Lucinda's Secret Chapters 1-3
Multiple-choice exercise
Choose the correct answer for each question.
Thimbletack had done each of the following pranks except ______.
- cut Jared's eyelashes
- put glue on Jared's toothpaste
- filled Jared's shoes with mud
- urinated on Jared's pillow
The water from the tap tasted ___________.
- salty
- muddy
- like fire
- oily
Simon fixed ___________ for Bryon, the griffin to eat.
- steak and potatoes
- cabbage and broccoli
- chicken and worms
- hamburger meat and cereal
Aunt Lucinda was living ____________.
- in an asylum
- with her sister
- in an old folks home
- with Melvina
Luncinda gave the Grace children ______________ for Thimbletack.
- Sprite vegetables that looked like red peas
- directions for finding the Guide
- a set of toy soldiers
- a bag full of silvery jacks, stones, and clay marbles
What happened to Arthur Spiderwick?
- He went out for a walk one day and never came back.
- He died when Lucinda was a small girl.
- He fell in love and moved to Chicago to get married
After Lucinda ate the small red fruit, _______________.
- she could see the sprites without the seeing stone
- regular food tasted like sawdust and ashes
- she fell into a deep sleep like Sleeping Beauty
Melivina put Lucinda into the hospital because she thought _____________.
- Lucinda was too old to take care of herself
- Lucinda fell and broke her hip
- Lucinda was cutting herself
- Lucinda was talking crazily
When Jared took the Field Guide out of his backpack, ______________-.
- the sprites flew off with it
- it was really a cookbook
- the goblins came through the window
- the hospital shook
Which of the following contains a cause-effect relationship?
- Aunt Lucy looked at him with dawning horror.
- Her hands were shaking, even as she clasped them in her lap.
- "Of a fashion," she said with a strange smile.
- At the sound of the name the man scowled.
Read this sentence from Lucinda's Secret.
One night the faeries brought me a piece of fruit - just a little thing - the size of a grape and red as a rose.
Which type of figurative language is used in the sentence?
- onomatopoeia
- simile
- metaphor
- repetition
The old woman looked at the plate as though it were piled with cockroaches.
This sentences implies.
- Lucinda was not hungry.
- The cookies on the plate looked like little bugs.
- Lucinda thought the cookies did not look appetizing.
- The cookies were stale.