Questions to Accompany the Book Dirt

The author of the book Dirt is

• Denise Gosliner Orenstein

• Percy Jackson

• Dr. Earl Jenkins

• Bob Johnson Jr.

The main character in this story is a little boy.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Reorder the following

• My father

• once explained

• named me

• that they

• Yonder.

Yonder was sad because her _______had died.

Answer explanation

Her mother had died four years ago.

Yonder had an unusual childhood disorder following the death of her mother. What was it?

• She stopped speaking.

• She had asthma.

• She had red hair.

• She had one eye.

Yonder attended school at ​ (a)   MIddle School.

• Robert Frost
• George Washington
• Robert Johnson
• Irving Washington

The writer used the following simile or comparison: "..my arms wound around my khaki jacket like a four-armed octopus, determined not to let anyone get my goat. I found it helpful to remember that an octopus has three whole ​ (a)   -if one was ever ​ (b)   , there'd be another two to ​ (c)   back on."

• hearts
• broken
• fall
• stomachs
• sit

​ (a)   ​ (b)   was the disgusting, short and stumpy, shaved head little boy that Yonder had known since kindergarten.

• Haywood
• Prune
• Hillbilly
• Jenkins
• Roy
• Junior

At the beginning of the book, Yonder ran into trouble at her locker when she discovered her _________had been covered in glue and pen ink.

• gym shorts

• shirt

• back pack

• locker door

Principal Flint ​ (a)   Yonder for the gym shorts incident. So Yonder stopped going to school for the entire ​ (b)   .

• suspended
• week
• congratulated
• day
• whipped
• month