Characters
Who is sitting at the bridge?
The Old Man
The main setting of this story is at the:
Bridge of the Ebro Delta
Why is the old man not moving further off the bridge?
He was too tired
The old man has evacuated from the town of ______.
San Carlos
Aside from highlighting, name ONE thing annotations may contian:
definitions, personal commentary, notes, illustrations
The story is told from who's point of view?
The narrator's
The story is set during which war era?
The Spanish Civil War
What animals did the Old Man have to leave behind?
Goats, a cat, and pigeons
The story takes place during the ______ Civil War.
Spanish
According to our Annotation guide, yellow is used when we are annotating:
Characters
The old man is described as wearing
Spectacles and very dusty clothes
The narrartor describes the Ebro Delta as a _______ looking country
African
Why did the Old Man have to leave his house?
War was headed in that directions/ The captain of the artillery told him he had to do so
The old man says he was the ______ to leave his village.
last
According to our Annotation guide, pink is used when we are annotating:
Plot points
The narrator says it is his business to:
Where are the trucks off the island headed toward?
How does the narrator comfort the Old Man about his animals?
Tells them they will probably make it out all right/ cat can take of itself/ pigeons will fly away
The story ends with the sense that the old man’s fate is left ______.
Uncertain / bad
According to our Annotation guide, green is used when we are annotating:
Setting
The enemies advancing toward the Ebro are:
The Fascists
The Ebro Delta is located where?
Off the coast of Spain
The Old Man make it off the Bridge at the end of the story (True or False)
False
The narrator works as a ______, not just an observer.
Solider
According to our Annotation guide, circles are used when we are annotating:
Something that needs a second look/ a word to be defined