Font size
WorksheetsThe Goose´s Gold - chapter 1/5
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 25mins
Summary
When Ruth Rose and her friends, vacationing in Florida, discover that her grandmother is about to invest in a project to recover sunken treasure, they stumble upon evidence that the entire plan may be a (a) .
Mark the characters that appear throughout chapters 1 to 5.
Tiger
Spike and Chip
Ruth Rose, Dink, and Josh
Mel Fisher
Gram Hathaway
Choose the settings throughout chapters 1 to 5.
A Florida airport on the way to Key West
Green Lawn
Josh’s grandmother’s house
Mel Fisher’s Treasure Museum
On a trolley
Choose the type of figurative language used in the following excerpt:
Donald David Duncan, known as Dink to his friends…
hyperbole
alliteration
simile
onomatopoeia
Choose the correct weather for Green Lawn, Connecticut (children’s hometown).
It is 80 degrees and sunny.
There is a foot of snow on the ground.
Choose the correct weather for Florida.
There is a foot of snow on the ground.
It is 80 degrees and sunny.
What is the meaning of “…then we take the dough and split.”?
take the money and divide it
bake the dough for the cake and cut it
give me the cash in your pocket
divide the cookies
Who were Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose visiting in Florida?
Dink’s grandmother
Josh’s grandmother
Ruth Rose’s grandmother
They are on a school trip.
Dink saw a tattoo on the man in the next phone booth. Describe it.
(a)
Why did Josh snap his finger in front of Dink´s face, and said, “Earth to Dink”?
Dink was thinking about his mom´s words about his manners.
Dink was thinking about his pet at home.
Dink was thinking about the man´s words he overheard in the next booth.
Dink was listening to music.
Gram Hathaway shook hands with the boys. “I’ve heard a lot about you two,” she said. “Got your bags? Let’s go home and have a nice supper.” What time of the day is it?
morning
afternoon
evening
night
In chapter 2, who is Gram baking cookies for?
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose
a surprise company to the kids
her friends from the senior center
Spike and Chip
What will Josh do if he could have a sailboat?
(a)
What would Dink do if Josh owns a sailboat and makes Dink wash Josh´s clothes and make Josh´s bed?
(a)
What did Chip mean when he said, “Just bein’ neighborly”?
(a)
How do people call the small orange train that loads up with passengers?
(a)
What do you find at the Mel Fisher´s Treasure Museum?
Spanish gold and silver
some of what Mel Fisher found in an old Spanish ship
an old Spanish ship loaded with gold and silver
Mel Fisher in person
What long did it take for Mel Fisher to find the treasure?
(a)
Why did Spike and Chip go to Ruth Rose’s grandmother’s senior center?
They were hoping to sell the new gold pieces they found.
They were looking for investors.
They enjoy helping senior citizens.
They will donate their treasure.
How much money is Ruth Rose’s grandmother thinking about investing in Spike and Chip?
$100,000
$10,000
$1,000
$ 100
What did Gram give the kids as a Christmas present?
(a)
What did Spike and Chip say about how they got the gold and the silver pieces so clean?
They rubbed them with a piece of fabric.
First, they soak the pieces, then they rub them with regular old vinegar.
They washed them with soap and water.
They are always like that!
It took Mel Fisher twenty years to find his sunken ship, how did Spike and Chip explain they found their sunken treasure so quickly?
(a)
Dink knew he had overheard the words. “… those cookies are loaded” before. Where did Dink hear those words?
(a)
