I Survived..Tsunami Quiz 1

Chapter 2 - Reread this dialogue between Ben and his little brother, Harry:

"You know what I'm going to wish for?" Harry said, leaning in close. His coppery eyes sparkled. "I'm going to wish for Daddy to come back to us." The words hit Ben right in the throat. "Harry," he said sharply. "You know Dad is gone, and you can't bring him back."

The words hit Ben right in the throat. Do words have hands? NO! Can words hit like a person? NO! Then what does that sentence mean?

• The sentence means that the words surprised Ben and hurt him.

• The sentence means that the words made Ben happy.

The author describes the wave as..."swallowing factories, chewing up highways and bridges."

What does this sentence mean?

• The sentence means that the wave was hungry.

• The sentence means that the wave destroyed factories, highways and bridges.

Personification is a technique that writers use to make their writing ...

• interesting

• boring

True or False: Personification is giving human qualities to inhuman things.

• True

• False

A clue in the word to help you remember it is ...

• cation

• son

• person

What can we learn in a flashback?

• info about the character

• what the ending will be

When you predict, you are ...

• guessing what will happen next.

• taking notes.

In Chapter 3, I predict Harry

• will need to go to the doctor.

• will only need a band-aid.