Sick Poem Quiz

Which word is a synonym for wrenched?   

• fixed

• injured

• not painful

• straight

Read line 26. What is the speaker trying to say?   

•   The speaker is sick with a high fever.

• The speaker needs medicine to get better soon.

• The speaker wants to go to school.
  
  

  After reading the last stanza, the reader can conclude -    (Inference / Draw Conclusions)

• The speaker does not feel well and needs medicine.

• The speaker was pretending to be sick in order to miss a day of school.

• The speaker is happy to miss a day of school.

• The speaker is starting to feel sick and has to miss school.

What does the speaker realize at the end of the poem?    (Inference - Sequence)

• The speaker realized that there was no school that day.

• The speaker realized that her back and feel were hurting

• The speaker was pretending to be sick when she actually was really sick

• The speaker will get into a lot of trouble for lying.

Read line 7.  This is an example of -    (Inference - Sequence)

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Which line from the poem shows imagery?    (Imagery / Sensory Details)

• Line 30

• Line 33

• Line 1

• Line 7

The reader can conclude that the main character -    (Character Analysis)

• Dislikes getting sick and staying in bed all day

• Does not want to miss school

• Enjoys going to school and learning

• Does not enjoy going to school and wants to stay home

The poet wrote this poem -    (Author’s Purpose)

• to entertain the reader with a nonfiction poem

• to entertain the reader with a humorous poem
  
  

• to entertain the reader with a free verse poem

• to entertain the reader with a limerick poem

Which of the following is true about this poem?

• The poem has ABAB rhyme pattern.

• The poem is a free verse poem.

• The poem has 4 stanzas and 32 lines.

• The poem has 32 stanzas and 4 lines.

This Poem is:

• Fiction

• Non-Fiction