Eleven and Story Elements

How does the speaker describe growing up?

• You become more mature with every year.

• You carry your previous years with you.

The story's point of view lets the reader know

• Mrs. Price's thoughts and feelings about the problem.

• Phyllis's thoughts and feelings about the sweater.

• Rachel's thoughts and feelings about the sweater.

• Sylvia's thoughts and opinion about Rachel.

At the end of the story, Rachel wishes that

• her birthday would just start over
• she had never seen the sweater
• she were 102 years old
• Sylvia had stayed home

In the story, Rachel thinks of herself as being ages ten, nine, eight, and on on. What is the author trying to get the reader to see about Rachel?

• She makes excuses for her poor behavior.

• Who she is at eleven is the result of everything that has happened to her in her past.

• She distracts herself when she feels unhappy.

• She knows why birthdays are such joyful occasions.

In paragraph 19, Rachel starts to cry because she is overwhelmed by her feelings of

• embarrassment

• anger

• guilt

• joy

Who is the protagonist, or the main character, in the story?

• Sylvia

• Rachel

• Mrs. Price

• Phyllis

The conflict (problem) in the story "Eleven" happens when

• Mrs. Price puts the sweater on Rachel's desk.

• Rachel sits on her mama's lap and wants to cry.

• Rachel begins to cry uncontrollably

• Phyllis Lopez remembers that the sweater belongs to her.

Why does Mrs. Price give the sweater to Rachel?

• Mrs. Price finds the sweater near

  Rachel's desk.

• Sylvia says that the sweater belongs to

  Rachel.

• The sweater matches Rachel's clothes.

• Rachel has been an impolite student.

Exposition is the...

• The end of the story where we find out what happened to the characters when the conflict is resolved.

• The turning point of the story that the rising action has been building too.

• Where the conflict is introduced and the story and rising action begin.

• Beginning of the story line where the world is built and the characters and setting are introduced.

Rising Action is...

• The main character or “good guy” of the story.

• Beginning of the story line where the world is built and the characters and setting are introduced.

• Where the story starts to get interesting and many of the main events happen. 

• The turning point of the story that the rising action has been building too.