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Pinnacle December MT Review

  •  English    48     Public
    Literature
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  • Protect
    keep someone or something safe from harm
    worried or frightened about something
    to move your hand or arm to show what you mean
    to annoy someone
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  • convenience store
    the state of being urgent
    a shop where you can buy food
    a part of a whole
    feeling full of shame or embarrassment
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  • nervous
    feeling full of shame or embarrassment
    worn-out or dull from fatigue
    having a rough sound because of illness
    worried or frightened of something
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  • urgency
    dim or blurred, as the eyes or vision
    pressing necessity or importance
    a shop where you can buy food
    a part of a whole
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  • ashamed
    worried or frightened about something
    feeling full of shame or embarrassment
    worn-out or dull from fatigue
    having a rough voice from illness or too much use
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  • gestured
    to annoy someone
    to keep someone or something from harm
    to divide or give out parts of something
    to move your hands to show what you mean
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  • portion
    pressing necessity or importance
    a shop where you can buy food
    dim or blurred, as the eyes or vision
    a part of a whole
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  • bleary
    feeling full of shame or embarrassment
    having a rough sound because of illness or use
    dim or blurred, as the eyes or vision
    worried or frightened about something
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  • pester
    to move your hand to show meaning
    to divide or give out parts of seomthing
    to keep something or someone safe from harm
    to annoy someone
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  • hoarse
    worried or frightened about something
    having a rough sound because of illness or use
    feeling full of shame or mebarrassment
    dim or blurred, as the eyes or vision
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  • Why does Willie want to talk to the man on the street?
    He wants to find out why he is unhappy
    He thinks the man might know his father
    He is a disobedient child
    He wants to discover if the man will lend him money
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  • What about WIllie worries Mrs. Markham?
    the information he learn sin school
    the amount of cake he eats in one sitting
    his fear of fish that live in caves
    his many questions and doubts
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  • Which event reveals the greatest change in Willie's character?
    he learns about a type of fish that lives in caves
    he learns what a human needs by the homeless man
    he recognizes that his mother is right about strangers
    he begins to do his homework when his mother tells him
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  • Who is the "fish" in the story?
    the homeless man
    Willie
    Willie's mother
    Willie's father
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  • Why does the homeless man disappear?
    he finds a job and goes away on his own
    Mrs. Markham yells at him to go away
    Mrs. Markham calls the police to make him go away
    he is a wanderer and goes off for an adventure
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  • What is the author's main purpose for writing "What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?"
    to persuade
    to inform
    to teach a lesson about life
    to analyze a historic event
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