WorksheetsFull Cicada Moon, Pages 1-32
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 6mins
Mimi's dad drives her to school and walks back home with her. Do you think there is a reason for this?
Mimi's dad is overprotective.
She asks him to walk home with her.
Her dad is worried that someone will hurt her for her ethnicity.
The college campus is so packed that Mimi's dad wants an excuse to get away from it.
Where does Mimi's dad work?
At the school she goes to.
At the post office.
At the college.
In the factory.
Why does the woman on the bus deny it when Mimi says she's not adopted?
The woman was the adoption officer in her case.
Her mother is Japanese and she is Black.
Her father is Black and she is Japanese.
The woman is her birth mother.
Which type of figurative language is not used in these pages?
Onomatopoeia.
Simile.
Metaphor.
Oxymoron.
Why does Mimi whisper "Drip, drip drip." to her father?
Because he's going to school (to work) as well that day, and they persist like water on granite until it cracks.
Because she knows the water pipe at her father's work is leaking.
Because she hopes that the iceberg of coldness and distance that has been between them lately will thaw out.
Because the snow is melting and that makes her sad.
What moon phase is used as a chapter title?
Waning Gibbous.
Waxing Gibbous.
Waning Crescent.
Waxing Crescent.
The phrase "These are my frozen eyelashes and my Popsicle nose" is a(n)
Onomatopoeia.
Simile.
Metaphor.
Oxymoron.
What does the description "tangerine and fluffy" refer to?
Her blanket.
A dog she saw in the neighbor's yard.
Her orange sweater.
Her pet flamingo.
What does Mimi want to be when she grow up?
A poet.
A writer.
An astronaut.
A teacher.
What is Mimi's hatsuyume, her first dream of the year?
That her father is dead.
That she is a salmon, trying to fight her way up a waterfall.
That a bear is chasing her into the night.
That she is a bird, soaring across open skies.
When they are on the bus to meet Mimi's father, what memorable date is taking place?
New Years.
Christmas.
In Japanese, what sounds just like speak
Among friends.
Lie.
Uncover.
Let go.
Who lives next door to Mimi?
A dog named Pattress.
The principle.
A boy.
A man that smokes a pipe.
Why does Mimi struggle with the "ethnicity" part of the form?
Her parents don't want her to be the ethnicity she wants to be.
She has always done silly things, and checked off the wrong boxes.
Her mother is Black and her father is Korean.
Her mother is Japanese and her father is Black.
Do you think the class laughing at Mimi when she said she wanted to be an astronaut was racist?
Yes.
No.
