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TEKS Grade 8 ELA - Holistic Quiz 2

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Grade 8
ELA (2017)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

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Grade 8
ELA (2017)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

110.24.b.9.f
110.24.b.9.e
110.24.b.5.f
110.24.b.9.d
110.24.b.8.a
110.24.b.7.c
110.24.b.7.a
110.24.b.9.b

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  • Q1
    What kind of tone does Max use throughout the passage?
    formal
    somber
    excited
    casual
    30s
    110.24.b.9.f
  • Q2
    Which sentence best conveys Max's tone?
    "But he wasn't in the playroom with us every day, just now and then he'd show up."
    "Gram and Grim, bless their pointed little heads, they're my mother's people, her parents, and they figured whoa! better put this little critter with other little critters his own age, maybe it will improve his temper. "
    "Gram and Grim always called me Maxwell, though, which is supposed to be my real name, and sometimes I hated that worst of all. "
    "Then for a long time I never saw Freak anymore, one day he just never came back to day care."
    30s
    110.24.b.9.f
  • Q3
    What point of view is this passage mostly in?
    2nd person
    3rd person omniscient
    3rd person
    1st person
    30s
    110.24.b.9.e
  • Q4
    What does Max mostly likely mean when he says "I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while"?
    Freak did most of the thinking for the two of them.
    Max became instantly smart when he met Freak.
    Freak loaned Max some books.
    Freak was in charge of Max's life and choices.
    30s
    110.24.b.5.f
  • Q5
    "I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while" is an example of --
    metaphor
    simile
    personification
    tone
    30s
    110.24.b.9.d
  • Q6
    What does Max's description of Freak at daycare show about what Max first thought about Freak?
    Max thought Freak was really weird.
    Max thought Freak was intimidating and mean.
    Max was too afraid to get near Freak.
    Max admired Freak's crutches and leg braces.
    30s
    110.24.b.5.f
  • Q7
    Max describes Freak's robot noises with, "Rrrr...rrr...rrr...rrr." What literary device is used here?
    alliteration
    onomatopoeia
    analogy
    juxtaposition
    30s
    110.24.b.9.d
  • Q8
    Grim saying that Max was "exploding out of his shoes" is an example of --
    characterization
    mood
    metaphor
    hyperbole
    30s
    110.24.b.9.d
  • Q9
    What genre does this text most likely fit into?
    non-fiction
    science fiction
    historical fiction
    realistic fiction
    30s
    110.24.b.8.a
  • Q10
    Which of the following is an example of foreshadowing in the passage?
    But he wasn't in the playroom with us every day, just now and then he'd show up. Looking sort of fierce, is how I remember him.
    It's more than just the way Maxwell Resembles him, Grim says that night in the kitchen, the boy is like him, we'd better watch out.: you never know what he might do while we're sleeping. Like- his father did.
    Maybe it was those crutches kept me from lashing out at him, man those crutches were cool. I wanted a pair for myself.
    That barefoot summer when I fell down a lot, and the weirdo robot boy with his white-yellow hair and his weird fierce eyes moved into the duplex down the block with his beautiful brown-haired mom, the Fair Gwen of Air.
    30s
    110.24.b.7.c
  • Q11
    Based on this passage, what can we predict will be theme in this story?
    family
    jealousy
    doing the right thing
    community
    30s
    110.24.b.7.a
  • Q12
    Which literary device does the author use to help the reader get to know the characters?
    symbolism
    irony
    mood
    indirect characterization
    30s
    110.24.b.9.e
  • Q13
    What can we infer about Max's father from this excerpt: "Grim out in the kitchen one night, after supper whispering to Gram had she noticed how much Maxwell was getting to look like Him? Which is the way he always talked about my father, who had married his dear departed daughter and produced, eek eek, Maxwell. Grim never says my father's name, just Him, like his name is too scary to say."
    Grim and Gram don't reveal anything about Max's father in this passage.
    Grim and Gram hold an unfair grudge against Max's father.
    Grim and Gram are concerned that Max will do something horrible like his father did.
    Max's father is a scary looking man.
    30s
    110.24.b.5.f
  • Q14
    What about this passage shows that it is the exposition of the novel?
    The main problem is introduced
    The main character is narrating the story
    It gives background information and introduces the characters
    The reader is told the time period of the story
    30s
    110.24.b.9.b
  • Q15
    What changes about the passage when Max says, "Are you paying attention here? Because you don't even know yet how we got to be Freak the Mighty"?
    The exposition of the story has ended.
    The story moves from the exposition to the climax.
    The point of view changes from first to second person
    Max changes from a subjective narration to an objective narration.
    30s
    110.24.b.9.e

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