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Comprehension 

Directions: Read the following items and fill in the correct answer.  

1. How did Marisa feel about her aunt and uncle before the trip? 

 

2. Which sentence from the story BEST supports your answer from #1? 

 

 

3.Which of these is an opinion from the story? 

 

4.What did Marisa observe as they drove through Little Havana? 

 

 

Why didn’t Marisa want to wear the dress? 

 

Short Response 

 

Directions: Answer the questions using evidence from the text.Restate and use correct capitalization and punctuation. 

 

6.How did Marisa enjoy herself in Little Havana? (3 ways - use inferences) 

 

 

 

 7.Why did Marisa change her mind about wearing the yellow dress? 

 

 

 

8.How did the writer describe things Marissa saw, smelled, or heard in Miami? 

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary 

 

Directions: Write the definition for each vocabulary word.  

 

9.   parade 

 

10. ancestors 

 

11. peered

12. elaborate  

 

13. mingled   

 

14. muttered  

 

 

 

Grammar 

 

15. Every sentence needs 2 parts: _____________________ and _______________________. 

 

Directions: Oval 1, Textbox thesimple subjectin each sentence.  

 

16.Her friend washed the car 

 

 

 

17.The door is stuck 

 

 

 

18. Mr. Smallrunscross country. 

 

 

Directions: Underline the complete predicate in each sentence.  

 

20.James ran laps around the track.  

 

 

 

21. Melissaflewa giant kite.  

 

 

 

22. The dogjumped into a hole.