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- 1. Multiple Choice
1. What is the central idea of "The Jacket"?
A young boy is embarrassed by his traditional Mexican family.
A young boy loses his father and is thrown into poverty.
A young boy gets rejected by girls because he's ugly.
A young boy hates the only jacket his mother can afford for him.
- 2. Multiple Choice
2. Which sentence captures best the theme of "The Jacket"?
The way you dress influences how you feel about yourself.
Mothers should be more considerate of their children's feelings when dressing them.
Everyone has had a bad fashion day.
If you don't wear fancy clothes, you won't make fancy friends.
- 3. Multiple Choice
3. What can the reader infer about Gary based on his actions in "The Jacket"?
He gets along well with his brothers and sisters.
He makes enemies easily.
He isn't confident.
He doesn't care what anyone thinks of him.
- 4. Multiple Choice
4. How does Gary transform, or evolve, over the course of the text?
He goes from being friendless and lonely to popular.
He goes from being angry to being overjoyed.
He goes from being a loser to being stylish.
He goes from being selfish and self-conscious to resigned and accepting.
- 5. Multiple Choice
5. 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 annoyances he must accept.
Both the jacket and his brother are ugly.
The jacket is green and his brother loves the Hulk.
- 6. Multiple Choice
6. What is the most LIKELY reason Gary had no friends in 6th grade?
The girls thought he wasn't cute.
No one wanted to be friends with him because they were afraid of getting ugly cooties.
He purposefully isolated himself because he was ashamed of his jacket.
They were afraid the playground terrorist would come after them, too.
- 7. Multiple Choice
7. When the author describes his ideal jacket to his mother, he describes something like…
bikers' wear.
doctors' wear.
pilots' wear.
businessmen's wear
- 8. Multiple Choice
8. How did the narrator feel about the jacket when he first saw it?
eager
uninterested
delighted
disappointed
- 9. Multiple Choice
9. Which quote best shows the many years the narrator had to wear the jacket?
But that L-shaped rip on the left sleeve got bigger; bits of stuffing coughed out from its wound after a hard day of play.
Even the girls who had been friendly blew away like loose flowers to follow the boys in neat jackets.
Even though I was cold, I took off the jacket during lunch and played kickball in a thin shirt, my arms feeling like braille from goosebumps.
We saw girls walk by alone, saw couples, hand in hand, their heads like bookends pressing air together.
- 10. Multiple Choice
10. Which quote shows that by the end of the story, the narrator has accepted the jacket?
I finally Scotch-taped it closed, but in rain or cold weather the tape peeled off like a scab and more stuffing fell out until that sleeve shriveled into a palsied arm.
The faces of clouds were piled up, hurting. I climbed the fence, jumping down with a grunt.
Later, however, I swiped the jacket off the ground and went inside to drape it across my lap and mope.
I blame that jacket for those bad years. I blame my mother for her bad taste and her cheap ways. It was a sad time for the heart.
- 11. Multiple Choice
11. What is the main conflict in “The Jacket”?
The narrator suffers bullying at school because of his ugly jacket.
The narrator believes that his ugly jacket is the cause for everything negative in his life.
The narrator’s mother buys him the wrong color jacket.
The narrator has to wear a ripped jacket because he was careless.
- 12. Multiple Choice
12. From what point of view is “The Jacket” told?
first person
third person limited
third person omniscient
second person
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