WorksheetsPeople of Sparks 25 - 27
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 34mins
As Lina, Maddy and the roamer Pelton come nearer to Sparks, Lina can hardly sleep with excitement. She expected to see everything as it was when she left.What scene greeted her?
People at the river washing
People eating breakfast
People crying, wailing, arguing in confusion
People getting ready for work
How long was Lina away?
Five days
One week
Two weeks
One month
Lina looked for Doon as she arrived at the hotel. When he spoke, he sounded angry. Why might he have been angry?. Choose all that apply.
He was worried about her
He was afraid she was dead
He may have wanted to go with her
He was too busy with Tick
The author writes “A wild confusion filled her mind”. What is the author trying to convey by using this sentence?
Lina’s reaction to how Doon was behaving towards her
Lina’s reaction to seeing the people crying
Lina’s reaction to Doon telling her they had been ordered to leave
Lina’s reaction to how busy Doon had been with Tick
Lina had found a number of things from her time as a roamer. What did she give to Doon as presents?
Monopoly game
A magnet
A truck
Magnifying glass
What was the “frightening picture” that rose in Lina’s mind?
The weapon
Winter
The people of Ember scattered like fallen birds across a vast, dry landscape
The hateful words written about them
Doon had told Lina all that had happened while she was away. Lina explained why she had gone in search of the city, she had to tell him what she had seen. How did she describe it?
A vast dry landscape
Fields and fields of brown grass
Empty lands, with howling animals and bandits
All of them
Lina said, “people had a beautiful city, and they wrecked it”. How did the people destroy it?
With flames
With wars, with fighting
By being greedy
By not caring
Just as Maddy had explained it in Chapter 20, Lina now tries to explain how to stop wars. What does she suggest? There is more than one answer.
Do a good thing, that turns it around
You hurt me, I’ll hurt you back
Reverse the direction
Be strong
As Doon and Lina try to figure how to do something good for the people who did so many bad things to them. What are some of the things Doon suggests. Choose all that apply.
Work without food Go quietly out into the Empty lands Be nice no matter what they do Fight
Work without food
Go quietly out into the Empty lands
Be nice no matter what they do
Fight
What are some things Lina suggests?
Sit down and refuse to move, try to talk to work it out
Volunteer to be roamers
Do all the worst jobs
All of them
Lina didn't want to fight, and she didn’t want to leave. The author refers to this as “against two walls”. What part of speech is this?
A comparison A simile Repetition Metaphor
Metaphor
A comparison
simile
Repetition
What was the main reason Ben gave for why the Emberites must leave?
They are eating all the food
They are destroying their way of life
They cannot work hard enough es
They damaged the tomatoes
What was Tick trying to do as he roamed through the crowd of distressed and confused people on the morning they were due to leave?
Organize them for the travel
Urge them to fight for their rights
Divide them into groups
Reassure them that it would all be ok
The author uses phrases to show us (not tell us) of the mood, demeanor that Tick was in that morning. Which one or ones do this best? There is more than one.
He “roamed among them”
His “eyes flashed with a cold light”
He was “urging courage”
His voice had the “urgent tone of a bell”
What caused Doon to feel “a jolt of fury”?
He felt things were on the edge of chaos The yelling and waving of weapons was frightening Ben refused to talk and listen to their demands Tick was angry
He felt things were on the edge of chaos
The yelling and waving of weapons was frightening
Ben refused to talk and listen to their demands
Tick was angry
What weapon did Tick hit Ben with?
A rock
A branch
A shard of glass
A rod
Why did Doon feel that being in the tower room was “perfect”? Choose all that apply.
He was up high
He could see and hear everything
He wouldn’t have to decide to fight or not
He was behind the leaders
“Clouds came over the sun”, the “branches thrashed”, the “flag whipped and snapped”. What sense is the author trying to get us to feel by using these phases?
Confusion
Increasing tension and anger
Sadness
Darkness
“The air seemed to quiver with rage”. What part of speech is the author using to convey the atmosphere here?
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Ben brings out the weapon. The author uses a number of similes to describe it. Choose all.
A thing of black metal that ran on wheels
Like a great black insect
Iron body nearly as long as a truck
Like the skeleton of a monster
What first saved the machine from firing directly into the crowd?
Ben could not start it Its snout turned back and forth Mary kicked it, bumping it upward Nothing happened when Ben jerked at it
Ben could not start
Its snout turned back and forth
Mary kicked it, bumping it upward
Nothing happened when Ben jerked at it
The weapon exploded, shooting fire straight up towards the pine tree. Why was this so significant at this point in the story
The tree would be destroyed e tower would catch fire from it, and Doon was in the tower
Torren was in the tree
The branches would fall on the people
The tower would catch fire from it, and Doon was in the tower
How did Doon save Torren?
Climbed out onto the branches
Threw him a rope
Told him to jump onto a chair he held out the window
As the pine tree caught fire and spread, why were the Emberites “too frightened to make a sound”?
They were afraid of the people of Sparks
The crowds of people was crushing
Fire was a rare and terrible danger for them
There was too much shouting and screaming
Personification is when an author gives a human characteristic or attribute to something non human. Which of the following phrases uses this part of speech? There is more than one answer.
The flames grew bigger
The flames terrible orange hands
The trees’s black skeleton
The blackened walls leaned and toppled
In Chapter 27, we see the events unfold from where Lina is. Which sentences give us a sense of how different her positioning is to Doon, alone in the tower? There is more than one answer.
She heard a chain of loud pops
The crowd was so dense and turbulent she couldn’t get through
Some of them screamed
Then she was surrounded again by struggling people
Why were the people of Sparks running in all directions?
They were running away from the fire
They were running away from the Emberites
They were finding and filling buckets with water to put out the fire
They were going home
Pick the sentences below that tell us Tick’s thinking of the fire burning the town hall
Let it burn
They deserve it
It’s their punishment
All of them
Whose voices does the author alternate using to tell us the story in this book?
Tick and Lizzie
Doon’s father and Ed Pocket
Doon and Lina
Ben and Mary
Which sentence best gives us a sense of the turmoil in Lina’s head?
Lina’s heart was beating so hard, it drowned out all her thoughts
She felt gripped by two huge hands, one pulled her backward, the other pulled her forward
An idea was trying to come to her mind
She wanted to run
What was the conflict Lina was facing?
She wanted to run, but she was paralyzed
She suddenly realized the “good thing” she had to do, but she didn’t want to do it
She couldn’t see either Doon or Mrs Murdo
Her legs wouldn't work even though her mind screamed “Run, Run!
The people of Sparks formed a “fire line” to put out the fire. What problems did they face trying to do this?. There may be more than one.
The fire was spreading so rapidly
It was windy
Most of the fire was above their heads and hard to reach with the buckets of water
Tick and some others were shouting “let it burn”
How did the people of Ember react to first seeing Lina, then Doon run to help the people of Sparks put out the fire
They called her a traitor They stood around frozen, unable to move They followed their example and “added themselves to the bucket brigade” The clustered at the far end of the plaza
They called her a traitor
They stood around frozen, unable to move
They followed their example and “added themselves to the bucket brigade”
The clustered at the far end of the plaza
