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The Watsons Go to Birmingham Ch 1-2 & Figurative Language

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the setting of the novel?

a)

Birmingham, 1963

b)

Flint, 1964

c)

Birmingham, 1964

d)

Flint, 1936

2.

The event in which 4 little girls died?

a)

The Sixteen Chapel Bombing

b)

The Washington March

c)

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

3.

One of the maximum political activist of the 1960s was...

a)

Martin Luther

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Jim Crow

4.

Which president signed the emancipation proclamation stating that all men should be treated equally.

a)

JFK

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

George Washington

5.

The Children´s Crusade in 1960s or March of Students took place in...

a)

Washington DC

b)

Birmingham

c)

Flint

d)

South Carolina

6.

Who is the main character in the novel?

a)

Joetta Watson

b)

Daniel Watson

c)

Kenny Watson

d)

Byron Watson

7.

Where do the Watsons live?

a)

Flint

b)

Birmingham

c)

Topeka

d)

New York

8.

Why did Byron´s lip get stuck to the mirror?

a)

He licked the mirror.

b)

Kenny pushed him towards the mirror.

c)

He kissed his reflection.

9.

Why did papa say that they were not that friendly in Birmingham?

a)

Birmingham was always on the news.

b)

They had many gangs.

c)

They did not say hello

d)

They had "colored bathrooms"

10.

Who is the school bully?

a)

Kenny Watson

b)

Larry Dunn

c)

Langston Hughes

d)

Pointdexter

11.

Why is mama upset?

a)

She was freezing.

b)

She had a fever.

c)

She hated Daniel.

d)

She did not like children.

12.

hung frozen in the air like a hunk of smoke..

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

analogy

13.

blink a thousand times

a)

hyperbole

b)

simile

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

pun

14.

fought dirty

a)

hyperbole

b)

analogy

c)

idiom

d)

pun

15.

The cable was a snake in the grass.

a)

Metaphor

b)

simile

c)

onomatopoiea

d)

idiom

16.

hammer : nail :: comb :

a)

hair

b)

brush

c)

head

d)

hard

17.

One hundred hares have escaped the zoo, so police are combing the area.

a)

idiom

b)

analogy

c)

pun

18.

Why does Larry bother Kenny less than other kids?

a)

His brother Byron protects him.

b)

His brother Buphead protects him.

c)

Kenny is older and stronger.

d)

Kenny is a bully.

19.

How is Byron´s lip released?

a)

With warm water.

b)

His mom pulls him off.

c)

His lip was stuck to the mirror forever.

d)

His lip was surgically removed by a doctor.

20.

Which description best fits the two new boys that came on the bus?

a)

rich

b)

poor

c)

middle class