Worksheetsfrom Brown Girl Dreaming
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 16mins
In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is the main thing that readers learn about Odella, Woodson's older sister?
Odella is bossy.
Odella is smart.
Odella tells lies.
Odella runs wild.
In the poem "brooklyn rain" from Brown Girl Dreaming, how does Woodson feel about staying indoors?
Staying indoors bores her.
She is scared of the outdoors.
Staying indoors makes her feel safe.
She has more fun indoors than outdoors.
Which line or lines in "brooklyn rain" from Brown Girl Dreaming most clearly support the statement "staying indoors bores her"?
The rain here is different than the way / it rains in Greenville.
Just Mama saying, Stay inside today, it's raining...
...Nothing to do but / watch / the gray sidewalk grow darker...
Down south already feels like a long time ago...
In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is the main thing that readers learn about Odella, Woodson's older sister?
Odella is bossy.
Odella is smart.
Odella tells lies.
Odella runs wild.
Which of these sentences contains the best example of onomatopoeia?
The dice clattered onto the tabletop.
We slid across the floor in our socks.
Here is a book of nursery rhymes.
It's raining cats and dogs outside.
How can we tell that Woodson (the writer) is telling us something important in her writing?
She repeats it
She makes it rhyme
She separates it from the other lines
She puts parentheses ( ) around it
a writer tells a true story from a specific period in his or her own life
mood
genre
point of view
memoir
Q1. The poems reveal that as a child the author struggled with . . .
adding and subtracting
reading and writing
writing
counting money
In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is the main thing that readers learn about Odella, Woodson's older sister?
Odella is bossy.
Odella is smart.
Odella tells lies.
Odella runs wild.
How would you describe Uncle Robert's character?
Fun-loving and supportive
Distant and lonely
Strict and hard-hearted
Gloomy and depressing
Which line shows that Woodson's mother does not approve of her stories?
You can run and play with your friends anytime
I want you to find another way to play
He hands my mother a record, a small 45-James Brown
If you lie, she says, one day you'll steal!
Which line shows that Woodson makes up stories all the time?
We all try to slide across the floor like he does.
But you're not allowed to go to the park without any one
If you catch a dandelion puff, you can make a wish
I know a girl 10x's smarter than her. She gets diamonds...
