Fish in a Tree

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. Ally tries to deflect attention away from her learning difficulties in multiple ways in the story. Which of the following techniques does she not employ?

A) Distraction

B) Humor

C) Pretense

D) Violence

2. Which of the following statements explains Ally’s affinity for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

A) Ally thinks the events of the book are funny and inspiring.

B) Ally identifies with Alice and associates the book with her grandfather.

C) Ally’s mother read the book aloud to Ally and Travis when they were little.

D) Ally can read the book clearly and without difficulty, unlike the other books she encounters.

3. Which of the following best illustrates the theme of Persevering Through Struggles?

A) Ally solves the puzzle with the chicken, wolf, and grain.

B) Travis asks Ally about Mr. Daniels’s strategies.

C) Albert stands up to his bullies.

D) Keisha and Ally visit Albert’s home.

4. Ally explains her everyday challenges to Keisha through the example of riding a bike. This is an example of:

A) Onomatopoeia

B) Personification

C) Simile

D) Analogy

5. Which statement best describes Ally’s change of feelings towards Shay?

A) Ally goes from regarding Shay as her closest friend to completely cutting Shay out of her life.

B) Ally goes from being Shay’s worst rival to respecting her and being her ally during the class president elections.

C) Ally goes from fearing Shay and seeking her approval to not caring about her opinion and even pitying her.

D) Ally goes from compete indifference towards Shay to affection and empathy, looking for ways to help Shay.

6. How does Ally react when Mr. Daniels presents her with a poetry award?

A) She is thrilled and accepts the award enthusiastically.

B) She is indifferent and forgets the award in the classroom.

C) She is upset and runs out of the classroom.

D) She is anxious and immediately tries to appease Shay.

7. Why does Albert initially refuse to fight back against his bullies?

A) He is biding his time to take revenge.

B) He doesn’t believe in violence.

C) He is scared of getting hurt.

D) He doesn’t care about getting hurt.

8. What is Ally’s comparison of her friends and classmates to chess pieces an example of?

A) Irony

B) Allegory

C) Pun

D) Metaphor

9. What is implied by Ally not entering her “mind movie” about the future into her sketchbook by the end of the book?

A) She does not believe her vision to be impossible anymore.

B) She has lost interest in sketching and drawing after progressing with reading.

C) She is worried that the vision will not come true.

D) She wants to keep her vision of the future a secret from everybody.

10. Which is the correct order of events?

A) Ally learns to play chess; Ally becomes class president; Mr. Daniels becomes Ally’s new teacher; Travis agrees to take Mr. Daniels’s help

B) Mr. Daniels becomes Ally’s new teacher; Travis agrees to take Mr. Daniels’s help; Ally learns to play chess; Ally becomes class president

C) Mr. Daniels becomes Ally’s new teacher; Ally learns to play chess; Ally becomes class president; Travis agrees to take Mr. Daniels’s help

D) Ally becomes class president; Mr. Daniels becomes Ally’s new teacher; Travis agrees to take Mr. Daniels’s help; Ally learns to play chess

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. Before meeting Mr. Daniels, a number of factors prevent Ally from feeling capable and confident in her abilities. List any two factors and explain how they impact Ally.

2. Ally’s friendships with Keisha and Albert evolve over the course of the book. List two examples that demonstrate how Ally’s relationship with each of her friends has changed by the end of the story.