Stargirl Textbook Questions

What mainly does the following line reveal about the narrator (paragraph 1)?

"I had to admit, the more I saw of her, the easier it was to believe she was a plant, a joke, anything but real."

• The narrator has a sense of humor.

• The narrator believes in aliens.

• The narrator initially is excited to meet Stargirl, but that excitement soon disappears.

• The narrator believes Stargirl might be faking her strangeness.

Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 1)?

"On that second day she wore bright-red baggy shorts with a bib and shoulder straps—overall shorts. Her sandy hair was pulled back into twin plaited pigtails, each tied with a bright-red ribbon. A rouge smudge applied each cheek, and she had even dabbed some oversized freckles on her face. She looked like Heidi. Or Bo Peep."

• Stargirl’s unusual style immediately makes her stand out from peers.

• The narrator wears the same makeup as Stargirl.

• The narrator is secretly jealous of Stargirl’s unusual style.

• Stargirl learned her unique sense of fashion from her parents.

Which of the following statements about the narrator is best supported by the following passage (paragraph 3)?

"As she approached our table, I thought: What if she’s looking for me? The thought terrified me. So I turned from her. I looked at Kevin. I watched him grin goofily up at her. He wiggled his fingers at her and whispered, “Hi, Stargirl.” I didn’t hear an answer. I was intensely aware of her passing behind my chair."

• The narrator dislikes Kevin.

• The narrator enjoys the spotlight.

• The narrator feels uncomfortable around Stargirl.

• The narrator wants Stargirl to be expelled because she is such a nuisance.

Which quotation from the excerpt best supports the idea that Stargirl does not typically pay attention to authority?

• “One day she asked a question about trolls—in U.S. History class.”

• “In her first meet, out in the middle of the course, she turned left when everyone else turned right.”

• “On the way to the next class they looked out the windows. Stargirl was still outside. In the rain. Dancing.”

• All of the above

Which of the following best expresses a theme of the passage below (paragraphs 7-10)?

“I’ll tell you one thing,” Kevin said as we joined the mob in the hallways, “she better be fake.” I asked him what he meant. “I mean if she’s real, she’s in big trouble. How long do you think somebody who’s really like that is going to last around here?” Good question."

• Stargirl won’t fit in at school if she truly is strange.

• Kevin believes Stargirl should stop pretending to be weird.

• The narrator is confused by Kevin’s comment.

• Stargirl has been planning to reveal her behavior has been an act all along.

Which sentence from the passage best expresses the central idea identified in Question 5?

• ‘I’ll tell you one thing,’ Kevin said as we joined the mob in the hallways, ‘she better be fake.’

• I asked him what he meant.

• ‘How long do you think somebody who’s really like that is going to last around here?’

• Good question.

Which conclusion is best supported by the ending of the excerpt (paragraphs 24-26)?

"Everything she did seemed to echo Hillari Kimble: She’s not real… She’s not real… And each night in bed I thought of her as the moon came through my window. I could have lowered my shade to make it darker and easier to sleep, but I never did. In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn’t the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert. It was during one of these nightmoon times that it came to me that Hillari Kimble was wrong. Stargirl was real."

• The narrator feels uncomfortable around Stargirl.

• The narrator has a change of heart and comes to believe in Stargirl’s sincerity.

• The narrator is more and more convinced that Hillari Kimble was right about Stargirl all along.

• Stargirl decides to end her ruse and act more normal.

Which passage best supports the correct answer to the Question 7?

• “Everything she did seemed to echo Hillari Kimble: She’s not real… She’s not real…”

• “And each night in bed I thought of her as the moon came through my window.”

• “I could have lowered my shade to make it darker and easier to sleep, but I never did.”

• “It was during one of these nightmoon times that it came to me that Hillari Kimble was wrong. Stargirl was real.”

Arrange events in the story in chronological order.

• Third

• Stargirl sings to Alan.

• Forth

• Kevin tells the narrator that Stargirl can't "survive" among the normal kids.

• First

• The narrator comes to believe that Stargirl is real and not a fake.

• Second

• The narrator states Stargirl looks like "Bo Peep."