"Into the Storm"

In which sentence does LaShana Mae state what the story she’s telling is mainly about?

• “He lived by Calico Creek where it narrows down to marsh grass, flounder, and fiddler crabs.” (p. 18) 
• “I thought Tucker was the cutest thing in the world.” (p. 18) 
• “But one day, Tucker did something that made everybody stop calling him names he didn’t like.” (p. 18) 
• “He noticed a man on the Moten Motel dock a few yards away.” (p. 18)

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On page 18, LaShana Mae says, “Kids called me Wires and that infuriated me.” What does infuriated mean?

• made extremely angry
• greatly confused 
•  slightly annoyed
• totally amused

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On page 19, Richard says that Tucker “would make an excellent tugboat.” Richard is using this metaphor to say that Tucker is

• too short to be a captain in the Coast Guard.
• too young to join the Coast Guard.
• the best swimmer in Morehead City.
• strong, determined, and capable.

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How does the way the other kids treat Tucker change over the course of the story?

• They go from disliking him to feeling concerned about him
• They go from liking him to disliking him.
• They go from teasing him to honoring him.
• They go from being suspicious of him to trusting him.

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What event causes the change in the kids’ treatment of Tucker that you identified in question 4? 

• Kids start calling Tucker “Tugboat.”
• Tucker rescues Mr. Nibbles
• Tucker talks about being helped by a ghost. 
• Tucker joins the Coast Guard.

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Which of the statements below best describes the relationship between LaShana Mae and Tucker as kids?

•  As kids, LaShana Mae and Tucker were friends—although LaShana Mae also had a crush on Tucker
• LaShana Mae and Tucker were acquaintances that lived on the same street together.
• LaSahana Mae liked Tucker but he did not like her.
• LaShana Mae and Tucker started out as friends but by the end of the story they were enemies.

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How does the author Eleanora E. Tate inform readers about a real person from history through her fictional story “Into the Storm.” 

• She teaches readers about a real person from history in her story “Into the Storm” by including the ghost of Richard Etheridge as one of the characters. Etheridge was a real person who lived from 1842–1900.
•  Etheridge tells Tucker a bit about himself—that he is from Manteo, on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and that he works with the U.S. Life-Saving Service.  At this point in the story, Tucker doesn’t realize that he is learning about a person from history, and readers may not realize that they are too—but they are.  
• Tucker finds information about Etheridge in a book about the U.S. Coast Guard. This is when Tucker learns when Etheridge lived and realizes that the man he met must be a ghost. From the book, Tucker learns that Etheridge was captain of the Pea Island Life-Saving Service, part of an early version of the U.S. Coast Guard, and that Eldridge was in charge of an all African-American crew that rescued hundreds of shipwrecked passengers (21). 
• All of the above

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