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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the conflict (problem) in paragraph 1?
Aunty Misery is a lonely old woman
The neighborhood kids are climbing Aunty Misery's tree.
The old woman's hut was next to a pear tree.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What does the word "bade" mean?
to fix
to ask
to command
- 3. Multiple Choice
"Shimmied" is a synonym for which word?
taunt
climb
crawl
- 4. Multiple Choice
What genre is this story?
folktale
fantasy
fiction
- 5. Multiple Choice
What happened to the children when they climbed the tree?
Aunty Misery would not let them out of the tree.
They stole Aunty Misery's pears.
They got stuck.
- 6. Multiple Choice
"I am Death, and I have come to take you with me." WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS USED IN THIS SENTENCE?
hyperbole
metaphor
personification
- 7. Multiple Choice
What does the author compare Aunty Misery with in paragraph 8?
Death
The tree
A Desert
- 8. Multiple Choice
"He answered her in a voice that was dry and hoarse, as if he had swallowed a desert." WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS USED IN THIS SENTENCE?
metaphor
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is the setting of the story?
A pear tree
little hut
catacomb
- 10. Multiple Choice
The author wrote this story to explain why...
death comes to the elderly
children should respect their elders
there is so much misery in the world
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