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Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Vocabulary- I would never have won the singing award if my _________ had not played so well.

a)

audition

b)

accompanist

c)

sonata

d)

grimaced

2.

Vocabulary- Do you plan to _________ for the lead role in the play?

a)

sonata

b)

audition

c)

simultaneously

d)

tread

3.

Vocabulary- Can you juggle three balls___________?

a)

grimaced

b)

authority

c)

simultaneously

d)

accompanist

4.

Vocabulary- During last evening's concert, the orchestra played a Mozart __________ beautifully.

a)

commotion

b)

audition

c)

compose

d)

sonata

5.

Vocabulary- The singer requested piano music as their _____________.

a)

accompaniment

b)

souvenir

c)

audition

d)

enrollment

6.

Vocabulary- Frank _______________ when he heard the teacher's nail scrape on the chalkboard.

a)

exhausted

b)

simultaneously

c)

glowed

d)

grimaced

7.

This selection is most like ______.

a)

a poem

b)

realistic fiction

c)

historical fiction

d)

a biography

8.

What is Holly's problem?

a)

Holly's mother cannot drive her to the rehearsal.

b)

Her accompanist is sick.

c)

Mary can't play the cello.

d)

Holly hasn't practiced enough.

9.

To help Holly, Mary suggests that __________.

a)

she play her cello to accompany Holly.

b)

Mrs. Hanson be the accompanist.

c)

her mother accompany Holly.

d)

Holly can practice every day at her house.

10.

Who is telling the story?

a)

Mrs. Hanson

b)

Holly

c)

Kim

d)

Mary

11.

Unlike Holly, Mary feels that being in the Junior Chamber Orchestra would be ___________.

a)

boring

b)

wonderful

c)

time-consuming

d)

expensive

12.

What is more important to Holly than getting into the Junior Chamber Orchestra?

a)

raising purebred dogs

b)

going to camp

c)

being in a play

d)

practicing with friends

13.

Mary hopes that if her mother plays the piano for Holly, the Hansons will show her mother more _______.

a)

respect

b)

style

c)

authority

d)

commotion

14.

Mrs. Sylvester thinks cats are ___________.

a)

friendly animals

b)

nicer than her dog

c)

noisier than dogs

d)

stuck up

15.

"To walk across the room, you had to negotiate carefully between piles." In this story, negotiate means to _______.

a)

talk about something to get an agreement

b)

travel successfully

c)

jump from place to place

d)

look at, from a distance

16.

When Holly practices with Mrs. Yang, everyone can see that Holly _______.

a)

loves to play her viola

b)

will win a place in the orchestra

c)

doesn't have her heart in playing

d)

is thinking about dogs

17.

Mrs. Yang keeps saying that she is not really very good because ___________.

a)

she plays without feeling

b)

she makes several mistakes

c)

the piano needs tuning

d)

it is rude for a Chinese person to agree with a compliment

18.

Mary speaks up when Mrs. Hanson and Holly laugh at her family because _________.

a)

she thinks that they are making fun of her family

b)

she thinks that they should be ashamed of their laughing

c)

they are wrong about her mother's playing

d)

Holly probably makes mistakes when she is playing too.

19.

Mrs. Hanson suddenly begins to laugh and sing "Yes! We Have no bananas!" when ________.

a)

she walked into the kitchen

b)

she realized that the Yangs are really agreeing with her

c)

she always sings that song

d)

she wanted someone to get bananas

20.

Mary is ashamed because her family doesn't try harder to learn American ways. what does she learn about this attitude by the end of the story?

a)

she was right and her family is rude to others

b)

that she should try to keep her culture too

c)

that she still makes mistakes too and her mother doesn't have many opportunities to meet Americans

d)

that American ways are too difficult for her family to learn