Combined: Package for Mrs. Jewls + A Package for Mrs. Jewls - HMH

Question 1

The student ____ the teacher with a silly joke.

Accepted Answer

interrupted

Question 2

How does the use of irony affect the passage?

Accepted Answer

it adds humor and surprise to the story

Question 3

What is the first important event in the story?

Accepted Answer

Louis starts cleaning up junk on the playground.

Question 4

The students ____ down the hallway because their backpacks were too heavy.

Accepted Answer

staggered

Question 5

The pizza maker was ____ the dough to make the pizza flat.

Accepted Answer

squashing

Question 6

The computer technician had one basic skill or ____ at the company.

Accepted Answer

specialty

Question 7

After I sat cross legged on the carpet for 30 minutes, my foot was ____ .

Accepted Answer

numb

Question 8

This story is told from the point of view of --

Accepted Answer

a third-person narrator

Question 9

Louis knocks on the classroom door with his --?

Accepted Answer

head

Question 10

The scientists ____ with the difficult experiment so make it work correctly.

Accepted Answer

struggled

Question 11

After an hard soccer practice, Mary ____ onto the bench in the gym because she was so tired.

Accepted Answer

collapsed

Question 12

Lisa held her stack of books steady when it _____ so it wouldn't fall over.

Accepted Answer

wobbled

Question 13

Louis is wrong when he believes that Wayside School students --?

Accepted Answer

hate to be interrupted when they are working

Question 14

Louis goes to Mrs. Jewls classroom by --?

Accepted Answer

climbing the stairs

Question 15

At the end of the story, Mrs. Jewls thanks Louis for --

Accepted Answer

helping her teach the students about gravity

Question 16

Louis' actions are important because they show that the story is --

Accepted Answer

absurd

Question 17

What causes Louis the most trouble in making sure that Mrs Jewls gets her package?

Accepted Answer

Mrs. Jewls' s classroom is on the top floor of the school.

Question 18

How does Mrs. Jewls solve the problem of letting Luis into the classroom?

Accepted Answer

She holds a spelling bee.

Question 19

Which of the following is a clue to know that the passage is written in third person point of view?

Accepted Answer

the use of pronouns like he, she, they, and character names

Question 20

I could not sleep at camp because the loud, noisy frogs kept ____ me at night.

Accepted Answer

disturbing

Question 21

Louis helps Mrs. Jewls receive her package by --?

Accepted Answer

telling the delivery person that he is Mrs. Jewls

Question 22

Paul couldn't see over the adult at the parade, so he ____ his position so he could see.

Accepted Answer

shifted

Questions 22