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Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Comprehension 1
Comprehension 2
100
This is a way of acting, thinking, or feeling.
What is attitude?
100
This is an area.
What is a section?
100
This is what makes Miss Ida's porch so special.
What is neighbors gather there to tell stories?
100
This is why daddy begins to breath loud and hard.
What is he is angry about the way African Americans were treated?
200
This is to declare as one's own.
What is claim?
200
This is a musical performance.
What is a concert?
200
This is what the narrator sees and hears just before she drifts off to sleep.
What is she can see Miss Ida's porch and hear the people talking?
200
This was the last story told by daddy.
What is a story about Marion Anderson's last concert?
300
This is outstanding or excellent.
What is magnificent?
300
This is the best or most excellent.
What is finest?
300
This is how you can tell that daddy's story is "fuel" for the narrator's young mind.
What is his stories help her picture events and the past and people in her mind?
300
This is what the narrator meant when she said, "my dad's story brought the end to the very best time of the evening".
What is after the story, it was time for the narrator to leave Miss Ida's porch and go to bed?
400
This is fascinated, filled with delight or wonder.
What is spellbound?
400
This is off limits.
What is forbidden?
400
This is why daddy takes a seat on the porch.
What is he wants to tell a story about Uncle Henry?
400
According to Uncle Henry, this helps you know where you are going.
What is you have to know your history or where you've been?
500
This is a civilization.
What is an advanced human society?
500
This is a streetcar that runs on tracks and gets it's power from an electric wire overhead.
What is a trolley?
500
This is how daddy is like Uncle Henry.
What is they are both good storytellers, have deep voices, and command respect.
500
This is the meaning of the suffix-ant.
What is one who does?