Go Deep To The Sewer/Fly Away
17 Questions
| Total Attempts: 52
Literature test
Questions and Answers
- 1.Where does the story Go Deep to the Sewer take place?
- A.
In a town in the countryside In a small country town
- B.
In the middle of a large city
- C.
In London
- 2.The author, __________________, remembers his childhood games.
- 3.Explain what the author meant when he said, "The essence of childhood, of course, is play.
- 4.The author's mother watched her son play on the streets from her window.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.What game does the author talk about first?
- A.
Baseball Baseball
- B.
Stickball
- C.
Football
- 6.Describe what qualities a quarterback had to have to be chosen for that position.
- 7.Each of the games the author and his friends played began with a review of the __________.
- 8.The author and his friends often played on the streets until the light began to fade and the ball became a blur in the dusk.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.What is a spaldeen?
- A.
A football
- B.
A pink rubber ball
- C.
A game kids played on the streets
- 10.Explain what the author meant when he said, "Junior hit a two sewer shot and was running toward what should have been third when third suddenly drove away in first.
- 11.What does the director's assistant ask Hefler to do?
- A.
To provide 5,000 trained flies for a movie scene
- B.
To provide 5,000 extras for a movie scene
- C.
To provide lunch for 5,000 extras on a movie set
- 12.Define the following word:skepticalThe skeptical assistant director yelled for the "fly man."
- A.
Confident
- B.
Doubting; questioning
- C.
Stark
- 13.Hefler does not get the flies from a Dr. Jonathan Ziller, an entomologist and researcher.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.How many flies did Hefler tell the director he actually had?
- A.
5,000
- B.
10,000
- C.
10,042
- 15.Explain what Hefler put in the fly house before scooping out the flies on "the thing."
- 16.The director was so impressed with Hefler's ability to make the flies wake up on cue, that he told him_________________.
- A.
Next time I need a trained anything, I am going to call you
- B.
Next time I need flies I am going to call you
- C.
Next time I am in town, I am going to call you up for lunch
- 17.Choose on the stories and explain what you learned.
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