle there on my skin, there to burrow like tiny eggs awaiting the rain of my maturity, when they would hatch and I at last would understand.

What is being compared in the sentence?

• Leo's thoughts and a burrowing egg

• Archie's words and a burrowing egg

• maturity and rain

• ears and skin

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Like so many of Archie's words, they seemed not to enter through my ears but to settle there on my skin, there to burrow like tiny eggs awaiting the rain of my maturity, when they would hatch and I at last would understand.

The sentence uses which type of figurative language?

• hyperbole

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

....I looked at Archie. "Why can't she be..." He finished for me: "Like everybody else?" ...My thoughts and feelings were a wild, conflicting jumble.

This passage reflects Leo's _______ conflict.

• internal

• external

• both a and b

• neither a nor b

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CCSS.RL.6.2