Transcript Bronze Unit Four Study Guide

Bronze Unit
Four Study
Guide
In “The Night the Bed Fell,” Aunt Gracie Shoaf’s
fears that burglars had been getting into the
house for forty years can best be described as
_____________________.
A summary of the following passage from “The
Night the Bed Fell” could be that the husband
_____________________that burglars are
invading the house every night
If you try to picture the following scene from
“The Night the Bed Fell,” you would use your
sense of ____________.
The room reeked of camphor.
 smell
The following passage from “The Night the Bed Fell” tells
the reader that Aunt Melissa Beall is _________.
Old Aunt Melissa Beall . . . suffered under the premonition that
she was destined to die on South High Street, because she had
been born on South High Street and married on South High
Street.

superstitious
The following passage, from “The Night the
Bed Fell,” is amusing because the mother was
talking about _____________________.
“He’s dying!” she shouted.
“I’m all right!” Briggs yelled to reassure her.
“I’m all right!”

Her husband, not Briggs
In “The Night the Bed Fell,” Thurber’s father decides that
sleeping in the attic is the best way “to be away where he
could think” because the household is so busy that
_____________________ where it is quiet.

the attic is the only place
Thurber appeals to the senses of _____________________ in
the following scene from “The Night the Bed Fell.”
Her frantic pulls on [the door] only added to the general banging
and confusion.

hearing, touch, and sight
You can assume after reading the following passage from “The
Night the Bed Fell” that the narrator tried to make Briggs
thinks he was asleep _____________________.
. . . I told him that I was such a light sleeper that if anybody quit
breathing in the same room with me, I would wake instantly. He
tested me the first night—which I had suspected he would—by
holding his breath after my regular breathing had convinced him I
was asleep.

by changing his breathing
In “The Night the Bed Fell,” Briggs Beall wakes up only
after the narrator’s cot collapses and the mother and
Herman shout for ten seconds. This tells us that
_____________________.

Briggs is a heavy sleeper
The dog contributes to the humor of the scene in “The Night
the Bed Fell” by _____________________.

barking and running around
The narrator’s _____________________and started
all the confusion in “The Night the Bed Fell.”

cot collapsed
The humor in the following passage from “The Night the Bed
Fell” is it was the mother’s habit of _____________________
that led to the whole scene.
“I’m glad,” said mother, who always looked on the bright side of
things, “that your grandfather wasn’t here.”

looking on the dark side of
things
The funny thing about the following passage from “The Night
the Bed Fell” is she seems to have forgotten that
_____________________.
(It was my mother who, in recalling the scene later, first referred to
it as “the night the bed fell on your father.”)

the bed never fell
You can infer from the following passage in “The Night the
Bed Fell” that the mother is _____________________too
much.
My mother opposed the notion strongly because, she said, the old
wooden bed up there was unsafe: it was wobbly and the heavy
headboard would crash down on father’s head in case the bed fell,
and kill him.

overprotective and worries
Thurber’s mother imagines her husband has been hurt by a
falling headboard because she has been _________________ in
the middle of the night.

awakened by a loud noise
The children are _____________________as “All
Summer in a Day” opens?

peering out the window
The message is conveyed by the following passage from
“All Summer in a Day” is even the trees on Venus feel
_____________________ by the constant rain.
A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and
grown up a thousand times to be crushed again.

oppressed
Margot is most like her classmates because
_____________________on that day.

wants to see the sun shine
The following passage from “All Summer in a Day” says
Margot is a _____________________ girl who is very pale.
She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the
rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes
and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair.

weak and delicate
The following passage suggests that the setting in “All Summer
in a Day” is the people live _____________________ where it
is easier to stay dry.
She felt them go away. And this was because she would play no
games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city.

underground
The following passage from “All Summer in a Day” suggests
that the other children _____________________ Margot
because she has experienced full days of sun.
And then, of course, the biggest crime of all was that she had come
here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun
and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in
Ohio. And they, they had been on Venus all their lives . . .

resent
In “All Summer in a Day,” when Margot refuses to shower in
the school shower rooms, screaming that the water mustn’t
touch her head, we can infer that she is __________________
because of the constant rain.

in danger of a mental breakdown
In the following passage from “All Summer in a Day,” it is
suggested that the sun _____________________.
“Oh, but,” Margot whispered, her eyes helpless. “But this is the day,
the scientists predict, they say, they know, the sun . . .”

briefly at predictable times
In “All Summer in a Day,” after Margot is locked in the closet,
the teacher asks, “Are we all here?” When the
children answer “Yes!” and the teacher doesn’t check any
further, we can see that the teacher is
_____________________ as the children about the possibility
of sunshine.

just as excited
The following passage tells the reader the setting of “All
Summer in a Day” is normally _____________________.
It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a
tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first,
gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling finally
and cutting off all noise . . .

very noisy
William show his disrespect for Margot by ________________
and telling her the sun __________________ going to shine.
shoving her around
 is not

The following passage from “All Summer in a Day” shows the
reader Venus is covered with _____________________.
The children lay out, laughing on the jungle mattress, and heard it
sigh and squeak under them, resilient and alive.

thick vegetation
In “All Summer in a Day,” when the children remember
where they left Margot, they feel ___________________.

guilty
In “The Highwayman,” _____________________ overhears the
conversation between the highwayman and Bess.

