The Magic Glasses

Read the following sentences.

“I can’t find my glasses,” replied Violet, shyly. The rest of the students looked up from their books and started to laugh.

When Violet found the brown specs behind her desk, she quickly put them back onto her face. What is specs?

• boots

• glasses

• pencils

The day after her glasses had fallen to the floor, Violet’s mother took her

to the eye doctor. They did all sorts of tests to see whether she needed a

new prescription.

          What does prescription mean?

• a written or spoken that says what happens in an event

•  a piece of writing that gives details about what someone or something is like.

• a particular medicine or treatment ordered by a doctor for a patient

Violet visits the eye doctor after her glasses break. What happens when she visits the eye doctor?

• She refuses to do eye test.

• She breaks her new pair of glasses.

• The doctor gives medicines for her eyes.

• She gets a new pair of glasses.

Violet hated her old glasses.

What sentence from the story provides a clue about why Violet feels this way?

• Violet couldn’t see things that were far away from her, but she also had trouble reading.

• Violet still had three months left of school, and that meant three more months of being made fun of because of her silly loose glasses.

• It was raining hard, and Violet wouldn’t have gone outside iif her father weren’t coming to take her to the movies.

• Violet started to focus on the poodle, and she could have sworn she saw the pet roll its eyes and shake its head.

When in the story does Violet want to wear her glasses?

• at the beginning of the story

• in the middle of the story

• at the end of the story

• at the beginning and end of the story

How does Violet feel about her glasses at the end of the story?

• angry

• upset

• sad

• excited

Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.

    Violet puts on her new glasses _______ her dad asks where they are.

• after

• before

• although

• like

What is this story mainly about?

• a girl whose feelings about wearing glasses change after she gets a

  new pair that lets her see facial expressions on animals

• a girl who go on a trip to the eyes doctor with her mother and to the cinema with her father

• a pair of glasses that slide down to the tips of a girl’s nose

• a pair of broken glasses that a girl has to hold against her face

“Violet has always worn glasses, for as long as she could remember.

Being ten years old, it was possible she’d had been wearing them for

ten years. Maybe she was born with glasses!”

          Why does the author write, “Maybe she was born with glasses!”?

• The author is making jokes to show readers how long Violet feels

  like she has been wearing glasses.

• The author is describing what Violet felt like the day she was born.

• The author is including a detail that what it would be like to have

  the name “Violet”.

• The author is writing a summary of all events in the story.

If you were Violet, would you feel the same as Violet about the old

glasses and the new glasses? Why?