We Are Ready - The Open Door

7. The reader can tell this is a poem because

• it tells a story

• it contains rhyme

• it describes a place

• it is about an animal

8. How is the snow most likely DIFFERENT by the end of the poem?

• It is lit by lamplight.

• It looks like a carpet.

• It has paw prints in it.

• It has a fern growing in it.

9. Why does the author write that the cat's paws are unseen?

• The cat comes out only at night.

• The cat walks when no one is around.

• The cat's paws are covered with snow.

• The cat's paws are the same color as snow.

10. In "The Open Door," the black cat enters the house because

• it lives there.

• the door is not closed.

• the floor is not too cold.

• it wants to nap on the carpet.

11. In "The Open Door," the cat is going

• to play on a carpet

• to remain in the hallway

• to walk royally into the house

• to run quickly through the hallway

12. In "The Open Door" why does the author compare the cat's footprints to seeds?

• Both are cold.

• Both are small.

• Both are white.

• Both are quiet.

13. In "The Open Door," the snow is described as

• thin.

• seed.

• carpet.

• lamplight.

14. How does the picture MOST contribute to the poem? Choose two.

• It helps the reader understand in which city the poem is set.

• It illustrates how desperate the cat is to get out of the snow.

• It helps the reader better visualize what the cat's white paws would have looked like on the white snow.

• It helps the reader understand how long the cat was outside in the snow.

• It helps the reader envision how the lamplight illuminated a path for the cat.