The Jacket_Text Evidence

How did the narrator feel about the jacket when he first saw it?

• disappointed

• delighted

• eager

• uninterested

Which piece of evidence best supports your answer to the previous question?

• I touched the vinyl sleeve, the collar, and peeked at the mustard-colored lining.

• From my bed, I stared at the jacket.

• I wanted to cry because it was so ugly and so big that I knew I’d have to wear it a long time.

• I put my hands in the pockets and flapped the jacket like a bird’s wings.

For how many years did the narrator have to wear the jacket?

• one year

• two years

• three years

• four years

Which piece of evidence best supports your answer to the previous question?

• I received C’s on quizzes and forgot the state capitals and the rivers of South America, our friendly neighbor.

• With a friend I spent my sixth-grade year in a tree in the alley, waiting for something good to happen to me in that jacket, which had become the ugly brother who tagged along wherever I went.

• That was the first afternoon with my new jacket. The next day I wore it to sixth grade and got a D on a math quiz

• I wore that thing for three years until the sleeves grew short and my forearms stuck out like the necks of turtles.

According to the narrator, how did the girls he knew respond to his jacket?

• The girls became MORE interested in him.

• The girls never noticed him before the jacket.

• The girls began to pay more attention to boys in nicer jackets.

• The girls made fun of the narrator and his ugly green jacket.

Which piece of evidence best supports your answer to the previous question?

• But that L-shaped rip on the left sleeve got bigger; bits of stuffing coughed out from its wound after a hard day of play.

• Even the girls who had been friendly blew away like loose flowers to follow the boys in neat jackets.

• Even though I was cold, I took off t he jacket during lunch and played kickball in a thin shirt, my arms feeling like braille from goose bumps.

• We saw girls walk by alone, saw couples, hand in hand, their heads like bookends pressing air together.

By the end of the story, how do the narrator’s feelings change about the jacket?

• The narrator grows to like the color of the jacket.

• The narrator finally accepts the jacket as his.

• The narrator eventually repairs the sleeve so that it won’t come apart again.

• The narrator decides that he no longer has to wear the jacket

Which piece of evidence best supports your answer to the previous question?

• Later, however, I swiped the jacket off the ground and went inside to drape it across my lap and mope.

• I finally Scotch-taped it closed, but in rain or cold weather the tape peeled off like a scab and more stuffing fell out until that sleeve shriveled into a palsied arm.

• The faces of clouds were piled up, hurting. I climbed the fence, jumping down with a grunt.

• I blame that jacket for those bad years. I blame my mother for her bad taste and her cheap ways. It was a sad time for the heart.