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What characteristics tell you that Barbed Wire Baseball is a biography?

• Zeni is writing about his own life

• The author Marissa Moss is writing about Zeni’s life

Zeni is ................................. baseball player.

• An American

• A Japanese

• An American- Japanese

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CCSS.L.4.3A

Zeni is a ................................. player.

• football

• basketball

• baseball

Why did everyone think that Zeni couldn’t play baseball?

• he is too big and tall

• he is too small and frail

• he is too brave and strong

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

The idiom “he was hooked” means: 

• he became very interested

• he is not very much interested

• he is careless

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CCSS.L.4.5B

frail means:

• very strong

• very weak

• very brave

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CCSS.L.4.4A

The idiom “you’re a mouse” means:

• you’re shy and weak-

• you’re brave and strong

• very brave

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CCSS.L.4.5B

What event in the story caused Zeni’s world of playing baseball collapse?

• Civil War

• Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor

• world war 2

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CCSS.RI.4.3

The idiom “he didn’t measure up” means:

• he isn’t fast enough

• he isn't tall enough

• he isn’t good enough

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CCSS.L.4.5B

Internment means:

• freedom

• as if in prison or confinement

• origin

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CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4