90 pages 3 hours read

Priscilla Cummings

Red Kayak

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

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Reading Check, Multiple Choice & Short Answer Quizzes

Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Chapters 1-3

Reading Check

1. Who is Carl?

2. What is the name of the river Brady lives beside?

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following best describes Digger’s attitude towards the DiAngelos?

A) admiring

B) frightened

C) curious

D) bitter

2. Which of the following passages contains an example of foreshadowing?

A) “You’d never know that underneath [the river’s surface], the currents run so hard and so fast.” (Chapter 1)

B) “[Dad had] been working Mondays in the shop because he was making more money building cabinets than crabbing, especially now that crabs were getting scarce.” (Chapter 2)

C) “I recalled how we got kicked off the DiAngelos’ property and hoped it didn’t mean Mrs. DiAngelo would never ask me to baby-sit Ben again.” (Chapter 3)

D) "God, I hoped Mom wasn’t in a wreck. Or Dad—that Dad hadn’t buzzed a finger off in the workshop or something.” (Chapter 3)

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. How does Brady react when he sees the red kayak heading out into the river and why?

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