My Favorite Chaperone Review (Up to Line 500)

Which statement best describes the main conflict in the story?

• She wants to go to the school dance, but she isn’t sure she should attend because she can’t dance.

• Maya has to do her mother’s job when her mother is injured.

• She wants to go to the school dance, but she thinks her parents are unlikely to give her permission.

• Maya wants to be best friends with Marcia Egness.

Maya and her family came to the United States from...

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Which sentence suggest that Maya is trying to escape from the reality of her dad's anger.

• His silence filled every corner of the cab like a dark cloud, slowly suffocating me with its poisonous rage.

• Papa's neck was deep red, and the skin on the back of my hands tingled with fear.

• We screeched to a stop in front of our building.

• I lay my head back against the seat and closed my eyes, squeezing them shut, and took myself far away until I was safe on the bars at the beautiful gymnastics meet in the sky.

What is Maya's motivation for misinterpreting Nurzhan's principal's words?

• She dislikes the principal.

• She is afraid of what her father will do to her brother.

• she wants to leave the office quickly.

• She thinks the principal is making too big a deal about the fight.

What do Maya’s thoughts, feelings, and actions in response to her mother’s injury reveal about her traits and motivations?

• She is caring, obedient, and wants to help her family.

• She cares about her brother and wants him to help her out.

• She can’t cook and cleans slowly but wants to improve.

• She is self-centered and wants to win in gymnastics.

What happens when Maya has to translate for her father after Nurzhan got in a fight?

• She translates so Nurzhan gets in more trouble.

• She can't translate since she doesn't speak Russian.

• She translates exactly what the principal says.

• She translates so Nurzhan doesn't get in too much trouble.

Which phrase from the selection conveys Maya's father's anger when he sees her with Daniel?

• I ran to the cab

• splintered into a million pieces

• glistening dark leather jacket

• roared in front of me

Which is a possible theme in "My Favorite Chaperone"?

• Lying is okay in certain situations.

• Never judge a book by its cover.

• Family is very important.

• We all have the capacity for good and evil.

Which is a possible theme of "My Favorite Chaperone"?

• Children of immigrants understand American culture better than their parents do.

• Strict parenting results in children who get in trouble

• People from other countries find they dislike America once they live there for a while.

• Laziness can have negative consequences

What is an INTERNAL conflict?

• A problem that takes place between a character and an outside force (example: two or more people in a fight, )

• A series of events.

• A problem that takes place inside a characters mind (example: you deciding whether to cheat on a test or not)

• It introduces the characters, setting, and conflict.