Markovich Keeping Quilt

The Keeping Quilt

The following is a test of your knowledge of the story, The Keeping Quilt. There is also a part of this test that will assess your knowledge of the vocabulary words used in the story. Please follow all instructions printed in red.

First Name
Last Name
Today's Date	Example: 11/08/06

Strategy Focus: Evaluate

1. Did you like the way the author explains how her family traditions have been passed along over the years? Why or why not?

2. Why is the quilt important to the author?

Choose the best answer and click on the circle before it. Choose one.

3. Why does Anna's mother want to make a special quilt?

a. to have something to pass on to her grandchildren
b. so she can spend more time with the neighbor ladies
c. to help her family remember loved ones still in Russia
d. because she must use up all the old clothes in her basket

4. How does the author feel about her family?

a. She believes they should forget the past.
b. She thinks they are special.
c. She hopes they move back to Russia.
d. She does not want to share their story.

Read the following sentences and choose one correct answer by clicking on the arrow.

5. They cut out animals and flowers from the scraps of clothing.

What does the word scrap mean?

6. Anna's mother sewed a long thin strip of cloth around the outside of the quilt to make a border.

What is a border?

Compound Words

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