Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Characters
Setting
Plot
100
honest
What is truthful?
100
dependable
What is reliable?
100
This person was shot in the story.
Who is Johnny?
100
This is where Tito, Jimmy, and Mina were at the beginning of the story.
What is a birthday party?
100
This is what the detective told Tito that Jimmy did for Ice Breaker Joe and Lamar?
What is the "ace man"?
200
revenge
What is getting even?
200
graffiti
What is spray painting on walls and other places?
200
He is telling the story.
Who is Tito?
200
This is where Mina went when she disappeared from the back yard.
What is the funeral home?
200
This is why Jimmy thought it was important to have a lot of money.
What is "to hear life sing"?
300
trembling
What is shaking?
300
rival
What is competition?
300
She is the neighbor who lets the Cahills move into her house.
Who is Mrs. Washington?
300
Mina loved the French Fries here.
What is Big Molly's Diner?
300
This is the reason Jimmy's own gang killed him.
What is because he was skimming money from the gang?
400
grief
What is sadness?
400
skimming
What is taking some off the top?
400
He is Tito's gangbanger friend.
Who is Gus?
400
This is where Jimmy left the note and suitcase full of money.
What is the crawl space?
400
To get Ice Breaker Joe and Lamar to go to the house and get the money and suitcase from the crawl space so he could call the police and get them arrested.
What is Tito's plan?
500
personification
What is giving human characteristics to non-living items?
500
simile
What is comparing two unlike items with "like" or "as"?
500
He is the annoying neighbor.
Who is Zev?
500
This is where Tito, Mina, and Gus went to school.
What is Mountain Street School?
500
The bathroom at the diner and in the street on the way to school.
What are two places Tito ran into Lisa Tosca?