Woods Runner Ch. 9-10

True or False?

A single rifle might cost a year's wages?

• True

• False

True or False?

Muskets were very accurate.

• True

• False

True or False

Most British soldiers carried rifles.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Only Americans carried rifles!

Which word best describes John Cooper's (Coop) character?

• discouraged

• vengeful

• sympathetic

• contemplative

Which statement best describes the main idea of Chapter 9?

• Samuel struggles to survive.

• Samuel has nightmares.

• Samuel dreams of his mother.

• Coop uses tobacco to get the poison out of Samuel's wound.

Read the following excerpt from chapter 9:

"Are you, will you, can you, do you...questions roaring through his mind."

What two type of literary devices are being used in this passage?

• simile

• repetition

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Look carefully at the following events. List the events in the correct order, and then choose the correct order from the choices below.

____ Samuel dreams about his mother.

____ Coop explains why the Redcoats and Iroquois are killing people.

____ Samuel learns he has been unconscious for 6-7 days.

____ Samuel's wound begins to ooze clear.

• 1, 2, 3, 4

• 4, 2, 1, 3

• 1, 4, 3, 2

Read the following excerpt, then explain what is happening to Samuel and what he is really hearing.

"Then a trapdoor came down, a lid, something thick and dark, and there was no light at all, just blessed darkness and sleep, sleep, sleep...and more screams."

Read the following excerpt from the text. Then explain what was really happening to Samuel.

"And then bouncing, incredibly rough bouncing, as if someone were jumping on a bed while he was trying to sleep."

Henry was a ____________ child. He never did what he was told to do.

• fractious

• barred

• ornate