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WorksheetsUncle Marcos
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
In “Uncle Marcos,” how do the adult family members feel about Marcos’s visits?
They are delighted to hear the music he plays.
They are angry with him for staying away for so long.
They are bothered by his mess and his strange behavior.
They are bored by his long stories and are eager for him to leave.
In “Uncle Marcos,” how does Antonieta respond to Marcos’s unusual courtship?
She is displeased by his organ music and marries someone else.
She is amused by his organ music until the townspeople mock him.
She thinks that his organ music is charming but refuses him anyway.
She embarrasses him by laughing at his organ music in front of her friends.
In “Uncle Marcos,” what event leads the family to have a funeral for Marcos after his flight?
Clara reports that she sees his plane crash in the distance.
The searchers return home with what they say is his coffin.
The newspapers print that he died when his plane crashed.
Volunteers tell his family that they were unable to find his body.
In “Uncle Marcos,” why are Marcos and Clara successful in their fortune-telling business? Choose two options.
They can see into the future.
They enjoy manipulating people.
They want to make a lot of money.
They are able to appear convincing.
They guess what people want to hear.
In “Uncle Marcos,” what happens to Marcos at the end of the story?
His body is dropped off by the ship's captain, who killed him in a fight.
He dies in Africa of a mysterious illness and is sent home to his family in a coffin.
His body is returned to his sister's house after he dies on a ship from an African plague.
He catches a strange illness from another passenger on a ship and arrives home in a coffin.
If Robin is an invincible diver, then which of the following must be true? Base your answer on the meaning of invincible.
She invents new ways to dive.
She argues with her teammates.
She gets very hungry after she dives.
She never loses diving competitions.
Which of these situations is an example of trying to decipher something?
trying to put together a difficult jigsaw puzzle
trying to find an old book that is no longer in print
trying to write a thank-you letter for a gift you do not like
trying to figure out what a note in messy handwriting says
What is the meaning of ingenuity?
goodness
cleverness
foolishness
stubbornness
Which sentence best describes the crowd in “Uncle Marcos” before Marcos’s flight?
They are easily fooled and believe he is a technical genius.
They are bored with him and impatient to see what will happen.
They are mean-spirited and plan to make fun of him when he fails.
They are doubtful at first but become curious to see what happens.
Part A In “Uncle Marcos,” why do Clara and Uncle Marcos most likely get along so well?
Clara is the only child who is unafraid of Uncle Marcos.
They share a good imagination and a love for telling tales.
They both want to become pilots and are interested in planes.
Uncle Marcos has promised to give all his travel mementos to Clara.
Part B Which passage from “Uncle Marcos” best supports the answer to Part A?
He sold his organ to a blind man and left the parrot to Clara....
After three days the initial euphoria that had accompanied the first airplane flight in the country died down and no one gave the episode another thought, except for Clara, who continued to peer at the horizon.
The entire family wept as befit the occasion, except for Clara, who continued to watch the sky with the patience of an astronomer.
... Clara was the one with the greatest interest in and stamina for her uncle's stories. She could repeat each and every one of them.
