Pages 340-344
Pages 345-350
Pages 353-356
General Questions
PSSA Questions
100
Tell the setting of the passage.
What is Chile, South America?
100
Tell what problem Max had when he got the letter.
What is he could not read it because it was written in English?
100
Tell why Don Manuel told Max not go near any of the buildings after the earthquake.
What is because something might fall off the building and hurt Max?
100
Tell if the passage is real or make believe.
What is make believe?
100
Describe how Max feels when he opens the boxes from his pen pal.
What is happy and pleased?
200
Tell what Don Manuel's farm grows.
What is grapes?
200
Tell who can read the note for Max.
Who is Don Manuel because he reads English?
200
Tell why Max's school was closed.
What is because it had broken windows and cracks in the walls? It would take weeks to make repairs.
200
Tell if the passage is fiction or nonfiction.
What is fiction?
200
Tell why Max putting the letter in the box of grapes is important to the story.
What is because if he had not sent the note he would not have Maggie as a pen pal?
300
Tell why Max put the note into the box of grapes.
What is because he wanted to find a friend in the United States to become his pen pal?
300
Explain how Maggie got Max's note.
What is Maggie's father found the note and brought it home to her?
300
Tell what was in the piles of boxes that were delivered to Max's school.
What are school supplies from Maggie and her classmates?
300
Identify the author's purpose for writing the passage.
What is to entertain?
300
Tell the author's opinion of pen pals.
What is he thinks pen pals are fun because he wrote about two characters who became pen pals?
400
True or False: Max did not get an answer to his letter.
What is false?
400
Tell one way that Maggie and Max were alike.
What is they both have hobbies?
400
If the story were to continue predict what would happen next.
What is Max and his classmates will write thank you notes to Maggie and her classmates?
400
Explain when Max got the idea of having a pen pal.
What is when the manager told him the grapes were going to the United States and asked, "Do you have any friends there?"
400
Define nicely.
What is in a nice way?
500
Tell how you know this is realistic fiction.
What is it has characters and events that are like people and events in real life?
500
Describe what is happening on page 350.
What is there was an earthquake?
500
Use one word to describe Maggie and her classmates.
What is caring and loving because they sent school supplies to Max's school?
500
Identify the main idea of the passage.
What is that Max gets a pen pal and makes friends for others, too?
500
Find an example of alliteration on page 348.
What is pen pals?
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