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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the central idea of "The Jacket"?
A young boy is embarrassed by his traditional Mexican family.
A young boy gets rejected by girls because he's ugly.
A young boy loses his father and is thrown into poverty.
A young boy hates the only jacket his mother can afford for him.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is the theme, or moral lesson, of "The Jacket"?
The way you dress influences how you feel about yourself.
Everyone has had a bad fashion day.
Mothers should be more considerate of their children's feelings when dressing them.
If you don't wear fancy clothes, you won't make fancy friends.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is the narrator's conflict?
He needs a smaller jacket.
He needs new shoes.
He does not like the jacket his mother bought.
He needs a new jacket.
- 4. Multiple Choice
All of the following are settings in "The Jacket" EXCEPT:
An alley
Gary's house
A playground
Supermarket
- 5. Multiple Choice
What can the reader infer about Gary based on his actions in "The Jacket"?
He gets along well with his brothers and sisters.
He isn't confident.
He makes enemies easily.
He doesn't care what anyone thinks of him.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Why does the jacket make the narrator want to cry?
It was the last thing he has from his father.
It has a lot of sentimental value.
It used to belong to his father.
It is ugly.
- 7. Multiple Choice
How would the story be different if Gary's family wasn't poor?
Gary wouldn't be spoiled.
Gary's mom could've afforded the jacket he wanted.
Gary wouldn't care what others thought of him.
The playground terrorist would leave Gary alone.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Why does Gary call the jacket "a green ugly brother"?
Because he hates the jacket and he hates his brother.
Both the jacket and his brother are ugly.
Both the jacket and his brother are annoyances he must accept.
The jacket is green and his brother loves the Hulk.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is the most LIKELY reason Gary had no friends in 6th grade?
He purposefully isolated himself because he was ashamed of his jacket.
No one wanted to be friends with him because they were afraid of getting ugly cooties.
The girls thought he wasn't cute.
They were afraid the playground terrorist would come after them, too.
- 10. Multiple Choice
When the author describes his ideal jacket to his mother, he describes something like...?
pilots wear
bikers wear
doctors wear
businessmen wear
- 11. Multiple Choice
How does the author describe the color of his new jacket?
the color of a dirty diaper
the color of grape jello
the color of red roses
the color of day-old guacamole
- 12. Multiple Choice
How does the jacket fit the first time he wears it?
short
tight
just right
loose
- 13. Multiple Choice
According to the narrator, how does the jacket affect his grades?
his grades get better
his grades stay the same
his grades get worse
he fails every subject
- 14. Multiple Choice
How does the narrator repair the hole in his jacket?
a piece of Scotch tape
a needle and thread
a piece of gum
a dollop of fabric glue
- 15. Multiple Choice
How does the jacket deteriorate during the story?
the elbows crack
the stuffing falls out
chunks of green fall off
all of these
- 16. Multiple Choice
According to the narrator, his mother always seems to be...
in the garden pulling weeds in her old raggedy apron.
in the den reading her books with his young siblings.
in the kitchen at the stove with steamed-up glasses.
in her rocking chair on the front porch drinking sweet tea.
- 17. Multiple Choice
The narrator's siblings made ugly faces at their glasses of _______.
soda
powdered milk
orange juice
water
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