U1-1 Red K.-1

What happened at the same time when he pulled

Ben into his boat?

• He grabbed hold of the collar on his life jacket.

• He summed all his strength to unhook him.

• He got his wet life jacket and soked parka off.

• He hit his elbow hard on the gunnel.

Brady took off his own coat and wrapped it around Ben because he was trying to protect him from...

• hyperthermia

• dehydration

• cerebral palsy

• the loss of taste and smell

Brady, J.T. and Digger used to go fishing or crabbing at...

• Spaniard's Neck

• an old dock

• the narrow channel near the cove

• the long strip of riprap near a construction site

Bradon Parks felt that Ben was a lot heavier than he would have thought, probably becuase he was so...

• waterlogged

• relucktant

• insistent

• intentional

Ben wondered if he should waste his time going up any of those little ...and.... now that they had found Mrs. DiAngelo downriver.

• streams and channel

• bay and cove

• inlets and creeks

• river curves and bends

There was once Tilly bark so insistently at the ceiling in the basement that made Mr. Parks take down part of the....

• throttle

• tall phragmites

• old piling

• insulation

Which did Tilly not do to show that she had found something in the distance?

• She thumped her tail back and forth.

• She hit Brady's knees with her tail.

• She put of front paws up on the edge of his boat.

• She jumped back into the narrow space in the bow.

Spaniard's Neck is a cape in...

• Washington D.C.

• Maryland

• West Virginia

• Arizona

Passing a marsh, Brady saw.... and he knew that he should turn his boat around because he did not plan to run aground.

• rotten teeth

• the remains of an old dock

• the opposite bank

• tall phragmites

What clues in the text indicate that Brady might be nervous about searching the creek?

• I wanted to be the one to find it.

• I hollered at the top of my lungs.

• I sped up and came back down the creek, closer to the opposite bank.

• I felt excited, but a little panicked, too.