The Black Widow
  • 1. What was the author's name?
A) Niki
B) Jennifer
C) Samantha
D) Mom
  • 2. Niki was the author's ...
A) sister
B) friend
C) cousin
D) brother
  • 3. The author was what type of sleeper?
A) a sleepwalker
B) a light sleeper
C) a sound sleeper
D) a snorer
  • 4. When the author suggested that she was going to sleep outside
A) she expected her mother to say it was fine
B) She thought that her mother would say something against the idea
C) she was excited
D) she expected Niki to join her
  • 5. What was different about sleeping outside?
A) the girls didn't sleep at all
B) they slept for many, many hours
C) the author snored
D) Niki didn't snore
  • 6. What wasn't an effect of the spider bite?
A) Niki's arm hurt
B) Niki's arm swelled up
C) Niki's fingers became blue and numb
D) Niki became very sick and threw up
  • 7. Why was the author blaming herself for Niki getting bit?
A) because the author's pet spider escaped and bit Niki.
B) because she had Niki sleep next to a spider's web knowing that there was a good chance she would get bit.
C) because although she didn't know aobut the webs in the flower bed, she should have been more tolerant about Niki's snoring.
D) because she knew that there were webs in the flower bed and she thought she should have been more tolerant of Niki's snoring.
  • 8. Leaving the doctor's office how did the author feel?
A) She was doubtful about what the doctor said.
B) She was 100% sure that Nikki would die.
C) She was 100% sure that Niki would be okay.
D) She was so upset that she was vomitting.
  • 9. Why did Niki say that she "wanted to be brave" like the author?
A) because they both were doing something for the first time.
B) because she thought sleeping outside was scary and was impressed that the author was going to do it.
C) because the author had been bitten by a spider in the past and she wanted to recover like her.
D) because they both had survived bites from dangerous animals.
  • 10. Why was Niki famous?
A) because she was the first person in their town to be bitten by a black widow.
B) because she snored louder than anyone.
C) she proved to everyone that people can survive being bitten by a black widow.
D) because she was the author's relative.
  • 11. What is venom?
A) sugan
B) pus
C) blood
D) poison
  • 12. How often do people die from spider bites?
A) never
B) all the time
C) often
D) rarely
  • 13. What do you think will happen to the girls in the story?
A) they will never talk again
B) they will talk sometimes, but never see each other again.
C) they will probably visit eacher other again during another summer.
D) they will live together forever
  • 14. What do you think the moral of the story is?
A) myths aren't always true
B) never try to get revenge
C) spiders are evil
D) blood is thicker than water
  • 15. What is something you could have learned from the story?
A) that sleeping outside cures snoring
B) that people from Chicago are really strong
C) that black widow spiders are deadly
D) spiders have poison to protect themselves from other insects and for using it to kill to get food.
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