Lesson 2 elar 8b

"Sleeping": Which of the following would be the best way to describe the directions given to Harriet by Mr. and Mrs. Winter?

• difficult and complex

• common and expected

• normal and easy

• specific and strict

"Sleeping" : Which of the following best describes Harriet, the babysitter for the evening?

• a family friend whom they trust

• older and very responsible

• young and inexperienced with children

• an experienced babysitter

"Sleeping" : Which of the following is NOT something that occurs in the story?

• Harriet wonders why she was asked to babysit given her lack of experience

• Harriet cannot hear Charles inside his room

• Harriet realizes that the door to Charles's room is locked

• Harriet becomes extremely scared because she's left alone.

What does Harriet learn on her way home?

• Mrs. Winter is probably grieving the loss of a child.

• Mr. Winter does not want to pay Harriet because she tried to open the door.

• Mrs. Winter doesn't understand that there is no baby in the room.

• Mr. Winter thinks his wife is crazy.

"Sleeping": Why is the interaction between Mr. Winter and Harriet at the swim club significant to the story's plot?

• Mr. Winter knows Harriet to be mature for her age, so he asks Harriet to take the unusual babysitting job to calm his wife's concerns.

• Mr. Winter asks her to babysit even though she has never seen him before, implying that he doesn't care who babysits Charles and he is a neglectful father.

• Harriet suspects that Mr. Winter only approached her to babysit because of her age and because she's a girl; this awareness is one of the first steps towards her growing up.

• Mr. Winter asks her to babysit even though she has never seen him before; this unusual approach is a clue that something is off concerning the Winter family.

"Sleeping": Why is it significant that Mr. Winter tells her she would not have to give the baby a bottle or even check on the baby?

• they show that Mr. Winter has great faith in Harriet's abilities

• they show that Harriet has little experience

• these are things that one would be expected to do when babysitting

• because Mr. Winter is doing all the talking while his wife is silent.

What does Harriet come to understand about this babysitting job?

• the family is ashamed of their baby

• the family is abusing their baby and didnt want her to see

• there wasn't actually a baby there at all

• they were actually watching her from another room in the house

"Sleeping" : Which of the following best describes a theme of the story?

• Guilt can cause great changes in a person

• People sometimes grieve in mysterious ways.

• Death can force a person to grow up more quickly

• Family supports each other no matter what

Sleeping: Which of the following quotes best supports the theme of the story?

• "She wonders what Charles looks like. She wasn't even sure how old he was. Why had she agreed to babysit when Mr. Winter approached her at the swim club?" (Paragraph 4)

• "Mrs. Winter seems to be waiting for her to leave before checking on the baby... when they reached her house, he said, my wife. He hesitated, then he said, You understand, don't you? (Paragraph 6)

• "two hours of reading all the boring mails piled neatly on the desk in the bedroom and looking through a depressing wedding album" (Paragraph 3)

• "Harriet had never held a baby, except for one brief moment, when she was about six, when Mrs. Antler next door has surprisingly bestowed on her the tight little bundle that was their new baby, Andrea" (Paragraph 2)

Sleeping: Which of the following is the best sign that Mr. Winter thought Harriet was mature enough to handle this situation?

• he paid her a lot of money to do little

• he trusted her to not actually try to look in on the child

• he paid her even though she ate all their M&M

• he expected her to understand that Mrs. Winter was grivening the loss of a child.