Walk Two Moons Ch. 11-18 Quiz

Mr. Birkway went around the whole room snatching journals.  Alex Cheevey’s journal was covered with basketball stickers. Christy’s and Megan’s were slathered over with pictures of male models. The cover of Ben’s was a cartoon of a boy with a normal boy’s head, but the arms and legs were pencils, and out of the tips of the hands and feet were dribbles of words.   

When he got to Phoebe’s desk, Mr. Birkway lifted up her plain journal and peeked inside.  Phoebe was trying to slide down in her chair.  “I didn’t write much.” Phoebe said.  “In fact, I can hardly remember what I wrote about at all.” 

By the time Mr. Birkway got to me, my heart was clobbering around so hard I thought it might leap straight out of my chest.  “Deprived child,” he said.  “You didn’t have a chance to write a journal.” 

“I’m new-” 

“New? How blessed,” he said.  “There’s nothing in this whole wide world that is better than a new person!” 

“So I didn’t know about the journals - “ 

“Not to worry!” Mr. Birkway said.  “I’ll think of something.” 

I wasn’t sure what that meant.  I thought maybe he would give me a whole lot of extra homework or something.  For the rest of the day, you could see little groups of people asking each other, “Did you write about me?” I was very glad I hadn’t written anything.  

For a while, we didn’t hear any more about the journals. 

Based on the details in the following passage what statement BEST provides an objective summary. 

• In school, the ELA teacher, Mr. Birkway collected the students’ summer writing journals, and many of the students, including Phoebe, were nervous about what they had written. Sal was worried because she had only started school this year, and she did not have a journal to turn in. Mr. Birkway told Sal he would think of a different assignment for her. 

• Mr. Birkway collected journals.  The students turned in the journals.  Sal didn’t have a journal to turn in.  At the end of class, Mr. Birkway gives Sal a different assignment.

• In School, Mr. Birkway collects the students’ journals.  Many students have decorated the covers of their journals to turn in.  Pheobe does not remember what she wrote in the journal, but it was plain on the outside.  The teacher got excited that Sal was a new student.  Sal did not have a journal to turn in, and this made her nervous she would get into trouble.

• In school, the teacher collects the summer writing journals.  All the students had journals to turn in except for Sal, and this made her anxious.  The teacher gave her another assignment to do instead of a journal, and Sal felt better.  The students talked about the journals all day. 

Gram was released from the hospital the next morning mainly because she was so ornery. Gramps wanted her to stay another day, but Gram climbed out of bed and said, “Where’s my underwear?” 

“I guess this cantankerous woman is getting out of here,” Gramps said. 

What does the underlined word MOST LIKELY mean?

• Sick

• Mean

• Cranky

• Rude

Outside the hospital, I heard the warbling of a bird, and it was such a familiar warble that I stopped and listened for its source. 

What word from the excerpt below better helps the reader understand the meaning of the underlined word?

• source

• hospital

• familiar

• listened

If the theme of Walk Two Moons is people should focus on the most important things in life, what text evidence best supports this theme? 

• "I was certain, however, that if your mother left, it would be something that mattered in the whole long course of your lifetime.”

• “As we left Phoebe’s house, there on the front steps was another white envelope with a blue sheet of paper inside.  The message was: Everyone has his own agenda.” 

• “Ever since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave one by one.”

• “The men danced in the outer circle and wore feather headdresses and short leather aprons.  On their feet were moccasins, and I thought again about Phoebe’s message: Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.”

Based on the description of Tom Fleet, what do you think Sharon Creech wants people to consider about strangers? 

• People should not leave their important belongings unattended. 

• People should not be quick to judge others. 

• A person can survive a snake bite. 

• Someone who is a stranger can think they are your friend. 

Which of the following examples is the best evidence that Sal is changing? 

• “In our room, the ‘Injun Joe’s’ embroidered on the towels had been changed with black marker to ‘Indian Joe’s’. I wished everybody would just make up their minds.” 

• “My father stood there looking around the room.  ‘I want to tell you something about Margaret,’ he said. “Well I don’t want to hear it.”  I was feeling so completely ornery.”

• “As we swept on across South Dakota toward the Badlands, the whispers no longer said, hurry, hurry or rush, rush.  They now said, slow down, slow down.”

• “I didn’t even wonder how he had met Mrs. Cadaver or how long he had known her.  I ignored her whole existence.  Besides, I was too busy throwing the most colossal temper tantrums.” 

Which of the following BEST demonstrates foreshadowing? 

• "In the hospital parking lot, Gram heard the song too. ‘Oh Salamanca,’ she said. ‘A singing tree!’ She pulled at Gramps’s sleeve. ‘Oh, it’s a good sign, don’t you think?’” 

• "I used to think about that raft a lot, and I actually believed that one day we might build a raft and float away down a river together. But when she went to Lewiston, Idaho, she went alone.” 

• "For a while, we didn’t hear any more about the journals.  We had absolutely no idea all the trouble they were going to cause.” 

• "He touched my arm. I have to admit, my instinct was to flinch but I caught myself. I pretended not to notice that his hand was resting there on my arm. The creature tickling my spine was back.” 

What element of the plot does chapter 15 “A Snake has a Snack” represent? 

• Falling action 

   

• Exposition 

• Climax 

• Rising action

Re-write the phrase without changing the meaning: “At first my father did not argue with me. He let me behave like a wild boar”. 

• Even though I was a wild boar at first, my father didn’t argue with me. 

• I was behaving like an angel, but my father didn’t mind. 

• Even though I was a wild boar, my father was upset with me. 

• At first, I was a wild boar, because my father didn’t argue with me.

Which of the following examples is the best evidence to demonstrate Mr. Birkway’s personality? 

• “He was tall and slim, and his bushy black hair made him look wild, but he had enormous deep brown cowlike eyes that sparkled all over the place”. 

• “He flung himself up and down the aisles, receiving the journals as if they were manna from heaven”. 

• “By the time Mr. Birkway got to me, my heart was clobbering around so hard I thought it might leap straight out of my chest. ‘Deprived child,’ he said”.

• ’Like Mr. Cadaver – as I told you before. Maybe Mr. Birkway helped her chop up her husband and bury him and maybe they were getting worried and decided to disguise the spot with a rhododendron bush’”.