The Unteachables Chapter 12

How does Parker kick off Spirit Week?

• Getting yelled at by Grandma because she was late for her meeting.

• Getting rear-ended at the stop light by the lady down the road.

• Getting arrested because the new cop thought his license was fake.

• Speeding to get to the market in order to sell their produce.

When Parker finally arrives to pick Grams up from her apartment, no one is there. He winds up finding her walking down the street, but she refuses to get into the truck because____________.

• Her mother taught her to be independent.

• Her mother taught her to hitch rides whenever she needed to go somewhere.

• Her mother never really said anything about that.

• Her mother taught her to never ride with strangers.

The Oriental Trading Company truck pulled into the school parking lot--the driver gets out carrying boxes. What is inside?

• Birthday announcements

• 
• Party decorations

• Vuvuzelas

In all those boxes, there must be enough noise power to bring down a herd of elephants. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? Which words?

• hyperbole

• Evidence: "...in all those boxes, there must be enough noise..."

• Evidence: "...enough noise power to bring down a herd of elephants."

• personifcication

If the administration gave out late slips, Mr. Kermit would get one for his _____ and spend most of his time in detention. Fill in the blank!

• agony

• tardiness

• stealth

• restraint

Mateo insists that what the Grinch DID was real to everyone in Whoville. Grinch did not like Christmas so...he stole it. What type of literary device is being used here?

• foreshadowing

• personification

• hyperbole

• synedoche

Although there is not a ten-thousand-foot cliff to throw these vuvuzelas off...there however is a(n) _________.

• ocean

• harbor

• river

• pond

Which character says, "We're already in trouble," she rumbles from her spot in the back of the room. "This class is trouble. What can they do to us--put us in here twice?"

• Mateo

• Elaine

• Parker

• Kiana

The kids need a distraction. Which charcter rears their giant foot up into the air and stomps on Barnstorm's sneakered foot?

• Parker

• Kiana

• Aldo

• Elaine

Mateo calculates in his head the number of vuvuzelas in the combined boxes...which is?

• a thousand and eight

• 10,000

• 1008

• 1500