The Cay Comprehension Test Chapters 13-19

Timothy is afraid he'll come down with fever again, so _______.

• he teaches Phillip how to gather coconuts

• he shows Phillip where to find scallops

• he decides Phillip needs to learn how to fish by himself

• he performs a Voodoo protection spell

Why did Phillip feel he had "graduated" from a survival course?

• Timothy had taught survival courses in the past

• Timothy had been worried that something would happen to him, and Phillip would have to provide for himself

• Phillip had been pretending that he was in school taking a special class

• Phillip had climbed the tree for coconuts even though he was blind, proving that he had become independent

• Phillip had not seen Timothy for two months and had forgotten what he looked like.

• Phillip was just being racist.

• Phillip thinks Timothy is ugly. Earlier in the book in the book he says, "His face couldn't have been blacker, or his teeth whiter. They made an alabaster trench in his mouth, and his pink-purple lips peeled back over them like the meat of a conch shell.

• Phillips mother had told him that black people were "different" and she didn't want him hanging around them. Now that he has been spending time with Timothy. Phillip has learned that he is a good person; not at all what his mother had described.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Read the simile.

The sea, he told me, was as smooth as green jelly.

The author uses the simile to __________.

• compare the sea to what the smoothness green jelly would be like

• to stress the silence of the ocean meant that the upcoming storm was going to be fierce

• to explain how rough the waves were

• make the ocean seem real

Which detail from chapter 14 best shows that Timothy was not purposely trying to frighten Phillip about the violence of the storm?

• Even Stew Cat was nervous. He was around my legs whenever I moved.

• Nothing changed during the afternoon, although it seemed to get even hotter.

• He had good reason to be frightened himself. In 1928, he had been the only survivor from the d'HettiRedd.

• 'Dis be a western starm, I b'guessin'. Dey outrageous strong when dey come," he said.

... I could feel the rain, which was now jabbing into me like the punches of a nail.

Which literary device was used in the underlined part of the sentence?

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Personification

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

After the storm, Phillip recovers several items.

But the two small bars of chocolate that we had been saving for a "feast," were ruined. I had no taste for them anyway.

What does Phillip probably mean when he states that he has no taste for them anyway?

• Chocolate is not his favorite candy

• The storm affected Phillip's taste buds

• Phillip has never tasted chocolate before

• Phillip was mourning, and without Timothy he would not enjoy the chocolate

He was cradling his head in his arms, still making those small noises, like a hurt animal.

The author compares the small noises that Timothy was making to those of a hurt animal. He does this to emphasize that:

• Timothy wants to be playful with Stew Cat

• Timothy wants to keep Phillip cheerful

• Timothy is helpless and in pain

• Timothy doesn't want to be loud