Quiet Town by Jason Gurley

What creature does Pippa bring home?

• Jellyfish

• Crab

• Lobster

• Kelp

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What is the name of Bev's husband?

• Benji

• Benjamin

• Jason

• Gordy

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How long did people think it would take for glacial melt to effect the world?

• 5

• 25

• 50

• 75

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What celebrity are Gordy and Benji compared to?

• Harrison Ford

• Ron Perlman

• Clint Eastwood

• Robert Redford

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What is the main example of figurative language in this quote?

"Ezze cried. She high-stepped around her cane as another rivulet ran through the yellowed grass on the shoulder of the road. And in the quiet then they could hear it: the water, its thousand narrow fingers, creeping through the dead lawns and over the bleached asphalt. "

• Synecdoche

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

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Because she ignored the changes in the environment,

• Bev and her son will face no consequences.

• Bev and her child will be able to escape danger.

• Bev and her child will suffer.

• Bev and her child will live happily ever after.

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Read the following excerpt from "Quiet Town."

"She was in the laundry room, bent over a basket of Benjamin’s muddy trousers and grass-stained T-shirts and particularly odorous socks, when a rap sounded on the screen door."

This is an example of . . . .

• allusion

• imagery

• simile

• hyperbole

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Read the following sentence from "Quiet Town."

"Benjamin had been scrambling around in the front yard, kicking dried-out pinecones around like footballs."

This sentences provides an example of . . . .

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

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The following sentence provides an example of . . . .

"The thought that he might not see twenty was a block of ice in her gut."

• personification

• a simile

• a metaphor

• hyperbole

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The following sentence provides an example of . . . .

"Bev padded along in her flip-flops, and as Ezze fell silent, Bev’s shoes pock-pocked like tennis balls. There was a sound she hadn’t heard in a long time."

• hyperbole

• understatement

• alliteration

• mystery

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