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WorksheetsThe Seventh Most Important Thing Ch14 - 18
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
How does Arthur feel when he goes back to school?
angry as a nest of hornets
as if he were inside an invisible box
surrounded by silent shadows
like a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
Where does Vice Principal Barber take Arthur before he can go to his classes?
to the coaches offices
detention
to his new locker
the principal's office for a lecture
Why was Arthur assigned a new locker?
so that the coaches could tackle him if he did something violent
to keep him away from everybody else
to keep everyone else away from him
we don't know for sure
Check 2 of 4 choices:
What do the locker and Arthur's feelings about being back in school have in common?
They are both boxes.
They are both isolated.
They are both hollow.
They are both metallic.
What metaphor does Arthur make about his life?
Life is like moon phases, and his time in Juvie was like a new moon.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
He was like the crumpled Oh Henry! candy wrapper abandoned in the locker.
Some people are unlucky enough to live in places where the plates already have big cracks in them.
What does Arthur call the Christmas tree his father would put up?
A work of art.
A legend of light.
A feat of fancy.
A labor of love
ALLITERATION is the use of the same beginning consonant SOUND in a line or a verse. Read and check all of the following examples of alliteration.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Big Brown Bear, Blue Bull, Beautiful Baboon
Samantha soared on her sleek skateboard
She sells sea shells on the sea shore
Which of these lines is an example of ALLITERATION
As he slogged through the slushy streets to the Junk Man's neighborhood
Where there is no vision the people struggle
the door with the running address numbers
I'm turning into a zombie from boredom
What does Arthur notice about the mirror he finds?
It is hazy no matter how much you clean it
It has a long diagonal crack
It is a vanity hutch mirror
It is curved
Arthur thinks it is IRONIC that he finds a cracked mirror. Since Arthur is convinced he was born on cracked plates, this is an example of
Alliteration
Parallelism
Simile
Symbolism
Arthur decides that the Junk Man wants art when he considers...
the Junk Man kept the shiny toaster button
the Junk Man took the hat for the wings
pieces of wood could be "pieces" made of wood like furniture
the first most important thing
What does Arthur constantly worry about while he collects things?
people will think he is stealing
catching a cold from the slushy snow
touching garbage
his friends seeing him
What thoughts comfort Arthur while he digs through garbage cans?
Christmas past with is father
He is grateful he is not in juvie getting bullied
No one will recognize him with the coat and hat on
His anger helps him push through
What does Arthur's mother do that makes him angry while putting up the Christmas Tree?
make hot chocolate - he hates chocolate
she fusses about every little thing
she jokes and laughs at him covered in tinsel
she mentions the six-pack of beer his father usually polished off while putting up the tree
According the narrator, what did Arthur discover about the first most important thing (at the end of chapter 17)?
He hasn't realized it yet.
Lights make things look better
The sunbursts of light made him hopeful
Light covers dark spots and black holes
