
Warm Up #8 - RL.8.4
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8th Grade
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Monica Meadows
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By Monica Meadows
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Multiple Choice
Read this sentence from the passage.
“His mother, wearing a crazed smile, stood before him, banging her saucepans together with the destructive force of cannonballs hitting a battleship’s iron hull.”
In this description, the author shows that the mother…
has destroyed the saucepans by banging them together.
is banging the saucepans together extremely hard.
is doing her best not to scare Demetrius unnecessarily.
has gone crazy and will likely hurt somebody.
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Multiple Choice
What does the phrase “his heart pounding, racing to keep up with itself like an over-worked water pump” mean in paragraph 3?
Demetrius is aware of his heart beating before he is aware of the noise.
Demetrius only wakes up when he realizes his heart was racing.
Demetrius’s heart is beating quickly and feels out of control.
Demetrius’s heart is damaged when he is scared by the clanging pans.
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Multiple Choice
By describing Demetrius as a barnacle clinging to a battleship, the author shows that ...
Demetrius’s mother would like him to find a new place to sleep.
Demetrius is not moving away from the bed and being lazy.
Demetrius’s mother lets him sleep as late as he wants to.
Demetrius has decorated his room in an ocean-theme.
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