WorksheetsLanguage Arts Review
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 35mins
In the book Refugee, what is Mahmoud's father's name?
Asad
Hasan
Youssef
Nadeem
In the chapter of Refugee titled Mahmoud: Aleppo, Syria-2015, Mahmoud's home is hit with a bomb. "Mahmoud stared up at their building. The whole front had collapsed, and Mahmoud felt like he was looking into a giant dollhouse." What type of figurative language did the author Alan Gratz use in the writing?
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Which character in Refugee to you identify with the most?
Josef
Isabel
Mahmoud
Waleed
What did Mrs. Faldmo attempt to draw on the board to help you understand what TONE means in writing?
(a)
Refugee is told from which point of view?
1st person alternating between chapters
2nd person
3rd person alternating between chapters
1st, 2nd and 3rd person
Who DID NOT attend Josef's bar mitzvah?
His mother
His father
Ruthie
Other Jewish passengers
How did Mahmoud find the refugees walking to Turkey?
They used a map the soldier had given them.
Other refugees along the way told them where to go.
Mahmoud's friend had told them the way they planned to go.
His dad used Google Maps
In Cuba, housing, supplies and food were all in short supply. All of the quotes below demonstrate how hungry people were EXCEPT:
People had even broken into the Havana Zoo and eaten the animals...
The cat was hungry, just like everyone else in Cuba, and its belly quickly won over its fear.
The kitten wasn't too different from her, Isabel realized: thin, hungry and in need of a bath.
She was barefoot like always, and wore a tank top and shorts.
What risky choice did Josef make on the train?
Took off his Star of David armband
Yelled at a Nazi soldier
Wrote a disparaging letter about the Nazi's
Stole candy at the train store
“Look! I found a bit of a dead fish on the beach for the cat.” Isabel recoiled at the smell, but the kitten came running back, eating greedily from Ivan’s hand” (page 9).
The word recoiled means?
Isabel liked the smell
Isabel flinched back in disgust with the smell
Isabel felt hungry with the smell
Isabel was curious about the smell
Why does Mahmoud's family leave behind their car before they get to Turkey?
The streets are too chaotic and dangerous to drive
Their car is taken by soldiers
They run out of gas
Their car is destroyed during a gunfight between the rebels and the Syrian army.
What did Ivan's family used as the material for the bottom of the boat? (The family finds this kind of funny)
A door from the Castillo's home
Empty oil barrels with Russian words on them
A street sign painted with Fidel Castro's face
Old tires from the junk yard.
What does the smuggler promise to do for Mahmoud's family?
He promises to get them to Greece by boat.
He promises to get them to Germany by car
He promises to hide them in a truck transporting food and supplies out of Turkey.
He promises to get the papers they need so they can cross through the border checkpoints.
Who is the author of Refugee?
Jason Reynolds
Alan Gratz
Dan Gutman
Mike Lupica
This word represents the night that Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues were destroyed and 10,000+ Jewish men were arrested and sent to a concentration camp.
Kristallnacht
Yom Kippur
Bar Mitzvah
Shabbat
Gratz uses plentiful figurative language in his writing. "Heart in his throat..." (21) is an example of which type of figurative language?
simile
metaphor
Onomatopoeia
allusion
What does the word dissident in the book Refugee mean?
To be rebuked or reprimanded severely
A person who has the impression that something pleasant is going to happen
A person who opposes an official policy, especially that of an authoritarian government
A person who is unorganized in their opinions.
What does the word berating mean?
Criticizing or scolding angrily
Acting wild and noisy
Acting shyly
Lazily
What does the word ominous mean?
Extremely delicate
Out of reach
Impossible
Giving the impression that something unpleasant is going to happen
What is Mahmoud's brother's name?
Ivan
Khalid
Josef
Waleed
What does the "mood" of a narrative mean
The author's attitude toward the subject
How the author makes the reader feel?
The characters feeling for others
The place in the narrative where the story reaches its climax.
The TONE of a narrative can be described in which way?
How the reader feels about the narrative
A musical or vocal sound in the narrative
The way your mother sounds when she is mad at you.
The author's attitude about their subject, characters or information in their writing.
In a narrative, what is the point of view?
It shows the setting of your narrative.
It is only demonstrated during the climax of the narrative.
Identifies who is telling the story
It shows the ending of the story.
What is the Narrative exposition?
This is the challenge or problem that drives the story line of the narrative.
This is the moral or idea that the writer expresses through the narrative.
This is the author's voice
The background information within the narrative that helps the reader understand a character's backstory, historical context, plot events, etc.
Plot refers to the events that happen in a story, and can be further divided in the sub-elements of:
Introduction, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action and resolution
Introduction, climax, and resolution
Introduction, setting, falling action, and resolution
Introduction, theme, climax, falling action and resolution.
Which words are considered the coordinating conjunctions?
from and no but over yes some
for and nor but or yet so
for and no between on yet still
find apples not bitten outside yesterday sunshine
Write any of the correlating conjunctions pairs we have worked on in class. Just type the words without capitalizing them. Use only ONE space between them. For example: as as DO NOT USE THIS AS AN ANSWER
(a)
A prepositional phrase can NEVER include which part of speech?
noun
adjective
verb
conjunction
Which sentence correctly uses a correlating conjunction,
Nancy didn't want to go to neither Florida or Hawaii.
Nancy wanted to go to Florida and Hawaii
Nancy wanted to go to Florida or Hawaii
Nancy wanted not only a beach vacation but also lots of sun.
Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence below:
Senor Castillo stared out over his wife's head, his eyes vacant.
stared out
over
over his wife's head
his eyes vacant
Which is a list of common prepositions?
desk,chair,table,seat
and nor yet sometime
Honda,Toyota,Nissan, Lexus
against, beside, In, over
Which of the following is NOT a prepositional phrase?
in the journal
how are you
at the table
on the floor
True or false: A prepositional phrase will never contain the subject of a sentence.
True
False
Identify the prepositional phrase:
The pencil that fell off the desk was yellow.
that fell
was yellow
fell off the desk
off the desk
Identify the prepositional phrase:
The clock in my grandma's house was broken last week.
broken last week
in my grandma's house
grandma's house was
house was broken
Why does Mrs. Faldmo have everything three hole punched?
She believes in the power of three
She dreams using all the punched holes as confetti for another wedding.
She likes to look through the small holes in her spare time.
She wants her students to keep things organized in their Language Arts three ring binder.
The polished narrative will be worth what percent of your Language Arts grade?
10%
40%
50%
25%
The words from our current spelling list are from...
The newspaper
Refugee
The 7th Grade Standardized Spelling List
Mrs. Faldmo's Google Search
Which word is NOT one of this week's spelling words?
triage
leviathan
pathetic
retched
Which answer shows the correct spelling of the word?
prominad
promunade
promenade
promenaade
Which answer shows the correct spelling of the word?
dinghy
deengy
dinghie
dinggy
Which answer shows the correct spelling of the word?
adrenyline
adriniline
adranalene
adrenaline
Which answer shows the correct spelling of the word?
slugeshlee
sluggishly
slaggashly
slugishly
Which answer shows the correct spelling of the word?
paralyzing
parallyzing
parilyzing
paralizing
What is the name of the cutest baby in the world? Only Cooper B can choose differently:)
Rondo
Jokic
Herbert
Oliver
