Vocabulary
Which word means "twisted her eyes and mouth with disgust"
audacity
gorging
grimaced
loftiest
What is grimaced?
How does Jerry originally feel when the drugstore stops selling cowboy cards?
What is disappointed?
Mary chooses the river side of the woods because...
What is she planned to sleep on a boat?
What is the reason the narrator wants to wear jeans?
What is she wants to blend in with the other kids?
How does Jerry get the money to give to Armand?
What is Jerry sells the Grover Cleveland card to Rollie for $5.00?
The word that could replace the words "bold courage" in a sentence:
audacity
gorging
loftiest
shrewdest
What is audacity?
What is they got good grades on their history test?
What can you infer about grandfather's reaction when Mary first returns?
What is that grandfather is disappointed for not sticking to the traditions?
Onomatopoeia means...
What is a word that imitates a sound?
True or False
The narrator is a boy named Jerry.
What is True?
Replace the word in the sentence: In the past, only the strongest and "cleverest" survived Ta-Na-E-Ka.
audacity
grimaced
loftiest
shrewdest
What is the shrewdest?
True or False?
If the kids collect all of the president cards, they get a new bike.
What is false?
What does Mary order first when she goes to the restaurant?
What is hambuger and milkshake?
The setting of this story is...
What is present-day in an American town?
True or False?
Armand threatens to beat up Jerry if he tells about the letter.
What is true?
The definition for gorging...
What is to eat a large amount?
Why can't Jerry and his friends get a complete set of president cards?
What is they can't find the Grover Cleveland card?
What is Mary's internal conflict in the story?
What is she feels guilty about the way she survives Ta-Na-E-KA?
Give an example of lavish...
Answers will vary.
True or False
Before Armand can go to the dance with Sally, he needs money to buy a new jacket.
What is false?
The word loftiest means....
What is highest?
What lesson does Jerry learn in the story?
What is to put other's needs before your own?
What does Mary learn from her Ta-Na-E-Ka journey?
What is she is resourceful and she kept the traditions of her family?
After the Lin family slurped their soup...
Give an example of a person that is making a spectacle of themselves.
Answers may vary (The Lin family slurping their soup at a fancy restaurant.)