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Activity #4- Chapters 19, 20, and 21 Comprehension Questions

Common Core Standards
1) Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.(RL 5.1)
2) Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and
orally. (SL 5.2)
3) Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5
topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly. (SL 5.1)

Chapter 19: Only Ignorance

1. Who is Mr. Bond?
2. What is draught? (Read on to find the context clue!)
3. Who sat with Black Beauty?
4. Who feels guilty for what is happening to Beauty?
5. What advice does Tom give to John?
6. What does John mean when he says, I am sore myself?
7. What does Tom mean when it was only ignorance?
8. How does John react to Toms claim that it was only ignorance?
9. What is direct characterization?
10.
What is indirect characterization?
11.
The answer to question #8 is direct or indirect characterization? Explain.
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12.
What did Martha do that was so bad?
13.
How did Black Beauty feel in the morning?

Chapter 20: Joe Green

14.
Did Squire Gordon ever trust Joe again?
15.
What did Joe get to do that he never gets to do?
16.
What does flogging mean?
17.
How does the man with the stuck cart make you feel and why?
18.
Why do you think Joe started galloping the horses to Mr. Clays house?
19.
What is a magistrate? Use context clues to help you figure it out.
20.
Why is it important to clean out a horses hooves after driving them if you
already did it before you went somewhere?

21.

What was the effect of Joes testimony against the cart driver?

22.

Joe is a brave person. Give two specific details from the chapter that support

that claim.

Chapter 21: The Parting

23.
What is it called when the author gives hints or clues to future events in the
book?
24.
Give one example from this chapter that is classified as the term you
answered in question #23.
25.
What did the doctor instruct the Gordon family to do?
26.
Why would these instructions help the family?
27.
How long was Black Beauty at the Gordons plantation?
28.
Who did Squire Gordon sell Black Beauty to?
29.
Who was also sold to go with Black Beauty?
30.
What does low-spirited mean?
31.
What does John decided he wants to try to do now that he does not have a
job?
32.
What is the mood of this chapter?
33.
Give three specific examples from the text that helped you determine what
the mood was.