Eleven Review

Read the following passage: “What they don’t understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you’re eleven, you’re also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one.” Why does the author describe birthdays in this way?

• A. To emphasize that birthdays are important

• B. To explain how people sometimes feel younger than they are

• C. To show readers why people celebrate birthdays

• D. To tell readers how to figure out a person’s age

Which of the following similes is not used in the story to describe the way you grow old?

• A. Growing old is like an onion.

• B. Growing old is like the little wooden dolls that fit inside the other.

• C. Growing old is like the rings inside a tree trunk.

• D. Growing old is like the rings of an archery target

How does Rachel end up with the red sweater on her desk?

• A. Sylvia Saldivar says that the red sweater belongs to Rachel.

• B. Rachel says that the red sweater is hers.

• C. The red sweater, along with a crown, is always worn by the birthday boy or girl to celebrate the special day.

• D. Mrs. Price reads the identification tag on the collar, which has Rachel’s initials.

What does Rachel do with the red sweater on her desk?

• A. She folds it up neatly and pushes it to the corner of her desk.

• B. She moves it with a ruler to the corner of her desk because she doesn’t want to touch it.

• C. She pushes it off the desk and onto the floor.

• D. She puts it over the back of her desk chair.

What is Rachel’s reaction to wearing the red sweater?

• A. She takes off the red sweater and throws it on the floor.

• B. She approaches the teacher’s desk and tells Mrs. Price that the red sweater does not belong to her.

• C. She pulls her arms out of the red sweater and turns it inside out over her head to amuse her classmates.

• D. She cries uncontrollably at her desk

Why does Mrs. Price pretend as if everything is okay after Rachel gives Phyllis Lopez the sweater?

• A. She likes the sweater.

• B. She does not want to admit her mistake.

• C. She is too tired to say anything.

• D. She needs to get to the cafeteria for lunch.

Why is Rachel so excited about THIS particular day?

• It is her 11th birthday.

• It is Friday and it is the last day of school.

• It is her 10th birthday.

• She has had lots of fun with her friends today.

Rachal is angry with Sylvia Saldivar because she...

• borrowed her sweater without permission

• told the teacher that she really loved the red sweater in the lost-and-found.

• told the teacher that the sweater belonged to Rachal.

• she giggled at a a silly joke and Rachal thought she was talking about her.

Rachel's teacher places the sweater on her desk. Rachel responds by.....

• throwing up because the sweater smells.

• pushing the sweater closer and closer to the edge of her desk.

• spreading cottage cheese on the sweater so she won't have to wear it.

• dusting off the sweater and playing jump rope with it.

Mrs. Price, the teacher, seems rather....

• Silly and old

• grumpy and irritated with Rachel's behavior

• happy to be invited to her birthday party.

• Busy with lots of papers to grade.