Vocabulary
Comprehension A
Comprehension B
Literary Focus
Grab Bag
100
This word means to unfasten or unhook.
What is disengage?
100
Paulsen thinks that Storm is a special dog because.... A. He has an interesting personality B. He was given to him by his father C. He has long pointy ears D. He once saved him from a bear
What is A. He has an interesting personality?
100
This is what Paulsen meant when he says that Storm has "scale" eyes.
What is he uses his eyes to weigh when a load is too heavy or just right?
100
This is the genre of writing the excerpt "Storm" is.
What is an autobiography?
100
This is one of the themes in the selection "Storm"?
What is "Winning Isn't Everything"?
200
This word means to give out or send forth.
What is emit?
200
This is the trick that Storm plays on the dog next to him.
What is he snorts wind into the other dog's ear?
200
This is what carrying the stick became between Paulsen and Storm.
What is a lifelong habit on runs?
200
In the story, this is pronoun the author uses to refer to himself?
What is I?
200
This is the dog that almost took Storm's head off for playing a trick on him.
Who is Fonzie?
300
This word means to recover or to get back.
What is regain?
300
This is why Storm "smiles" at Gary Paulsen when he puts his hat on.
What is he had stolen it and buried it in the snow?
300
This is the way that Storm communicates that the team is being overworked.
What is he drops the stick?
300
This is the term that describes the type of narration used in the selection.
What is first-person point of view?
300
This is how many miles the dog sled team had to travel carrying the stove.
What is twelve miles?
400
This word means to achieve something.
What is gain?
400
This is how Storm lets Paulsen know that he is running the dogs too hard.
What is he drops the stick and refuses to accept it from Paulsen?
400
This is the reason that Storm growls at the stove.
What is because it is too heavy?
400
This is the narrator of Storm.
Who is Gary Paulsen, the author?
400
This is the funny physical characteristic the Storm was born with.
What is big ears?
500
This word means to fasten something or hook it up?
What is engage?
500
This is what Storm does as the stove is being loaded.
What is he watches with interest as the stove is loaded?
500
This is the lesson that Paulsen learns in one Pre-Idiarod race from Storm.
What is the dogs are more important than winning?
500
This is the point of view used when the narrator tells the story but never takes place in the action.
What is third-person point of view?
500
This is the person that Gary Paulsen says Storm resembles when he gets older.
Who is George Burns?