"Click-Clack The RattleBag" by Neil Gaiman

The genre of a story is determined by:

• the subject, the setting, and the plot

• the point of view and the setting

• the parts of the story

• the theme

Read the excerpt from the story below:

Yes,” said the boy, soberly. “I am very glad you’re here.” He seemed less precocious now. His hand found mine, and he held on to my fingers comfortably, trustingly, as if he’d known me all his life. I felt responsible and adult. I did not know if the feeling I had for his sister, who was my girlfriend, was love, not yet, but I liked that the child treated me as one of the family. I felt like his big brother, and I stood taller, and if there was something unsettling about the empty house I would not have admitted it for worlds.

Based off this, the reader can infer the narrator is starting...

• to grow tired of the boy

• to grow bored of the boy

• to feel jealous of the boy

• to feel responsible for the boy

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"The hallway of the big house was chilly and _________ and dark."

• soberly

• tousled

• unrelentingly

• drafty

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"He pushed open the door to the attic room. It was perfectly dark, now, but the opening door disturbed the air, and I heard things rattle gently, like dry bones in thin bags, in the slight wind. Click. Clack. Click. Clack. Like that.

I would have pulled away, then, if I could, but small, firm fingers pulled me forward, unrelentingly, into the dark."

The narrator is hesitant because...

• They might not be able to hear his girlfriend when she returns

• They might not be able to see inside the perfectly dark room

• He is finally realizing Click-Clacks might be real and the boy is one of them.

• The boy is far too precocious for him

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Is the following statement an inference about Click-Clack the Rattlebag or is it something that the author directly stated?

The boy and the narrator walk all the way to the attic.

• Inference

• Directly Stated

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Which piece of evidence best supports the idea that the narrator was possibly near or around a Click-Clack?

• "We were climbing wooden steps now." (Paragraph 53)

• "There was that precocious amusement again." (Paragraph 58)

• "He pushed open the door to the attic room." (Paragraph 59)

• "I heard things rattle gently, like dry bones in thin bags." (Paragraph 59)

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Is the following statement an inference about Click-Clack the Rattlebag or is it something that the author directly stated?

The boy asks the narrator to tell him a story.

• Inference

• Directly Stated

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The boy tells the narrator all of the following about Click-Clacks except:

• they look like spiders

• they look like what you least expect

• they drink you

• they leave you as a bag of rattling bones

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Based on the excerpt, how does the narrator feel about the boy's sister?

• He is unsure of his feelings for her

• He dislikes her

• He is in love with her

• He is indifferent towards her

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Is the following statement an inference about Click-Clack the Rattlebag or is it something that the author directly stated?

The boy is afraid of Click-Clacks.

• Inference

• Directly Stated

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