Category 1
1.From whose point of view is the passage told?
D. Claire
Is this passage told in 1st person or 3rd person point of view?
1st person point of view
What is the genre of this passage?
Fiction
2. Which of the following best describes the narrator’s feelings right before she entered her apartment?
B. She was a little worried about what she might find.
3. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
B. Sammy stays in the apartment during the day.
How many paragraphs is this passage?
26
4 What is the purpose of paragraph 10?
A. to describe the problem in the passage
Why was Mom worried when she got home?
She saw the fire trucks and thought the house was on fire.
8. Which of the following best describes the setting of the story?
D. an apartment building in the late afternoon
6. Read paragraph 16 in the box below. “Oh, my heavens!” my neighbor exclaimed. The paragraph mostly shows that the neighbor is....
A. surprised.
7. According to the story, firefighters free Sammy by...
D. cutting open the can.
Reread paragraphs 13-17. Based on the except what does the word "hindquarters" mean?
Back legs
5. Which quotation from the passage gives evidence that Mrs. Hoffman wants to be helpful
A. "She began punching in the numbers for the fire department. I was glad she was doing it beause I felt sure if I did it, I'd get in trouble for making a false alarm."
10. Describe how Mrs. Hoffman's feelings about the problem in the passage are different than the narrator’s feelings about the problem.
Mrs. Hoffman feels like the problem is a little emergency because when she calls the fire department, she says "It's not a big emergency, just a small one." Claire feels like it is a big emergency because Sammy is her dog and he is stuck in a milk can.
9. Reread paragraph 26. Based on the paragraph, a “storage place” is a space in which to.....
C. keep things.