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Wishtree Ch.1-10

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A good title for Chapters 1-5 could be _______.

a)

The Differences Between Crows and Trees

b)

Getting to Know the Wishtree

c)

Mother Nature

d)

Introverts and Extroverts

2.

What can be inferred about the Wishtree?

a)

It wants to change its name.

b)

It can't really make wishes come true.

c)

It has many friends.

d)

It only talks to animals.

3.

It's a miracle the fire department doesn't try to hose me down every autumn.

This passage contains ____.

a)

a pun

b)

an idiom

c)

a hyperbole

d)

personification

4.

What did the hyperbole mean?

It's a miracle the fire department doesn't try to hose me down every autumn.

a)

The wishtree, Red, catches on fire every fall.

b)

Red's color is especially bright in the autumn, the color of fire.

c)

Red's branches are so full of red wishes, she looks like she is on fire.

d)

The fire department hoses her down so she won't catch on fire.

5.

Which genre is Wishtree? Check all that apply.

a)

fiction

b)

drama

c)

fantasy

d)

realistic fiction

e)

poetry

6.

Chapters 1-5 of Wishtree are told from which point of view?

a)

1st person through the animals' perspective.

b)

1st person through the tree's perspective.

c)

3rd person through an outside narrator

d)

3rd person through the tree's perspective

7.

Match each cause with its effect.

a)

crows are fond of mimicking sounds

1.

One crow was named Grouchy Cab Driver.

b)

Red looks like a trash heap.

2.

It is May.

c)

The band practices in the garage.

3.

Bongo sits on the roof.

8.

Crows and trees are different in all of the following ways EXCEPT ...

a)

Crows choose their names and trees are named by their type.

b)

Crows are either male or female and trees can sometimes be both.

c)

Crows are mobile and trees are planted in one location.

d)

Crows are optimistic and trees are pessimistic.

9.

The conflict in this story is mostly the result of which event?

a)

Samar just moved to the neighborhood in January.

b)

Bongo kept gifts because she said you never knew when you might need a bribe.

c)

Red was home to an owl, baby opossums, and tiny raccoons.

d)

Fly talked to the mailman.

10.

Which question does Chapters 6-10 NOT answer?

a)

Why did the frog break the rule and talk to a human?

b)

How do the animals use the hollows in trees?

c)

Why do the animals feel a connection to Samar?

d)

Why is Samar sad?

11.

Organize the character traits to the correct character in the story.

Categorize the following

hoarder

friendly

talkative

concerned

sad

lonely

Bongo
Red
Samar
12.

Which excerpt from Wishtree best supports the belief that Samar is unhappy?

a)

Soon after moving in, Samar began sneaking into the yard once her parents had fallen asleep.

b)

Her silence was so complete, her gentleness so apparent, that the residents would crawl from the nest of thistledown and dandelion fluff to join her.

c)

If this were a fairy tale, I would tell you there was something magical about Samar.

d)

Her cheeks were damp.

13.

Which statement from Wishtree contains a cause-effect relationship?

a)

A wish. The first wish I'd seen in months.

b)

I wasn't surprised she knew about the wishtree tradition. I'm kind of a local celebrity.

c)

Samar reached up, gently pulled down my lowest branch, and tied the fabric in a loose knot.

d)

"I wish," she whispered, "for a friend."

14.

salt-and-pepper chickadees

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

15.

Long story. (I have lots of those, stored up the way a squirrel hoards acorns.)

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

16.

Sometimes I feel like an apartment complex...

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

17.

Grass cools the earth, but it also bickers with me over water.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

18.

Her breath was a frosty veil.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

19.

Animals compete for resources, just like humans.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

20.

Nature is not always pretty or fair or kind.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification