WorksheetsLost and Found (Bluford High Series) Chapters 1- 5
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 15mins
In the following excerpt, what does the word sullen mean?
"In the morning, Jamee ate her breakfast in sullen silence."
hungry
crying
bad tempered
relieved
"What's that supposed to mean? . . .Just' cause I been left back in school you think I'm gonna be ignorant all my life?"
The words above were said by:
Hakeem Randall
Cooper Hodden
Jamee Wills
Tarah Carson
What's the main idea of the excerpt:
"Darcy dreaded the long bus trip home. By car, the trip took about twenty-five minutes. But by the time she changed buses, the trip home would take an hour and a half."
Darcy dreads the long bus ride.
the trip by car takes less than half an hour.
the trip involves changing buses.
What can you conclude from the following except?
"In the morning, Jamee ate her breakfast in sullen silence. Mom was still sleeping."
Mom prepared the breakfast.
Jamee usually doesn't eat breakfast at all.
Jamee is still angry and upset.
What can you can conclude the following excerpt:
"Darcy scrambled into the bus and slid her dollar bills into the fare box. . . The driver gave her a transfer pass that almost fell from her shaking hands."
the bus driver is rude.
Darcy is very upset by the unpleasant trip to the tidal pool and the menacing stranger.
Darcy has suddenly realized that she doesn't have enough money for her fare.
Darcy _____ after overhearing a conversation in the library.
asked Jamee if she was stealing CDs
asked her grandmother's advice
decided not to return home
told the principal what she had heard
How did Darcy react to finding out the man in the Toyota was her father?
She wanted him to give her and Jamee some money.
She could not tell her mother about it without upsetting her.
She was glad he wanted to be a part of her life.
She just wanted him to go away and leave them alone.
Darcy was upset about the science project because she
could not work with Tarah's brother, her new crush.
did not think her partner, Tarah, would do much work.
wanted to work with a friend instead of a stranger.
did not think she had enough time to finish working on it.
Darcy saw a man in a Toyota watching her
on her way home from school one evening.
while she waited with Jamee for her school bus.
when she was walking in the Laguna Mountains.
while she waited for the bus near the tidal pool.
Darcy tried to look after her younger sister Jamee because
their mother was taking classes at night.
their mother worked two jobs and was too tired to look after them.
working in the emergency room kept their mother tired.
Darcy helped Jamee in math, a subject their mother did not like
How does Darcy feel about Hakeem Randall?
She has a crush on him.
She hates him.
He said she looked like a broom, so...not good.
She thinks he's smart and wishes he were her partner.
How did Darcy react to finding out the man in the Toyota was her father?
She wanted him to give her and Jamee some money
She could not tell her mother about it without upsetting her.
She was glad he wanted to be a part of her life.
She just wanted him to go away and leave them alone.
When Jamee came home with a swollen eye and scratched face, she said that
she was practicing boxing after school.
she and another girl had fought over Bobby.
Bobby and his friends had punched her out.
she had fallen in cheerleading practice.
What happened to Jamee's face?
She got into a fight with her sister
Her boyfriend beat her up
She fell at school
She had an accident during cheerleading practice
"In the morning, Jamee ate her breakfast in sullen silence. Mom was still sleeping."
You can conclude from the following excerpt that:
Mom prepared the breakfast.
Jamee usually doesn't eat breakfast at all.
Jamee is still angry and upset.
Jamee can't wait until mom wakes up.
In the following excerpt, what does the word testy mean?
[Darcy said,] "I didn't know you drew stuff."
"I do lots of things you don't know about," Tarah said in a testy voice.
irritated
sad
amused
frightened
