Feathered Friend REVIEW

Claribel, the pet in the story, is a:

• falcon

• canary

• eagle

• duck

Which image best represents Claribel?

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Who is Sven Olsen?

• a construction worker who builds space shuttles

• a construction worker/astronaut who works on the space station

• an angry gigantic man who does not like birds

Look back at paragraph 2. What is surpising about Sven's appearance (how he looks)?

• he is a Nordic giant: large and muscular

• he is small and wiry (thin/lean/skinny)

• he is yellow a canary

Why is Claribel aboard the space station?

• She is part of an authorized, top-secret experiment

• All of the astronauts voted to bring her aboard

• She is Sven Olsen's pet and he does not want to leave her behind.

In paragraph 5, the narrator explains, “I was sitting in the little cubbyhole

laughingly called my office.” What do we learn about the setting?

• Inside the space station is large and roomy

• Inside the space station is small and cramped

Who is the NARRATOR of the story "Feathered Friend"?

• Sven Olsen

• Claribel

• an astronaut aboard the space station

How do the other astronauts react when they realize Claribel is aboard the space station?

• they are angry and want to send her back to Earth

• they are amused and begin to see her as a pet

What do we learn from this description? "Claribel weighed practically nothing, her food requirements were tiny—and she was not worried, as most animals would have been, by the absence of gravity"

• a canary is a bad choice as a pet for the space station.

• a canary is a good choice as a pet for the space station.

What does the word smuggled most likely mean? "Sven didn’t confess to her ownership for several days...he had smuggled her up on the last ferry from Earth"

• to sneak or hide something from one place to another

• to announce loudly that you are doing something

• to bring attention to something that you are trying to take somewhere