6.5 Books To The Ceiling

1. What is the genre?

• Expository Text
• Poetry
• Non-Fiction

2. "Books to the ceiling, books to the sky. My piles of books are a mile high." This poem means

• The speaker has only a few books.
• Books can fly high in the sky.
• The speaker has lots of books in tall stacks.

3. In "Books to the Ceiling" what does this mean? I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

• The speaker is very old.
• He wants to read so many books, it will take a long time.
• The books are boring and will take a long time to read.

4. Who is the speaker in "I've Got This Covered"?

• The cover of a book
• A person who loves books
• An old man

5. What does "this sweet dance on the tongue" mean in "Eating While Reading"?

• Something tastes very good.
• A book can dance.
• The tongue likes to dance in your mouth.

6. Why does the author write "I only have seconds to show that you need to pick up this book"?

• It takes people a long time to decide on a book to read.
• People only read if they can sit in comfortable places.
• People quickly decide whether they want to read a book.

7. What is the message of the poem "Eating While Reading"?

• Books can be very interesting and grab your attention.
• Books are loud and demanding.
• It is not fun when books yell at you.

8. How does the speaker in "Books to the Ceiling" feel about books?

• He likes to read sometimes.
• He likes so many books it will take some time to read them.
• He thinks books are fun to stack in tall towers.

9. I've got dazzling colors- all you could want. I wish I had glitter and sparkles to flaunt.

• Want and flaunt mean the same thing
• Wish and flaunt mean the same thing
• I would flaunt something dazzling.

10. How does the speaker in "Eating While Reading" feel about eating while reading a book?

• He thinks its a bad idea.
• He thinks food tastes bad when you read.
• He things food tastes great when you read.