Based on the details in the play, what can the reader infer about Rumple Skinny Stilts?
Question 2
2.
Read line 3.
What does this line suggest?
Question 3
3.
Read line 5.
What is the most likely reason Rumple Skinny Stilts asks Barbara this question?
Question 4
4.
Which line from the play suggests that Rumple Skinny Stilts is beginning to realize that Barbara might be able to win the challenge?
Question 5
5.
Read this stage direction from line 12.
What does this stage direction suggest about Rumple Skinny Stilts?
Question 6
6.
What does the word rumpled mean in line 9?
Question 7
7.
Question 8
8.
What is the best summary of the selection (lines 1-12)?
Question 9
9.
What change should be made in sentence 2?
Question 10
10.
The author has included an unnecessary sentence. Which sentence should be deleted?
D. He is happy that Barbara answered the first question correctly.
D. Barbara does not understand the challenge.
C. He told Barbara his name, and he wants to see if she remembers it.
D. He does not think Barbara knows his name.
D. (angrily) Um, well, yes.
C. He was hurt by the spinning wheel.
D. He realizes that Barbara has won the challenge.
D. Cluttered
The reader can tell that “Rumple Skinny Stilts” is a play because it has -
Select TWO correct answers.
a main character
acts and scenes
a problem that is resolved
stage directions
D. The king tells Barbara that she must spin straw into gold three nights in a row, or he will send her family away to live in the woods. She is sad because she does not know how to complete the task.
