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Worksheets"Eleven" and "On Turning Ten" Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 52mins
What is the main theme of the story 'Eleven' by Sandra Cisneros?
The struggle of growing up and feeling misunderstood
The importance of friendship and loyalty
The journey of self-discovery and acceptance
The conflict between tradition and change
How does the narrator feel about turning eleven in the story 'Eleven'?
Excited and happy
Indifferent and neutral
Sad and disappointed
Anxious and uneasy
The incident with the red sweater in the story 'Eleven' involves:
Rachel being forced to wear it by her teacher
Rachel finding it and returning it to its owner
Rachel giving it to a friend as a gift
Rachel losing it on the playground
The narrator wishes she was one hundred and two instead of eleven because:
She dislikes being treated like a child.
She believes being older will solve her problems.
She wants to skip the awkwardness of growing up.
How does the narrator's experience with the red sweater affect her feelings about her birthday?
It makes her feel excited about her birthday.
It makes her feel indifferent about her birthday.
It makes her feel sad about her birthday.
It makes her feel angry about her birthday.
What is the main conflict that Rachel faces in the passage?
Rachel struggles with her identity.
Rachel faces a challenge at work.
Rachel has a disagreement with a friend.
Rachel is dealing with a family issue.
The red sweater in the story is significant because it symbolizes:
love and passion.
anger and danger.
comfort and warmth.
embarrassment and shame.
In paragraph 3, Rachel says, "Because the way you grow old is kind of like an
onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one
inside the other."
The narrator cannot make up her mind about what it means to be older, and so
she does not know what it means to be herself.
The narrator feels overwhelmed by how quickly she is growing up, and she is
afraid that she does not act her current age.
The narrator believes that everyone is just hiding how old they really are behind
different ages, or layers.
The narrator thinks of growing up as developing layers, instead of becoming an
entirely new person as you age.
How does the speaker describe growing up?
You become more mature with every year.
You carry your previous years with you.
Which statement best identifies a major theme of the text?
We are shaped by our past ages, even as we grow up and change.
Adults always think they know better because they are older.
What does the title of the story have to do with the plot of the story?
No one likes being eleven.
Eleven is the best age to be.
There are eleven students in Rachel's class.
Rachel is turning eleven.
A word that imitates the sound it represents.
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
pun
alliteration
The speaker of the poem doesn't want to turn ten because...
life gets to easy when you are older.
the best age you can be is two years old.
he doesn't want to get wrinkles.
he'll miss certain parts of his life when he was younger.
What does this description reveal about the speaker's attitude towards aging?
Re-read these lines from stanza 3 of the poem.
"and my bicycle never leaned against the garage as it does today, all the dark blue speed drained out of it."
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
metaphor
simile
personification
onomatopoeia
