True Diary… chapter 2

From the first paragraph, what can you infer about Junior’s (the narrator) financial status?

• He is very rich

• He is very poor

• He likes peanut butter and jelly

• He is a magician

What happens to Junior’s dog?

• He ran away

• He was hungry and ate Junior’s sandwich.

• He was sick and Junior’s dad shot him

• He was sick and went to the vet

How did Junior’s mom react to Junior’s worries about Oscar?

• She told him not to worry about Oscar.

• She ignored him.

• She told him to take Oscar to the vet

• She told him they could not afford a vet for Oscar

“We Indians should be better liars, considering how often we’ve been lied to.”

What is Junior talking about?

• He is saying that “Indians” were lied to when they had land taken from them.

• He is saying that “Indians” are lied to about the money they make

• He is saying that teachers lie to them,

What are the types of jobs he could get on the reservation?

Check off all of the jobs Junior mentions…

• card dealer at a casino

• paper route delivery person

• grocery store worker

• business person

• doctor

Who is Oscar?

• Junior’s classmate

• Junior’s brother

• Junior’s dog

• Junior’s neighbor

What happens to Oscar?

• He gets sick and is killed by Junior’s dad

• He runs away

• He is adopted by another family

• He gets sick and goes to the vet.

What does it mean to say that you “deserve to be poor”?

• It means that you are rewarded by being poor.

• It means that people are chosen to be poor.

• It means that you think you did something wrong and are punished by being poor.

Junior believes that if possible, his mom would have gone to….

• Disney

• college

• work

• another country

Junior believes that his mom would have gotten a job as a…

• doctor

• writer

• teacher

• cartoonist