the words used to describe the character in a story
What are character traits?
100
the foreign language that Victor pretended to know
What is French?
100
the country in which the story takes place
What is Cuba?
100
the person to whom the wall was dedicated
Who is Jimmy Lyons?
100
what the boy wants to do instead of go to school in "A Stolen Day"
What is go fishing?
200
a writer will just tell you what a character is like in this method of characterization
What is "direct characterization"?
200
True or False? Victor gives up easily.
What is False?
200
the disease that Rudy had preventing him from playing baseball
What is polio?
200
the reason the painter lady wouldn't eat the meal that the neighborhood girls brought her
What is she was a vegetarian?
200
while Schatz was in bed resting from the flu, his father did this
What is hunted quail?
300
an educated guess making connections between what the author writes and your own experiences
What is an inference?
300
At the end of the story, Teresa asked if Victor would do this for her
What is help her with her French?
300
Rudy feels the need to prove himself to Bebo more than anyone else because Bebo is somewhat of a ______ toward Rudy.
What is a bully?
300
what the narrator and Lou found out about their first impressions
What is they were wrong?
300
what the family did when the narrator told his family that he had inflammatory rheumatism
What is they laughed at him?
400
characters are revealed through appearance, actions, speech, thoughts and feelings, and other characters' reactions in this method of characterization
What is "indirect characterization"?
400
the reason Victor said that Mr. Bueller is a good guy
What is he didn't make fun of Victor in front of the class when he pretended to know French to impress Teresa?
400
the way that Rudy's father and the Russian soldier show respect for one another at the end of the story
What is they address each other as "comrade" or "friend" in each other's native language?
400
Name two of the famous people painted on the wall.
Who are Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, W.E.B. Dubois?
400
the reason Schatz thought he was dying
What is mixing up Celsius and Fahrenheit?
500
example of the narrator's shyness and awkwardness
What is wearing a sweater and turtleneck in the summer, yelling when talking to Eileen, continuing to give her popcorn and candy, having a friend ask her out?
500
the way Michael tried to impress girls
What is scowling at them?
500
reason Alfredo finally allowed Rudy to play on the team
What is Rudy's father bought the team uniforms in exchange for allowing Rudy to play one game?
500
what the boys were going to do to the wall before they found out what the painter lady really did to it
What is paint over it?
500
the reason the narrator feels unappreciated by his family, particularly his mother
What is she doesn't stop what she is doing when he is "sick" and he is jealous of her attention to the drowned neighbor child?