My Favorite Chaperone Quiz

On a plot chart, Maya's mother giving her the bracelet happens in the ________________.

• exposition

• rising action

• falling action

• climax

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Which one of these events does NOT happen during the plot's rising action?

• Nurzhan receives a two-day suspension from school.

• Maya's parents say that she may go to the dance with her brother as her chaperone.

• Maya translates during the conference between her father and Mr. Shanaman.

• Maya's mother injures her ankle while working.

• Maya misses her gymnastics meet.

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Maya's problem or conflict, knowing she won't be given permission to go to the dance, is resolved in the __________.

• exposition

• falling action

• resolution

• climax

The story's setting takes place in America, after her family has immigrated from Kazakhstan. A story's setting is introduced in the plot chart's ________________.

• rising action

• exposition

• climax

• falling action

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Which statement best describes the main conflict in the story?

• Maya’s brother is being bullied at school.

• Maya’s family is struggling to earn enough money to live.

• Maya needs permission to go to a school dance.

• Maya has to do her mother’s job when her mother is injured.

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Why does Maya give an incorrect translation of what the principal says about Nurzhan’s fight?

• She wants to keep her father from becoming angry.

• She thinks Nurzhan was right to defend himself.

• She misunderstands what the principal says.

• She needs Nurzhan’s help to go to a dance.

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One reason Maya’s parents have stricter rules than her friends’ parents is that her parents

• have to work long hours at their jobs.

• expect her to do well in school.

• want her to set a good example for her brother.

• are from a country with different customs.

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Nurzhan helps to resolve the story’s conflict by

• saying that things are different in America.

• standing up to a school bully.

• signing Maya’s permission slip.

• offering to be Maya’s chaperone.

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What does Mama do to show that she understands that growing up in America will be different for Maya?

• She defends Maya when the family’s dinner burns.

• She gives Maya a special bracelet to wear to the dance.

• She treats Nurzhan and Maya differently.

• She insists that Nurzhan will be Maya’s chaperone.

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CCSS.W.8.9A

Select ALL of the following quotes that suggest Maya struggles in the US because she is an immigrant.

• "Since I left ESL, I often feel like I’m in the middle of a game where I don’t know the players, the rules, or even the object of the game."

• "Telling him he could never be a real American, making fun of the way he talked.”

• “Is this how you raise your daughter! Is this what you teach her? Lessons to be a toy for American boys!”

• "My fingers tingled with fear. What was wrong? What had I done? Mr. Walsh only comes for people when there’s trouble."

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