Save Me a Seat (Friday Part 1)

What does Ravi bring in for his personal reflection object?

• a dish of M&Ms

• a cricket bat

• leeches

• a tiffin box

How do both Joe and Ravi feel as they walk to school on Friday?

• scared

• angry

• hopeful

• defeated

Who got sick during Ravi's story?

• Miss Frost

• Lucy Mulligan

• Tim / Jim

• Emily Mooney

What does Ravi finally work up the courage to do?

• tell Mrs. Beam that she is pronouncing his name wrong

• sit with Caleb at lunch

• eat meat

• play baseball

What do the leeches symbolize?

• hard work

• freedom

• anger

• sickness

Whose notecard read, "there is more to me than meets the eye."

• Joe

• Lucy

• Dillon

• Ravi

What does Ravi do to redeem himself from his past bullying behaviors?

• brings Joe some cookies

• replaced the blue M&M that Dillon took from Joe's dish

• punches Dillon when he takes Joe's M&M

• apologizes in front of the class

Math the sentence parts.

• something from Joe's bowl.

• Ravi sees Dillon steal

• drops off the card about the project.

• Mrs. Beam smiles at Joe when he

• Joe and his mother close it.

• Dillon leaves the car trunk open, and

Which line from the text contains a cause-effect relationship?

• I shake my head. "I'm okay."

• "Do you need your plugs?" my mother asks me.

• The wind is blowing, and it's really pouring now.

• Everybody is honking their horns because Ravi's mom's minivan is blocking traffic.

How does the setting shape the plot?

• The day is rainy with a thunderstorm going on.

• The characters are in 5th grade at Albert Einstein Elementary, a school named after a scientific genius.

• Joe and Ravi can't avoid Dillon because they sit together in Mrs. Beam's class.

• The story takes place in New Jersey where school starts back in early September.