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WorksheetsSnow: Julia Alvarez
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 50mins
In the opening sentence, to whom is the narrator referring when she says “Our”?
herself and her classmates
herself and her teacher
herself and her family
herself and the Sisters of Charity
According to the passage, this scene takes place when Yolanda is in what grade?
kindergarten
1st
4th
6th
In paragraphs 1 and 2, words in italics are
new words Yolanda was trying to learn in English
words in a song Yolanda was singing
words in the rosary
words Yolanda’s mother couldn’t pronounce
During an air-raid drill, Yolanda and her classmates imagined:
that the school burned down
they got a snow day
their hair falling out
saying the rosary
Which of the following happened last?
Sister Zoe explained that Russian missiles were aimed at New York City
President Kennedy explained that the U.S. might have to go to war with the Communists
Yolanda and her family prayed for world peace
there were air-raid drills at school
Which word is the closest in meaning to “ominous”:
threatening
disruptive
melodic
enormous
What causes Yolanda to scream suddenly?
seeing what she thought was radioactive fallout
touching bits and pieces of a mushroom
hearing a nuclear bomb
seeing a flurry of chalk-marks
Yolanda most likely came from a country:
where the kids did not go to school
where there had been a nuclear war
where the climate was tropical
where it sometimes snowed
At the end of the passage, Sister Zoe describes snowflakes for Yolanda. What was she saying about Yolanda and snowflakes?
that Yolanda needed to get used to the idea of living in America
that Yolanda is also beautiful and irreplaceable
that Yolanda is melodramatic
that Yolanda is a very funny student
What is the author’s main purpose in writing this passage?
to help the reader see life from someone else’s perspective
to caution the reader about the dangers of nuclear war
to portray life in the Catholic schools of New York City
to show the reader how hard it is to learn another language
