"The First Day" Reading Check Quiz

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6 questions
Note from the author:
Quick reading check quiz for the short story "The First Day."
1

Name one thing the mother has done to prepare her daughter for first day at school.

1

Why does the mother want her daughter to attend Seaton (the first school) rather than Walker-Jones (the second school to which they are sent)?

1

The girl's mother has to ask a woman for help once she gets to Walker-Jones. What does the mother have to ask for help with? Why must she ask for help?

1

At the end of the story, what sound does the daughter say she hears above everthing else?

1

What kind of narrator (first person, second person, third person) does this story have?

1

What does "darned mean? The story says, "I see where she has darned one of her socks the night before."