Allied with Green Ms.Ransom

Why does Lucy choose to write about “the color green” for her paper?

• A Green plants are important to her.

• B Green is her favorite color.

• C She notices green things wherever she goes.

• D A drought has been threatening green plants.

Why does Lucy’s father feel guilty?

• A There are twice as many parking lots now as when he was in college.

• B He once demonstrated against highways, and now he drives on them.

• C He plants free trees in the highway medians, but people steal them

• D The palms he planted as a gift to a restaurant were stolen overnight

What does the author mean by the statement, “No one goes to Seattle to see the concrete.” (line 59)?

• A The buildings in Seattle are not very interesting.

• B Seattle is too far to travel just to see buildings.

• C People go to Seattle because there is a lot of green space there.

• D People don’t respect the attractions that Seattle has to offer.

Why does the author describe air and green as “close cousins” (line 77)?

• A Both are threatened by pollution.

• Both are necessary for life

• C People take both for granted.

• D Both need tending

People go to an arboretum to see

• A trees

• B buildings.

• C potted plants.

• D fruits and vegetables.

An obituary is a public notice that someone has

• A won an award.

• B married

• C died.

• D started a business

Imagery is

• A.personification

• B.painting a picture

• C. words and phrases that appeal to the senses—to

  help readers imagine how things look, feel, smell, sound, and taste.

• D. comparing two unlike things using like or as.

Theme of a story is

• A. the main idea of the story

• B. tells the reader information about the story

• C.the sequence of main events that happens in the story.

• D.is a message about life or human

  nature.

Style is the authors

• A. point of view

• B. the reason the author writes.

• C. elements of a story

• D. is his or her manner of writing—how something is said

  rather than what is said—and it often corresponds to the genre of the writing.

Personification is

• A. a comparison of two unlike things

• B. giving non human objects human qualities

• C. an exaggeration

• D. loud expression