Wonder Pages 49-80

“But if someone doesn’t have a summer name and wants to sit with us,” she said very seriously, “we’ll still let them if they’re nice, okay?”

What does this sentence suggest about Summer’s character?

• Summer feels sorry for August and wants others to feel that way as well.

• Summer is popular and doesn’t want to be the only person sitting at Auggie’s table with him.

• Summer thinks Auggie needs to let more people sit at his table so he will make friends.

• Summer is a very kind person who wants Auggie and others to feel accepted.

Which of the following examples from Part I best supports that Auggie feels insecure about this appearance when meeting new people?

• “I would have been more nervous about meeting Mr. Tushman if I’d known I was also going to be meeting some kids from the new school.”

• “‘Hi,’ I mumbled, dropping my hand into his hand while I looked down at his feet. He was wearing red Adidas.”

• “He was talking as he closed the door to his office and sat down behind his big desk, though I wasn’t really paying much attention to what he was saying.”

• “Mom sat down in a chair in front of Mr. Tushman’s desk, and even though there was another chair right next to hers, I decided to stand beside her.”

Mom said: “Who was that, Auggie?”

“Summer,”

“Is she in your class?”

“I have lots of classes.”

“Is she in any of your classes?” Mom said.

“I don’t know.”

Which of the following inferences best supports why Auggie was being so short with his mom in this conversation after the first day of school?

• He was mad at her because she made him go to school, and he was giving her a version of the silent treatment.

• He was sad because people were mean to him at school, and he wanted to get away from the school so he could cry to his mom.

• He was too cool to answer her silly questions now that he was in school, so he was aggravated by her being nosy.

• He was overwhelmed by his first day at school and was taking his frustration out on his mom because she initiated the idea that he should be in school.

Why does Via make such a big deal about the Padawan braid?

• Via knew that August didn’t just cut it off without reason because he’d been growing it for years, so she assumed that someone said something at school to make Auggie feel insecure.

• Via was super excited about it because she hated the braid and thought it was childish.

• Via didn’t really care about the braid; she was just being dramatic because she had a bad day at school.

• Via had feared that August would get made fun of at school because of it, so she was relieved he decided to get rid of it.

On page 72, after the chemistry experiment in Mrs. Rubin’s class, August compares himself to the old moldy cheese from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Why did August use this metaphor?

• His classmates thought he smelled weird, so they were staying away from him.

• He could tell that his classmates were trying to avoid touching him like the kids avoided the old moldy cheese in the book.

• August appeared yellow like the cheese in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book.

• His classmates thought that he caught some sort of cooties from the cheese.

Which of the following comments (made by Auggie) is the best piece of evidence to show August’s love of Halloween?

• “My fifth year I was an astronaut.”

• “In homeroom, we all talked about what we were going to be for Halloween.”

• “This year I am going to be Boba Fett; not Boba Fett the kid in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, but Boba Fett the man from Star Wars Episode VL The Empire Strikes Back.”

• “At lunch the next day, Summer asked me what I was going to be for Halloween. Of course, I’d been thinking about it since last Halloween, so I knew right away.”

“I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.

What theme, or life lesson, is this passage helping establish in the novel?

• Enjoy the simple things in life.

• Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.

• It’s more important to be kind than right.

• Bullies can be overcome.

In “The Bleeding Scream,” August overhears a conversation between Jack Will and Julian. Which of the following is most likely the reason that August wanted to “run out of the class” and the reason he started crying and called home from school?

• He overheard Julian talking about him and his facial deformity on his favorite day of the year.

• He wasn’t able to wear the Boba Fett costume because it was too difficult for him to put on by himself.

• He realized that his very best friend at school, one of his only friends, was basically just being nice to him because Mr. Tushman told him to.

• He heard the mummy say that he “[looked] like one of those shrunken heads.”

Why was Via confused when she first saw August?

• He was covered in bandages.
• He didn't look like her baby doll.
• He didn't cry like the babies on TV.
• She wasn't allowed to hold him.

Which quote from August best shows the reader that he has something wrong with his appearance?

• “I know ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds.”

• “I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid.”

• “But I’m kind of used to how I look by now.”

• “Via doesn’t see me as ordinary.”