Dear Primo Reading and Vocab Quiz

In the story, there are skyscrapers in the city. What are skyscrapers?

• loud cars

• long trains

• dark tunnels

• tall buildings

What does Charlie mean when he says the lights from the city look like the stars from the sky?

• The city lights look as high as the stars.

• The city lights are brighter than the stars.

• The city lights look smaller than the stars.

• The city lights are as important as the stars.

How does Carlitos get to school?

• He walks down the street.

• He takes the subway.

• He rides his bicycle.

• He rides the bus.

What happens near the end of the story?

• The cousins write about their favorite foods.

• The cousins write about how they get to school.

• The cousins write about what they do after school.

• The cousins write about holidays in their countries.

Why does the author switch between Carlitos’s and Charlie’s letters during the story?

• to show how the boys live

• to teach about living in Mexico

• to explain what food is like in America

• to show that the boys want to visit each other

A _____ is a section of a community with streets on all of its sides.

• Emergency

• costumes

• block

• distract

describes a recording of movements and actions that you can see on a television or computer screen

• video

• hydrant

• venturing

• drastic

An outdoor pipe firefighters use to get water to put out fires

• march

• consult

• drastic

• hydrant

When people do this, they walk with even steps, often in a group

• costumes

• video

• hydrant

• march

Special clothes that people may wear to pretend that they are from another time or place.

• costumes

• hydrant

• emergency

• video