LITERATURE TUESDAY 11/14 BELLRINGER (THE MONKEY'S PAW - PART 1)

What is the family doing at the beginning of the story?

• Awaiting a visitor

• Getting ready for bed

• Reading the Bible

• Harvesting crops

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Why did Sergeant Major Morris toss the monkey’s paw into the fire?

• He felt it was worthless.

• He didn’t mean to; it was an accident.

• He didn’t want bad fortune to fall upon the next person to make wishes.

• He would only sell it for money.

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According to the short story, what is likely to happen to the monkey paw at the end of this story?

• Someone else will get the three wishes.

• The father will destroy it to keep someone else from making wishes.

• The mother will get to make her three wishes.

• Nothing; the monkey paw will only work if 3 people use up their wishes

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What are Mr. White and Herbert doing when Sergeant Major Morris arrives at the White's house?

• playing a game of chess

• helping Mrs. White knit

• arguing over the weather

• eating dinner and telling stories

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You can tell that Sergeant Major Morris thinks that the monkey's paw is dangerous because he:

• taps his drinking glass against his teeth

• explains that he got his three wishes

• says that it is "dried to a mummy"

• throws the paw onto the fire

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What detail first helps you predict that Sgt. Major Morris's story about the monkey's paw may be true?

• Mr. White feels the paw move.

• Herbert beats Mr. White at chess.

• Everyone is sad after Morris leaves.

• Mr. White thinks that he sees faces in the fire.

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To believe in fate means that you believe in

• a choice of wishes

• another's point of view

• a power that determines events

• the strict rules that one must follow

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Why does Mr. White wish for two hundred pounds?

• He wants to be rich.

• Mr. White spends too much money paying Morris for the paw.

• Mrs. White complains about the state of Mr. White's clothes.

• Herbert suggests 200 pounds will help pay off the house.

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How does the weather affect the mood at the start

• It is raining so it suggests something bad.

• The snow makes it cold.

• There is sunshine so it suggests something good.

• The heat suggests the family is irritable.

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In "The Monkey's Paw," why does Sergeant Major Morris grow pale when the Whites ask him about his three wishes on the monkey's paw?

• The idea of magic frightens him.

• He is trying not to laugh as he fools his friends.

• He is remembering the horrible effects of his wishes.

• He is ashamed of believing in the monkey's paw.

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