Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, ch 1: The Diagnosis

Who is telling the story?

• Karen

• Peg's mother

• the doctor

• a narrator

The setting of the story is ...

• Austin, Texas

• Austin Rivers

• Austin, Minnesota

• Austin, Indiana

In 1943, there were 42,033 cases of polio reported in the U.S. Round up the number of cases of polio to the nearest thousand.

• 42,100

• 42,000

• 43,000

• 4,200,330

For a week, Peg and her classmates had been working on the seventh-grade (a)  

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

Point of View: What point of view is the story told?

• The story is told in third person

• Chapter 1 is narrated in second person

• The excerpt is told in first person

• This chapter book is recounted in plural form

Answer explanation

The story is told in first person. The narrator says "I never thought it would happen to me". The words I and me, refer to the 1st person

In Peg's last class, the students were practicing a song written by Emma Lazarus. Where are the lyrics of the song found at? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=datd7g0Cuik

• The lyrics are found in the music sheet.

• The lyrics are written in the Statue of Liberty

• The lyrics are found in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC

• The lyrics are the inscription on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.

Tell what happened first when Peg was at school.

• She collapsed, scattering her books on the floor.

• Peg tightened her leg muscles for a few seconds and relaxed them.

• A twitching muscle in her left thigh was bothering her.

• Peg stretched her leg forward and rotated the ankle.

Why did Peg feel goosebumps in her arms?

• Because the lyrics of the song made her feel excited.

• She felt goosebumps in her arms because that's the first symptom polio.

• Peg felt goosebumps because she was eager for the Homecoming parade.

• Because Peg was going to sing at the Statue of Liberty in New Yor.

"...my legs buckled as if I had nothing but cotton inside my skin" is a example of

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Where was Peg when she sloshed (spilled) the milk?

• Peg was in the school cafeteria.

• She was down the seventh grade hallway after lunch.

• Peg was home having lunch.

• She was at the doctor's office when she sloshed the milk.