eleven

According to Rachel, when do you feel "smart eleven"?

• not until you're almost twelve

• not for a few days

• in a few weeks

• in about two months

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Rachel starts to cry because

• she isn't able to explain that the sweater isn't hers

• she wants to be three years old again

• she feels like she is invisible

• her birthday party is that night

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CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

At the end of the story, Rachel feels

• sad about her birthday

• happy about being eleven

• scared of going to school

• angry with her parents

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

How does Rachel say that you feel when you turn eleven?

• ready to act like a grownup

• smarter and older than your friends

• old enough to talk with adults

• as though you have other ages inside you

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CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

What does Rachel mean by "it's too late" in this sentence from "Eleven"? "There'll be candles and presents and everybody will sing happy birthday, happy birthday to you, Rachel, only it's too late"

• She already knows about the party, so it won't be a surprise.

• She feels too sad to invite her classmates to the party.

• The party won't matter because her day has been ruined.

• Her birthday party will take place very late at night.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"...like a part of me that's three wants to come out of my eyes, only I squeeze them shut tight and bite down on my teeth real hard..." What is the narrator struggling to do in the line above?

• struggling to not cry

• struggling to be quiet

• struggling to not hit her teacher

• struggling to be still

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

Why does Mrs. Price give the sweater to Rachel?

• Mrs. Price finds the sweater near Rachel's desk.

• The sweater matches Rachel's clothes

• Sylvia says that the seater belongs to Rachel.

• Rachel has been an impolite students.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

What did Rachel mean when she said, "that when you're eleven, you are also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one."

• Rachel means that you're still a child and not a grown-up.

• Rachel means that the years in your life go by fast.

• Rachel means that even though you're eleven, you still act all your other ages because of how you feel about certain things.

• Rachel means that she does not want to grow up.

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.4

What does Rachel infer as to why nobody claims the red sweater when Mrs. Price asks, "Whose is this?"

• Nobody wants to say it is theirs because it was so ugly.

• Nobody wants to say it is theirs because it is too big for any eleven year old.

• Nobody claims the sweater because they hate the color red.

• Everyone believes the sweater must belong to someone from another classroom.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

Which one of the following phrases about growing old is not a simile?

• Growing old is like an onion.

• Growing old is like the rings inside a tree trunk.

• Growing old is a 100 meter race in the Olympics.

• Growing old is like little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4