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Tangerine Reading Test
Beigesteuert von: Hunter
  • 1. Who is the author of Tangerine?
A) Edward Blue
B) Edward Bloor
C) Gary Soto
D) Gary Paulsen
E) Louis Lowry
  • 2. What is the setting of Tangerine?
A) Tangerine County, Texas
B) Florida County, Texas
C) Tangerine County, Georgia
D) Houston, Texas
E) Tangerine County, Florida
  • 3. What is happening at the beginning of the story?
A) The Fishers are moving from Florida to Texas
B) The Fishers are moving from Texas to Florida
C) The Fishers are moving to Tangerine County, Georgia
D) The Fishers are going on a vacation to Florida
E) The Fishers are going camping
  • 4. Based on early descriptions, what social class do the Fisher family most likely fit into?
A) low poor class
B) rich famous class
C) upper class
D) low-middle class
E) upper-middle class
  • 5. How does the author depict Mom's character in the beginning of the story?
A) mom seems unorganized, and active
B) mom seems particular, organized, efficient, and very active
C) mom seems very upset and nervous
D) mom is demanding and lazy
E) mom seems unorganized and lazy
  • 6. What incident does Paul remember as he and his mom are about to leave the house?
A) he was almost attacked with a baseball bat while riding his bike
B) looking at the sun and hurting his eyes when he was younger
C) his brother punching him in the face causing his bad eyesight
D) walking home and almost run over by a black car
E) almost hit with a baseball bat while walking home
  • 7. How do Paul's parents respond to his story about his brother's behavior towards him?
A) his parents say that he is blaming his brother because he is jealous
B) his parents discipline his brother by grounding him for a week
C) his parents just tell him that his brother would not hurt him and gives him a hug
D) his parents dismiss it and blame it on his poor vision
E) his parents ground Paul for a week for lying
  • 8. What does Paul mean when he says, "I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can't, or won't"?
A) he knows his brother protects him, but he blames him so he doesn't get in trouble for being bad
B) he can see good things that happen, but not the bad things
C) he has poor vision, but he knows the truth about his brother's character
D) he can see bad things that happen, but not the good things
E) he has poor vision, and he knows what mom is hiding from him about his eyesight
  • 9. Where does Paul and his family move from?
A) Tangerine County, Georgia
B) Houston, Texas
C) Charleston, North Carolina
D) Austin, Texas
E) Versailles, Italy
  • 10. Why is Paul's brother's career so important to Dad?
A) he doesn't know how to play soccer
B) Paul is not good at football
C) dad regrets not playing that sport in college and thinks that his oldest son can play for him and receive a scholarship to college
D) his oldest son has a handicap and cannot play
E) he thinks that you should only go to school to play sports
  • 11. What does this quote, "It's like we are major leaguers who've been sent down to a minor-league city to do great things, and then move back up to the big leagues"?
A) Paul's brother will be a star soccer player in a small town and he will play for a professional team in the future
B) The community is small enough that the Fisher family will stand out and Paul's brother will be a football star and will be able to play for a professional team in the future.
C) Paul's brother will never be a star playing for a small school
D) Paul's brother will never be a star until he moves back to a bigger town and a bigger school
E) Paul's brother will skip playing football in middle school, and become a star player at college
  • 12. Why is Paul's mom concerned about P.E. classes at Paul's new school?
A) Paul needs P.E. classes since he will not be playing any sports
B) Paul's poor eyesight will not let Paul participate in P.E. classes as required
C) her son needs P.E. to stay in shape for sports
D) the school looks run down and not well-equipped for any sport
E) P.E. class will be held in a small portable
  • 13. How did Paul react when he first saw Florida?
A) he wants to get a drink of water and go barefoot in the fields
B) he is sad and wants to run away
C) he wants to burn down all of the trees and go back where he came from
D) he is happy and wants to have a party to celebrate
E) he has an urge to get out and run through the fields and he thinks people should not burn down citrus trees
  • 14. Why is Paul disqualified from playing for the Lake Windsor soccer team?
A) Paul doesn't live in the Lake Windsor district, and he should legally play for Tangerine Middle School
B) Paul's IEP says that his eyesight is a disability and therefore he can't play
C) Paul would rather play football
D) Paul got into a fight with one of the players
E) Paul skipped practice too many times
  • 15. What does Paul's brother tell his friends about Paul's poor eyesight?
