Doris is Coming by ZZ Packer

What is the genre of the text?

• Short story

• Autobiography

• Science fiction

• Informational Text

Answer explanation

“Doris Is Coming” is a short story about an African American girl who goes to a local soda fountain and sits at the counter. The story is set in the South in the 1960s, when groups of young black people risked their lives sitting at Whites-Only lunch counters in order to challenge racial segregation.

What is the name of the business place where Doris went during the story?

• Clovee's Five and Dime

• Wendy's

• Wal-mart

• Cindy's Place

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

"Without looking up she said, “Sorry. We don’t serve colored people.” “Good.” Doris said. “I don’t eat them.” "

What does Doris’s statement to the waitress in the paragraph reveal about her character?

• It reveals her unease.

• It reveals her fear.

• It reveals her ambition.

• It reveals her courage.

Answer explanation

Doris uses the line “I don’t eat them” to respond to the waitress’s comment about serving “colored” people. Doris was “glad to have a chance to use it.” The joke intended to lighten the mood and to catch the workers off-guard.

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CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.W.7.9A

What is Doris’s primary motivation for going into Clovee’s Five and Dime?

• To protest White-only lunch counters/challenge segregation practices.

• She likes the shakes and food they serve there.

• To have a quiet area to study her world history.

• To meet her friends and hang out there.

Answer explanation

The story is set in the South

in the 1960s, when groups of young black people risked their lives sitting at Whites-Only lunch counters in order to challenge

racial segregation.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

What can the reader infer about the two white men sitting at the counter of Clovee’s Five and Dime?

• They were happy to see Doris.

• They disapproved of Doris being there.

• They were there to support Doris.

• They didn't care, they were just shopping.

Answer explanation

"The two men talking looked over at her and shook their heads... "The man walked over with a shake and gave it to the waitress, who bent the straw toward herself and began to drink it. “Look,” the man said to Doris, “I wouldn’t sit here. I wouldn’t do that.”"

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.6

What happens to Doris when she sits down at an "all-white" counter?

• She was excited because it was an adventure for her.

• She was nervous and began to shake and sweat.

• She was removed by the owner of "Clovee's Five and Dime".

• The white customers shouted at her.

Answer explanation

"She sat. Shaking, she brought out her World History book. She’d made a book cover for it with a paper bag, and she was glad she’d

done it because she was sweating so much it would have slipped from her hands otherwise".

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CCSS.RL.7.1

What does "intimidate" mean?

• To feel frightened or threatened.

• To feel accepted

• To discriminate

• Separation

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CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.4

“I don’t know. I don’t know. I just don’t make the rules and I feel sorry for you, but I don’t make ’em.”

What can the reader infer about the waitress's statement to Doris?

• The waitress doesn't like to serve people of color.

• The waitress did not know about the store policy

• The waitress believes in the store's policy

• The waitress seems uncomfortable with the store’s policy.

Answer explanation

The waitress looked to the man making the shake, eyes pleading for help. “I don’t know. I don’t know. I just don’t make the rules and I

feel sorry for you, but I don’t make ’em.”

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.6

Which sentence best explains why Doris is having doubts about going to Clovee’s Five and Dime?

• She realizes she knows people in the store.

• She thinks she should not have come alone.

• She discovers she cannot place an order.

• She forgets to tell her parents

Answer explanation

"It occurred to her that other students who did sit-ins were all smarter than she; they’d banded together, and had surely told others of their whereabouts, whereas she had foolishly come to Clovee’s all by herself.

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CCSS.RL.7.6

What is the waitresses' perspective at the end of the story?

• She has a daughter and realizes that they aren't different. She even feels a little guilty about the situation.

• She thinks Doris made a bad decision of coming into the store.

• She thinks Doris is hungry and offered Doris some of her milkshakes.

Answer explanation

The waitress said, “Student? High school?”

“Yes, Ma’am. Central.”

“My daughter’s over at Iroquois.”