WorksheetsBrown Girl Dreaming Reading Check Part 4
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
What do Jackie and Maria do with their dinners sometimes?
They trade with each other, so they can enjoy the other mother’s good cooking.
They refuse to eat it because their moms are such bad cooks.
They have a food fight with each other.
They take some to share with homeless people in NY.
What happens when Jackie tries to write down her stories?
She is praised by her mother as being brilliant.
She struggles getting anything down on the page, and she makes holes in the page with her eraser.
They come easily to her, and her teacher tells her that she’s smarter than her older sister, Odella.
Her mother accuses her of lying again, because she feels like storytelling is nothing but lying.
What happens at the beginning of every school year for Jackie?
Jackie’s mother has to fight Jackie to go to school because she hates it so much.
Jackie excels at reading, writing, and math, just like her older sister, Odella did.
Jackie’s teacher gets excited to have another Woodson because Jackie’s sister, Odella, was so smart.
Jackie’s teacher worries about having another Woodson because Jackie’s older sister, Odella, was a troublemaker.
What does Jackie do to help her learn how to read?
She practices sounding out the words carefully one at a time.
She takes out hard books at the library with her family, so she can get used to reading harder words. She doesn’t do anything.
She gets frustrated and tells her mother that she wants to quit school.
She memorizes the words, so when she starts having trouble, memory takes over.
What talent do Jacqueline and her family discover that her brother Hope has?
Hope is a talented musician; he plays the saxophone.
Hope is a talented artist; he mostly paints in watercolors.
Hope is a talented singer.
Hope performed magic and he is considered to be a talented magician.
What special thing does Daddy tell Jacqueline?
“You will become a famous writer someday.”
“You look just like your mother. You are beautiful.”
“You are my favorite.”
“I want you to take over my garden.”
Why is Greenville so different the summer that Jacqueline and her siblings return?
Daddy is very sick; he’s so tired that he doesn’t want to eat and rarely gets out of bed.
There are new neighbors next door, which Daddy and Grandma do not get along with.
Grandma doesn’t spoil them as much as she used to when they were younger.
A distant relative has moved in and there is a lot less room in the house now.
Who calls from Riker’s Island?
Jackie’s mother
Jackie’s Uncle Robert
Jackie’s Grandmother
Maria
When does Jackie have that moment where she finally thinks she’s going to be a writer?
When she publishes her first book.
When she spray paints her tag on a wall.
When she writes down the lyrics to her Mountain Song.
She feels like she’ll never be a writer.
Why does Jackie return to Greenville, South Carolina?
Her grandfather is dying.
Her mother sends her there for a vacation.
Her grandparents need help with their garden.
Her family is moving back to Greenville.
