Worksheetsfrom Brown Girl Dreaming
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Where does the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming take place?
New York City
Uncle Robert's house
Greenville, South Carolina
In the poem "another way" from Brown Girl Dreaming, what does Woodson's mother bring home?
a James Brown Record
wrapped presents
board games
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
In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, how does Uncle Robert feel about Woodson's stories?
They make him homesick
He thinks they are lies
He likes them
What makes Brown Girl Dreaming different from most other memoirs?
It is made up of poems
It has a first-perrson point of view
It tells about the author's childhood experiences
If Mia says that snowflakes are feathery, what does that mean?
The snowflakes are flying away
The snowflakes are soft and light
The snowflakes are falling rapidly
Your little brother is humming at the dinner table. Which of your senses tells you this?
sight
taste
hearing
Which of the following sentences best shows the meaning of shushes?
Grandma softly tells the children not to make any noise.
Jackson puts on his boots and wades through the mud.
Evan flattens each ball of cookie dough into a circle.
PART A: 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
PART B: Which line or lines in "brooklyn rain" from Brown Girl Dreaming MOST CLEARLY support the answer to Part A? (PART A: In the poem "brooklyn rain" from Brown Girl Dreaming, how does Woodson feel about staying indoors? )
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...
PART A: In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is Woodson always doing?
getting in trouble
making things up
trying to sneak out
PART B: Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming MOST CLEARLY supports the answer to PART A? (PART A: In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is Woodson always doing?)
...The boy says, / I was a baby. Says, She doesn't remember him/ and points to his silent sister.
But we are already awake, all four of us, smiling/ and jumping around/ my uncle: What'd you bring me?
I say, I know a girl ten times smarter than her. She gets diamonds every time she gets a hundred on a test.
In this excerpt of Brown Girl Dreaming, what does Woodson's mother believe?
Children should not speak until they are spoken to
Uncle Robert gets the children too worked up
Her daughter's stories sound like lies
From what point of view is Brown Girl Dreaming told?
first person point of view
second person point of view
third person point of view
Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming BEST illustrates, or shows the answer to PART A?
...No slip and slide through the grass
Uncle Robert has moved to New York City!
I went up a hill yesterday, I say
How can you tell that Brown Girl Dreaming is not an example of prose?
It tells a story from the author's own life
It is written in stanzas, not paragraphs
It presents a single author's thoughts
Which of these sentences contains the BEST example of onomatopoeia?
The dice clattered onto the tabletop
We slid across the floor in our socks
It's raining cats and dogs outside
Which of these words is the BEST example of onomatopoeia?
singer
leaped
screeched
