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Sandra Cisneros, Eleven

Sandra Cisneros, Eleven

Read Eleven and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. The narrator feels that when you are eleven,

your teacher should be extra nice to you.

you deserve to be trusted.

your classmates should be nice to you.

you are also ten, and nine, and eight—that each age you have been fits inside the next one.

2. Who placed the red sweater on the narrator’s desk?

The narrator

Phyllis Lopez

Sylvia Saldivar

Mrs. Price

3. The red sweater smells like

Phyllis Lopez.

cottage cheese.

baloney.

tacos.

4. When the narrator argues with Mrs. Price, she feels an overwhelming sense of injustice because

Mrs. Price enjoys punishing her.

the teacher is trying to wreck her birthday.

Mrs. Price is older and the teacher; she’s right and the narrator is not.

Mrs. Price prefers Phyllis Lopez to her.

5. The narrator knows that when she goes home, her family will wish her a happy birthday

and give her a new sweater to replace the one she lost.

and help her to forget her humiliating day at school.

and help her achieve justice with Mrs. Price.

—only it’s too late for a happy birthday.