Vocab
What is the best definition for the word insisted?
Stated something very firmly and refused to change one's mind.
A person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible.
A person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible.
What is the primary setting of the story's main conflict up to Chapter 6?
A suburban neighborhood during the last week of August.
True or False: Evan is best friends with Scott
False: Scott is Evan's "sometimes friend"
What it the best definition of the word deserting?
The verb 'deserting' always involves leaving or abandoning someone or something, often in a disloyal way.
Which word best describes something menacing?
Suggesting the presence of danger; threatening.
What is the external conflict that officially starts the 'war' between Evan and Jessie?
They both want to win the prize money from the school club contest.
True or False: Evan believes Jessie's biggest strength in the lemonade war is her ability to talk and charm customers.
False. Evan's strength is social smarts; Jessie's strength is her superior math and logic skills (her "brain power").
What does ferociously mean?
In a way that is powerfully aggressive or wildly intense.
The best meaning for the action of swatting is:
To hit or try to hit with a quick, short blow.
Which of the following describes the main difference between Evan's skills and Jessie's skills in the first few chapters?
Evan is better at talking to people, and Jessie is better at figuring out the math and logic of business.
True or False: Evan's original lemonade stand was a great success until Jessie opened her stand nearby.
False. Evan's original stand was already a failure due to the extreme heat and poor location before Jessie's stand even got going.
Which is the best synonym for the word pathetic?
Poorly done and causing pity or sadness.
Use one of the vocab words in a sentence
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What is the key event in Chapter 5, 'The Tricky Plan,' that intensifies the war and moves the rising action forward?
Evan finds Jessie's secret business folder and decides to use her plan against her.
True or False: In an act of truce, Evan offers Jessie a partnership in Chapter 6, but she refuses.
False. In Chapter 6, Evan is still angry and plots to use Jessie's secret business folder against her, showing the war is intensifying, not stopping.
What does it mean if something is transformed?
It has changed completely in appearance or nature.
Use one of the vocab words in a sentence.
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Why does Jessie start her lemonade stand much earlier than Evan expected, based on Chapter 2?
She found out about Evan's challenge and secretly decided to get a head start.
True or False: Jessie uses a small wagon to make her first lemonade stand easily portable and movable.
True. Jessie's ability to easily move her stand with the wagon is one of the key differences that gives her an early advantage over Evan.