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