The Day I Didn't Go to the Pool

Which of the following best describes a story as realistic fiction?

• It is not really fiction.

• It describes events that could have happened in real life.

• It has fictional people, events, and places.

• It is totally true.

From the first two paragraphs of the story, the reader understands the narrator is ___

• changing throughout the story

• telling the story in a flashback

• confused by all that is going on

• planning the future

Read these sentences from paragraph 5

I had totally spaced out that she was going for a job interview. Obviously that was more important than swimming.

The main purpose of these sentences is to show that the narrator is...

• crazy

• mature

• angry

• alarmed

This story is told by a

• small child

• teenage girl

• teenage boy

• grandma

Where had the family lived before moving to the small rented trailer house?

• a large home near their school

• an apartment in the city

• a new condominium

• in their car

Which of the following did the main character NOT do while taking care of his/her younger siblings?

• put the children down for naps

• got the pool out for them to play in

• made animal-shaped pancakes

Why didn't the main character notice the approaching tornado earlier?

• He was swimming

• He was sleeping

• He was reading a magazine with his headphones on

• He had died

Where had the main character learned about tornado safety?

• from baby sitter training courses he had taken

• from Google searching it

• from his friends

• from an assembly at school

Which of the following is an example of a simile?

• The tornado sucked up everything like a giant vacuum cleaner.

• The tornado was a vacuum.

• The tornado was loud and dangerous.

• Tornadoes can be very destructive.

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• The funnel was getting closer and closer.

• The funnel was a monster train churning through the sky.

• The funnel was larger than he had expected it to be.