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WorksheetsHouse Taken Over Study Guide
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 54mins
Which mood is established throughout the entire story (and not just in the beginning?)
Creepy
Restless
Hateful
Intense emotions
What are some activities Irene & the narrator participate in? On the side of your study guide, mark the two that happen more often than the other.
Shopping the book store
Cleaning & cooking
Farming
Reading
Knitting
What is the reaction of the siblings when "they" take over the back section of the house with the library?
They do nothing.
They put the house up for sale and move. (Please!)
They lock the doors to that area & "move" into a different part of the house.
They panic and devise a plan to fight back.
What are two ideas that show, despite their nonchalant approach to the situation, that they are truly terrified of what's happening around them as it progresses?
They hole up in their rooms and never leave.
They both clean obsessively.
Brother & sister be pitchin' fits in their sleep.
They purposely do mindless, distracting activities & make lots of noise.
Define spacious.
Teeny tiny little bitty.
Huge; plenty of space.
A type of sauce for spaghetti.
Relating to planets.
Define muffled.
Runs out the back of a car.
Projecting over a microphone.
A type of baked good.
Muted. Less clearly heard.
Define obscure.
Uncertain
Black & dark
Easily definable
A solution to a sickness
What's the money status of the siblings?
They have it. They inherited it through harvesting fields.
They don't have it. Their parents were poor.
They have it. They made it themselves by their own business venture.
They don't have it. They inherited it but spent it all.
Describe the general demeanor of both siblings throughout the story.
Uncaring & indifferent.
Freaked out.
Calm and chill.
Joyful to see their family.
What's a main idea of this story?
Be nice to others or else you'll suffer the consequences of being a disconnected miser to those around you.
Let your fear feed you until you are overtaken and overrun by it.
People with lots of money live in houses they cannot control.
Overcome your fear, (the consequences of inaction), or lose everything about you that's important.
What are the two main elements of Magical Realism?
Everything is mostly false and no deeper lessons are taught.
Everything is supernatural & magic, and when realistic elements are present, they become supernatural.
Everything is realistic (responses, setting, etc), and when magical/unrealistic elements are present, they become normal/logical.
All the characters are predictable, and there are no supernatural elements within the story.
What's the priority in the tone of Magical Realism: Matter-of-fact calmness or tension?
Matter-of-fact calmness
Tension
What's the most normal, realistic thing in the answer choices?
Resistance of "them"
Their routines & hobbies
Over-analysis by the siblings of the intruders
Blocking off half your house to avoid ghosts
What does the suffix -less mean?
"Without" or "lacking"
"With" or "to have"
"Personal"
"Suffering"
What happens when you put the prefix 'dis' in front of a word?
It becomes a synonym/positive.
It becomes an opposite/negative.
Which phrase is a prepositional phrase?
at the fountain
set the table
Jessica ran
bring me tape
Read the sentence. Tell if the prepositional phrase is modifying an action or a noun.
The woodpecker knocked forcefully on the tree.
Noun
Action
What is the object of the preposition in this sentence?
She walked by the church and felt convicted.
felt
church
walked
by
