CHECKOUTS, BY CYNTHIA RYLANT
1. How did the girl feel about moving to Cincinnati?
-I think she felt depressed because she was leaving her friends and the place where she was already used to living.
2. Once she got to Cincinnati, what did she spend most of her time doing?
-Most of the time she was sitting in her room looking at photos.
3. What did she compare grocery shopping to?
-She compared them to Driving long country roads.
4. What feeling came to her only in the supermarket?
-Relaxed, because she felt like a Tibetan monk in meditation and that feeling only came to her when she was in the supermarket.
5. How did she fall in love with the bag boy?
-He dropped her jar of mayonnaise
6. What did the bag boy think that the girl thought of him when he broke the mayonnaise jar?
-That he was a fool.
7. What did the girl love about the bag boy?
-That he was clumsy and nervous.
8. After the mayonnaise incident, how long was it before they saw each other again in the store?
-They see each other again after 4 weeks.
9. Where did the two see each other, outside of the store?
-At the movies.
10. How did the two act when they finally saw each other again, at the movies?
-They glanced and smiled at each other.
11. What does the author say is often the way of children when they want a thing?
-This is often the way of children, when they truly want a thing, to pretend that they don’t.
12. Which POINT OF VIEW is the story told?
-Third person.
13. How many senses do we use to create IMAGERY?
-5 senses: hear, smell, taste, touch and see.
14. What is the irony in this story?
-That in the end they end up with different people and they see each other at the movies with their dates.
15. The line, “He felt like a Tibetan monk in solitary meditation" is an example of which figure of speech?
-Simile
16. Fill in the blank: And as an ____________ tore at her to lie on the floor, to hold to their ankles and tell them she felt she was dying…
a. Impulse
b. Brazen
c. Meditation
d. Deftly
17. Fill in the blank: She had a _________________ which told her that her parents were not safe for sharing such strong, important facts about herself.
a. Impulse
b. Brazen
c. Meditation
d. Deftly
By Laura Rodríguez,
The first in sending her answers.
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