Mock STAAR - Fiction - A Train Trip - Wagoner

By Mitchell Wagoner
Last updated over 6 years ago
6 Questions

What detail is left unresolved at the end of the selection?

The author most likely includes the anecdote about the bat in paragraph 9 in order to develop the theme of --

Read this sentence from paragraph 26: "The leather of my shoes felt insecure and slippery on the rungs." The author's use of the first-person point of view --

What is Jimmy's primary dilemma?

Read the dialogue in paragraphs 11 through 24. When considered with this dialogue, which sentence reveals that Jimmy is hiding his true feelings from his father?

In paragraph 9, the description of the kitchen serves to --