Sick

Read the poem to answer the questions“I cannot go to school today,”Said little Peggy Ann McKay.“I have the measles and the mumps,A gash, a rash, and purple bumps.My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,I’m going blind in my right eye.My tonsils are as big as rocks,I’ve counted sixteen chicken poxAnd there’s one more – that’s seventeen,And don’t you think my face looks green?My leg is cut, my eyes are blue -It might be instamatic flu.I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,I’m sure that my left leg is broke -My hips hurt when I move my chin,My belly button is caving inMy back is wrenched, my ankle’s sprained,My ‘pendix pains each time it rains.My nose is cold, my toes are numb,have a sliver in my thumb.My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,I hardly whisper when I speak.My tongue is filling up my mouth,I think my hair is falling out.My elbow is bent, my spine isn’t straight,My temperature is one-o-eight.My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,There is a hole inside my ear.I have a hangnail, and my heart is – what?What’s that? What’s that you say?You say today is…Saturday?G’bye, I’m going out to play!”By Sil shelvertain 1. Which word is a synonym for wrenched? fixed injured not painful straight 2. Line 26 says, "My temperature is one-o-eight." What is the speaker trying to say? The speaker is sick with a high fever. The speaker needs medicine to get better soon. The speaker wants to go to school. 3. After reading the last stanza, the reader can conclude The speaker does not feel well and needs medicine. The speaker was pretending to be sick in order to miss a day of school. The speaker is happy to miss a day of school. The speaker is starting to feel sick and has to miss school. 4. What does the speaker realize at the end of the poem? The speaker realized that there was no school that day. The speaker realized that there was no school that day. The speaker was pretending to be sick when he actually was really sick. The speaker will get into a lot of trouble for lying. 5. Read line 7. This is an example of - Metaphor Alliteration Onomatopoeia Simile 6. Which line from the poem shows imagery? Line 30 Line 33 Line 1 Line 7 7. The poet wrote this poem - to entertain the reader with a nonfiction poem to entertain the reader with a humorous poem to entertain the reader with a free verse poem to entertain the reader with a limerick poem 8. Which of the following is true about this poem? The poem has no rhymes. The poem is a free verse poem. The poem has 4 stanzas and 32 lines. The poem has 32 stanzas and 4 lines. 9. Choose the correct answer. This poem is: fiction nonfiction 10. The reader can conclude that the main character - Dislikes getting sick and staying in bed all day Does not want to miss school Enjoys going to school and learning Does not enjoy going to school and wants to stay home