Dear Birth Mother, Please Hit Reply

The passage says, ". . .I wanted to escape from the minutiae of my day". Which of these is a list of examples of activities that might be minutiae from someone's day?

• getting on an airplane, traveling to another country, relaxing by the beach

• waking up at 5:30 am, eating cereal, walking to the bus stop

• finding 100.00 on the ground and going to the mall to spend it.

Trifecta means a group of ___

• 2

• 3

• 4

"When I left, she said she would write a letter soon. I had faith we would figure it out. It took six weeks for that letter to arrive,. . .Her subsequent letters came at slower intervals. . ." What does subsequent mean in this excerpt?

• Coming after; following in time, place, or order.

• underground letters

• electronic; similar to email

The first sentence of the story says, "Our airport meeting was strained with awkward pauses and unasked questions." What does the word awkward mean?

• funny

• difficult or embarrassing

• angry

The text says, "She wrote about pedestrian matters like cleaning her basement and sports rivalries" How is the word pedestrian used in this sentence?

• a person who walks to get places

• a word that refers to children

• everyday; ordinary

Read the following excerpt from the selection:

"E-mail also seemed like the perfect medium for our covert operation, which she was hiding from her other children. It was a private world where we could build our relationship without outside pressure"

Which words in this excerpt help the reader understand the meaning of covert?

• "hiding", "private"

• "children", "relationship"

• "Email", "medium"

Read this excerpt from the selection:

"The simple commands — “Add as Friend,” “Send a Message,” “Comment” — made me panic. I had made a colossal mistake in unearthing her this way."

What does the word colossal mean?

• small

• huge; enormous

• accidental

• foolish

What does the word excerpt mean in the following sentence? (You will see it used throughout this Quizizz.)

"Read the following excerpt from the selection."

• interruption

• word

• a story

• a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document,

"When I told my boyfriend about my cyberstalking, he said, 'She’s still the same person.'" Look at the prefix, cyber-, in the word cyberstalking. What does the prefix mean?

• a prefix that designates something as pertaining to humans

• a prefix that designates something pertaining to computers, virtual reality and electronic communication.

• a prefix that means earth

This selection, "Dear Birth Mother, Please Hit Reply", is written in 1st person point of view. (it was written from the point of view of the person who the story happened to. Look for words like I, me, my, mine, we, and us).

Which of these sentences from the pasage shows 1st person point of view?

• " Computers don’t change choices."

• "Technology had already failed us."

• "But when I sat down at the computer one night several months ago, I wanted to escape from the minutiae of my day. … I wanted some mindless distraction."

• "See you Thursday at 11:15."