Scars Quiz Review

How many children are in the family?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

What is the first thing not more important than doing chores according to the younger brother?

• Fighting in the yard

• Eating supper

• Going to school

• washing the station wagon

What was the second thing not more important than doing chores according to the younger brother?

• washing the station wagon

• Fighting in the yard

• Impressing the boss

• Going to school

Why do the brothers work in town?

• to save money for college

• They can no longer afford the farm

• They don’t like doing farm work

• All of the above

What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds?

• alliteration

• Assonance

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

Why are the lines about washing the car and doing chores written the way they are as one long, continuous thought.

• Because Twyla Hansen felt like it

• To give a tutorial on how to wash a car

• To stress their importance

• Because poems don’t use punctuation

When the writer indicates the boys are fighting for real this time, what emotion do we infer they’re feeling.

• Sadness

• Disgust

• Joy

• anger

A comparison using “like” or “as”

Where is the father in this poem?

• working in town

• He abandoned the family

• We don’t know

• Working on the farm

What is the speaker losing in this poem?

• farm and water

• Shelter and food

• Father and mother

• Brothers