Mr. Coombes Quiz_9/13/22

How does the text feature in Paragraphs 4 and 5 add meaning to the passage?

• A. It shows the normal hours of the candy shop. 

• B. It reveals how often the boys frequents the shop. 

• C. It provides a visual of what the boys saw upon arriving to the store

• D.  It proves that Dahl and his friends plan was successful.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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Reread Paragraph 11.

“We could see it all, the huge glass jar smashed to smithereens with the dead mouse lying in the wreckage and hundreds of many-coloured Gobstoppers littering the floor. “

 

What is the meaning of the word smithereens”?

• The mouse left fur all over the shop floor

• The glass was broken into large pieces across the floor.

• The Gobstoppers were crushed.

• The glass was shattered into tiny pieces.

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Dahl uses figurative language to describe their feelings in paragraph 15: 

“Alarm bells were beginning to ring faintly in our ears.

 

What type of figurative language is being used?

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

“Alarm bells were beginning to ring faintly in our ears.

Select the statement below that describes the tone and meaning implied by this language?

• It demonstrates the joy the boys have that their plot worked. 

• It shows Dahl excitement that Mrs. Pratchett is dead.

• It reveals the boys fear that their prank took a turn for the worse.

•    It shows the boys tremendous anxiety that the mouse was alive.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

What idea is developed in paragraph 23?

‘It gives her a heart attack,’ Thwaites announced. ‘Her heart stops beating and she’s dead in five seconds.

• Thwaites is a professional medical authority.

• The boys are responsible for Mrs. Pratchett going on vacation.

• Dahl’s prank was genius and it encouraged Mrs. Pratchett to close the shop.

• The boys believed Dahl was responsible for causing Mrs. Pratchett’s death.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.4