Birmingham, 1963 by Carole Boston Weatherford

Good readers should preview text in order to...

• get an idea of what the book is about so they don't have to read it all.

• find out what happens at the end before they read.

• predict and prepare their brains for the topic.

• make their teacher happy.

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The narrator in the book can best be described as

• young and hopeful.

• hateful and vengeful.

• insecure and stubborn.

• selfish and indifferent.

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The narrator is

• a ten-year-old white girl.

• a ten-year-old white boy

• a ten-year-old African-American girl

• Ruby Bridges.

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Which question was answered in the book?

• Why is there so much hate in the world?

• Who died in the Sunday school bombing?

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Read the following excerpt from the book:

Someone tucked a bundle of dynamite under the

church steps then lit a fuse of hate.

What can you infer from this passage?

• The bomb was planted by a person or persons.

• There will be fireworks

• The KKK was meeting at the church.

• The author likes metaphors.

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The purpose of the author's note is to

• let the author share her personal feelings.

• introduce you to the girls who died.

• provide background information for the event.

• promote her next book.

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From the text, you can infer that the narrator is

• racist.

• communist.

• anti-American.

• religious.

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What effects do the pictures have on the reader?

• They give a first-hand account and encourage an emotional response.

• They show this happened before there was color photography.

• They encourage the reader to protest.

• They keep the reader from having to read the text.

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Why was the narrator arrested the year she turned 10?

• She was marching for her rights.

• She disobeyed her parents.

• She sat in the "whites only" section.

• She stole her father's car.

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On the day she turned 10, the narrator wished...

• for a present from her four friends.

• for her father to take her home.

• for a birthday cake with candles.

• that she was still nine.

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