A) He stared too long at a solar eclipse
B) he got hit with a soccer ball during a game
C) someone pointed a laser pointer in his eyes and burned his cornea
D) someone sprayed paint in his eyes
E) he was born with poor eyesight
  • 16. Paul's dad's plan to help his son that interferes with their family life is called what?
A) The Fishers Family Dream
B) Erik Fisher Soccer Dream
C) Paul Fisher Soccer Dream
D) Paul Fisher Football Dream
E) Erik Fisher Football Dream
  • 17. What group does Mrs. Fisher work with to make rules and improvements in the community?
A) Home Improvement Association
B) Tangerine County Fire Department
C) Homeowners Association
D) PTA: Parents/Teachers Association
E) Community Building Association
  • 18. Why is Paul fascinated by the people in the freak show?
A) he relates to the people in the show because his poor eyesight was caused by a freak accident
B) Paul had never seen someone with body deformities
C) they seem to be happy with their lifestyle
D) they move around a lot with the carnival and never have a place to call home
E) he has never seen anything so fascinating
  • 19. What is the name of the entire freak show?
A) Freaky People
B) Freaky Accidents
C) Wonders of the World
D) Wonders of the Universe
E) Buffalo Man & Frozen Fraulein
  • 20. Who is covering the news story on TV about the collapsed portables into a sinkhole?
A) CNN
B) ESPN
C) FOX
D) Channel 15
E) Channel 2
  • 21. Who is the publisher of the Tangerine Times?
A) Mr. Guzman
B) Mr. Costello
C) Mr. Fisher
D) Mr. Bauer
E) Mr. Donnelly
  • 22. Why was Coach Walski Trying to get Paul disqualified from the Tangerine Middle team?
A) He thinks Paul is a trouble-maker
B) Joey wants him to play at the other school
C) He has an IEP that says he is vision-impaired
D) He wants Paul to be a player on his team
E) Paul was playing out of district
  • 23. Who escorted Paul around school on his first day at Tangerine Middle?
A) Theresa
B) Betty Bright
C) Paige
D) Cara
E) Shandra
  • 24. What does Paul notice in old family photographs?
A) He has a scar on his face
B) Mr. Warner
C) He is not in them
D) He is not wearing glasses of any kind before the summer of the eclipse
E) He is a fat child
  • 25. What scent does Paul smell as he is going to school and what is he referring to??
A) sweet scent of Luis' tangerines
B) golden glow scent of Luis' tangerines
C) sweet scent of Tino's tangerines
D) golden dawn scent of Luis' tangerines
E) golden dawn scent to Tino's tangerines
  • 26. What actually happened to Paul's vision?
A) Paul sprayed himself with spray paint
B) Paul got kicked in the eye by a soccer ball
C) Paul looked into a solar eclipse
D) Paul got acid smeared in his eyes
E) Paint was sprayed in his eyes by Erik and his friend
  • 27. What did Paul find on his father's computer?
A) a file containing information about what happened to Paul's vision
B) a file containing information on Erik's soccer scholarship offers
C) a file containing information on Paul's football scholarship offers
D) a file containing information on school that Erik can attend to play football
E) a file containing information on Erik's football scholarship offers
  • 28. Who is Shandra's brother and why does she not want her picture in the paper?
A) Antoine and she don't want to be recognized because her brother is playing on another team out of the district.
B) Antoine and she is afraid that she would be pulled off of the team since she is playing in the wrong district
C) Tino and she don't want to be recognized because her brother is playing on another team out of the district.
D) Arthur and she don't want to be recognized because her brother is playing on another team out of the district.
E) Author and she is afraid that she would be pulled off of the team since she is playing in the wrong district
  • 29. Why is Paul willing to play second string?
A) he can be a member of the soccer team and be protected from his brother Erik
B) He will be playing on a co-ed team and he wants to meet one of the pretty girls
C) he can play football without his brother Erik picking on him
D) He is happy just to be playing soccer at all
E) Because Joey is on the team and he wants to be with his best friend
  • 30. What is the name of the Soccer team from Lake Windsor?r
A) Seagulls
B) Golden Glow Tangerines
C) Osprey
D) War Eagles
E) War Hawks
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