I'm in Charge of Celebrations
  • 1. I will ___________ you when I am ready.
A) signal
B) admiring
C) choosy
D) tracks
  • 2. Our town has big ___________ on the Fourth of July and Labor Day.
A) average
B) celebrations
C) tracks
D) admiring
  • 3. My parents are very ____________ about the TV shows I'm allowed to watch.
A) celebrations
B) choosy
C) signal
D) tracks
  • 4. The doctor says the baby is __________ in height for her age.
A) celebrations
B) average
C) admiring
D) choosy
  • 5. We knew there had been a raccoon in the yard last night because we saw its ______________.
A) tracks
B) admiring
C) choosy
D) average
  • 6. The teacher was _____________ Peter's artwork when we walked in. You could hardly blame her, his work was exquisite, making all the others appear exceptionally drab by comparison.
A) signal
B) tracks
C) average
D) admiring
  • 7. This selection is most like a narrative poem because it _____________.
A) rhymes
B) is shaped like a camel
C) tells a story
D) is a song
  • 8. The poet keeps track of the many events she celebrates by _____________.
A) drawing pictures of them
B) painting in her diary every single day
C) inviting animals friends to play freeze tag
D) keeping a notebook of important events
  • 9. When the poet says "your heart will POUND" on page 305, she means that you will feel _____________.
A) sad
B) disappointed
C) scared to death
D) excited
  • 10. Swirling, Swaying, and Dancing are ways that dust devils _____________.
A) feel
B) move
C) smell
D) sound
  • 11. A dust devil is a kind of ____________.
A) wind
B) dance
C) dirt
D) music
  • 12. How do the dust devils affect the poet and her friends?
A) they protect their faces from the dust
B) They turn around and around until they fall down
C) They drive the truck away very fast to get away from the dust devils
D) they jump up and down
  • 13. The poet draws the jackrabbit in her picture of the triple rainbow because _____________.
A) the rabbit looks silly standing there
B) she shared this special moment with the jackrabbit
C) usually rabbits don't stand up
D) it happens all the time
  • 14. The poet feels lucky on Green Cloud Day because _____________.
A) she was lucky to see it
B) the cloud has a parrot's shape
C) it is a winter afternoon
D) it doesn't rain
  • 15. The poet "never will feel quite the same" after seeing the coyote because _____________.
A) the coyote's howl is super scary
B) she touches the coyote
C) they walk side by side for a while
D) they look into each other's eyes
  • 16. Where do the events that the poet celebrate take place?
A) in the mountains
B) near a city
C) by a pool of water
D) in the desert
  • 17. What sort of things does the poet celebrate?
A) things in nature
B) important dates in history
C) things she can count
D) birthdays of famous people
  • 18. Why does the poet laugh when people ask if she's lonely?
A) Because she feels that the land and animals are her friends
B) because she has a bad habit of laughing at totally inappropriate times during otherwise normal conversations with people who are really just trying to see if she's okay.
C) because she had lots of pets
D) because she's surrounded by tons of friends all the time
  • 19. Which of these is NOT a celebration the girl has?
A) New Year Celebration
B) Rainbow Celebration Day
C) Coyote Day
D) Green Bird Day
  • 20. Which of the following statements is evidence from the text that she is not always alone when she sees something that becomes a a celebration.
A) Well, last March eleventh we were all going somehwere. I was in the back of a pickup truck when the dust devils started to gather.
B) Friend, I wish you'd been here for Dust Devil Day.
C) I met a man who told me he had seen it too while he was lying by a campfire five hundred miles away.
D) You can see I'm very lucky about things like that.
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