WorksheetsU1ST1 Brown Girl Dreaming
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 16mins
Where does the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming take place?
Uncle Robert's house
Halsey Park
Greenville, South Carolina
New York City
Which sentence best shows the meaning of shushes?
Tom cheers wildly at the basketball game.
Jackson wades through the muddy river.
Grandma softly tells the children not to make any noise.
Sandy rolls the cookie dough into small spheres.
Your little brother is humming at the dinner table. Which of your senses tells you this?
(a)
sight
taste
touch
Which of these sentences contains the best example of onomatopoeia?
The dice clattered onto the tabletop.
We slid across the floor in our socks.
Here is a book of nursery rhymes.
It's raining cats and dogs outside.
What type of text does a writer tell a true story from a specific period in his or her own life?
(a)
mood
genre
point of view
How can we tell that Woodson (the writer) is telling us something important in her writing?
She repeats it
She makes it rhyme
She separates it from the other lines
She puts parentheses ( ) around it
Read these lines "believing," in Brown Girl Dreaming.
But my mother accuses me of lying.
If you lie, she says, one day you'll steal.
I won't steal.
What does the author use most clearly in these lines from her memoir, and why?
She uses line breaks to show point of view.
She uses strong verbs to move the plot forward.
She uses dialogue or conversation to show that two characters disagree.
She uses vivid words to create images in the reader's mind.
Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming best illustrates first-person point of view?
...No slip and slide through grass.
Uncle Robert has moved to New York City!
I went up a hill yesterday, I say.
Sometimes, that's the way things happen.
In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is Woodson always doing?
winning awards
getting in trouble
making things up
trying to sneak out
Which line or lines in "brooklyn rain" from Brown Girl Dreaming most clearly support the statement "staying indoors bores her"?
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...
Down south already feels like a long time ago...
Identify a key characteristic of the author's older sister in 'Brown Girl Dreaming'.
Intelligent and studious
Rebellious and carefree
Shy and introverted
Athletic and outgoing
If Mia says the snowflakes are feathery, what does she mean?
The snowflakes are sticking to her
The snowflakes are flying away
The snowflakes are soft and light
The snowflakes are falling rapidly
Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming most clearly conveys that Woodson has an imagination?
I say, I know a girl ten times smarter than her. She gets diamonds every time she gets a hundred on a test.
...The boys say,/I was a baby. Says, She doesn't remember him/ and points to his silent sister.
When he takes us to the park, Uncle Robert tells us,/If you catch a dandeion puff, you can make a wish
But we are already awake, all four of us, smiling/and jumping around/my uncle: What'd you bring me?
Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming most clearly conveys that Woodson has an imagination?
...His feet are magic/and we all try to slide across the floor like he does,/our feet, again and again,/betraying us.
Who was with you?/Nobody./But you're not allowed to the park without anyone./I just did.
It's hard to understand/the way my brain works.../How each new story/I'm told becomes a thing/ that happens,/ in some other way/to me...!
...When I read, the words twist/twirl across the page./ When they settle, it is too late./ The class has already moved on.
How can you tell that Brown Girl Dreaming is not an example of prose?
It is long and filled with interesting details.
It is written in stanzas, not paragraphs.
It tells a story from the author's own life.
It presents a single author's thoughts.
Onomatopoeia is
using the same sound to start several words.
using words to mimic sounds.
repeating a word or phrase.
exaggerating for effect.
Which detail from the passage below contains an example of onomatopoeia?
Alicia woke at dawn to the sound of birds twittering in the tree outside. She pulled the pillow over her head and tried to go back to sleep. Didn't the birds know it was Saturday?
"Alicia woke at dawn..."
"...birds twittering in the tree outside"
"She pulled the pillow over her head..."
"Didn't the birds know it was Saturday?"
What is one of the challenges of childhood that Woodson faces in the excerpt of Brown Girl Dreaming?
