Questions to Accompany the Book Dirt

The author of the book Dirt is

• Denise Gosliner Orenstein

• Percy Jackson

• Dr. Earl Jenkins

• Bob Johnson Jr.

The main character in this story is a little boy.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Reorder the following

• once explained

• that they

• My father

• named me

• Yonder.

Yonder was sad because her (a)   had died.

Answer explanation

Her mother had died four years ago.

Yonder had an unusual childhood disorder following the death of her mother. What was it?

• She stopped speaking.

• She had asthma.

• She had red hair.

• She had one eye.

Yonder attended school at ​ (a)   MIddle School.

• Robert Frost
• George Washington
• Robert Johnson
• Irving Washington

The writer used the following simile or comparison: "..my arms wound around my khaki jacket like a four-armed octopus, determined not to let anyone get my goat. I found it helpful to remember that an octopus has three whole ​ (a)   -if one was ever ​ (b)   , there'd be another two to ​ (c)   back on."

• hearts
• broken
• fall
• stomachs
• sit

​ (a)   ​ (b)   was the disgusting, short and stumpy, shaved head little boy that Yonder had known since kindergarten.

• Haywood
• Prune
• Hillbilly
• Jenkins
• Roy
• Junior

At the beginning of the book, Yonder ran into trouble at her locker when she discovered her _________had been covered in glue and pen ink.

• gym shorts

• shirt

• back pack

• locker door

Principal Flint ​ (a)   Yonder for the gym shorts incident. So Yonder stopped going to school for the entire ​ (b)   .

• suspended
• week
• congratulated
• day
• whipped
• month