Tim the ostler
In “The Highwayman,” when the highwayman asks Bess to
wait, he is planning to _____________________.

commit a robbery
In “The Highwayman,” the details that help build suspense is
the fact that Bess hears the horse hoofs
_____________________.

Before the Redcoats do.
This pair of sentences about “The Highwayman” shows a
cause-effect relationship.
The highwayman ____________ a robbery. The redcoats
_____________________.
commits
 come to the inn

The line from “The Highwayman” that best contributes to the
feeling of suspense is _____________________ and near. Her
face was _____________________.
Nearer he came
 Like a light

In “The Highwayman,” the redcoats know that the
highwayman would be coming to see Bess because
_____________________ had told them.

Tim the ostler
In “The Highwayman,” the highwayman was hurrying back
toward the inn after hearing that Bess had died
because he wanted to get _____________________ against
those responsible for her death.

revenge
Some words that best summarize the main themes of “The
Highwayman”are _____________________.

love, betrayal, honor, and death
In “The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life,” the author says the
herds caused the hostility of the settlers toward the cowboys
because _____________________.

destroyed their crops
This sentence from “The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life”
creates suspense. He slid his _____________________across
the saddle in front of him and we did the same with our
_____________________.
Shotgun
 Winchesters

In “The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life,” Teddy Blue says the
cowboys sang to _____________________.

keep the cattle calm
Based on the following sentence from “The Real Story of a
Cowboy’s Life,” we can guess he was probably going to spend
a lot of money on _____________________.
After months in the saddle—often wearing the same clothes every
day, eating nothing but biscuits and beef stew at the chuck wagon,
drinking only water and coffee, his sole companions his fellow
cowboys, his herd, and his horse—the cowboy was about to be paid
for his work, and turned loose in town.

clothes, food, and fun
In “The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life,” what can we can infer
that the kind of person who chose the cowboy’s life had to
love animals, and know how to _____________________.

ride, shoot, and sing
What Felix is really saying to Tony in this passage from “Amigo
Brothers” is each one must fight his best and
not think _____________________.
“When we get into the ring it’s gotta be like we never met.
We gotta be like two heavy strangers that want the same
thing and only one can have it. You understand, don’tcha?”

about friendship
The following sentence based on “Amigo Brothers” is written
from the third-person point of view.
Thinking he saw Felix in a room at the far end of the corridor,
_____________________.

Antonio waved to him
The following passage from “Amigo Brothers” suggests that
Antonio knows Felix’s fighting style _____________________.
Antonio danced in carefully. He knew Felix had the habit of playing
possum when hurt, to sucker an opponent within reach of the
powerful bombs he carried in each fist.

very well
This passage from “Amigo Brothers” tells you the two fighters
are _____________________ and fighting their best .
A right to the head slowed Antonio’s pretty dancing. He answered
with his own left at Felix’s right eye that began puffing up within
three seconds.

fairly evenly matched
The sentence that is the best summary of “Amigo Brothers” is
Antonio and Felix, though _____________________, tried
their best to beat each other in a fair fight.

good friends
You can infer the speaker in “The Walk” feels the presence of
another person, even though the other
person_____________________.

is not there
The main point of “The Rider” is the physical exertion of
skating or bike riding can help you _____________________.

forget loneliness
Other information suggested by the following sentence from
“Justin Lebo” is a race is _____________________.
At every race, Justin and his father would adjust the brakes and
realign the wheels of his two racing bikes.

hard on a bike
The following sentence is written from the third-person point
of view.
They ______________the broken pedal, ________________down
a new seat, and ______________ the grips.



replaced
tightened
restored
From the following quotation, you can infer Justin is
a_____________and __________ person in “Justin Lebo,”
“When Justin was younger, say five or six,” says his mother, “he
used to give some of his allowance away to help others in need.”
sensitive
 generous

The following sentence from “Justin Lebo” suggests that Justin
is breaking down the donated bikes _______________.
Pyramids of pedals and seats rose in the corners. Soon bike parts
filled a toolshed in the backyard and then spilled out into the small
yard itself, wearing away the lawn.

into usable parts
From the following sentence from “Justin Lebo,” you can infer
that Justin Lebo Justin is a _____________________.
He has been careful to leave time for his homework, his friends, his
coin collection, his new interest in marine biology, and of course his
own bikes.

well-rounded person
The lesson the author of “Justin Lebo” is trying to teach is
that doing things for other people _____________________.

can be very rewarding
The following sentence is written from the third-person point
of view.
_____________________the ring doctor to check the fighters
out.

The referee signaled