2. Stargirl Week 3 Review

3. Characters Write the character’s name that is being described.

4. A new, unique student at MICA high

5. Answer: Stargirl

6. An old wise man

7. Answer: Archie

8. An old wise cactus

9. Señor Saguaro

10. Stargirl’s best friend

11. Answer: Dori

12. Injured basketball player

13. Answer: Kovac

14. the man who gives Leo his first porcupine necktie

15. Uncle Pete

16. A imaginary person that Stargirl makes up to decide what normal kids would do.

17. Evelyn Everybody

18. The first person to approach Stargirl at the Ocotillo Ball.

19. Raymond Studemacher

20. The neighbor that Stargirl takes pictures of for a scrap book.

21. Peter Sinkowitz

22. Specific Story Details Provide specific story details for the following clues.

23. What does Stargirl do with loose change?

24. She drops it for kids to pick up.

25. What represents Stargirl happiness?

26. Her happy wagon.

27. If Stargirl only had one pebble in her wagon, would you say she was a) Sad b) Happy c) angry

28. Sad

29. What is the least amount of pebbles that Stargirl ever had in her happy wagon?

30. Two

31. When did Stargirl have the most pebbles in her happy wagon?

32. When she liked Leo and they were still close.

33. What does Stargirl do with the RoadRunner that upsets Leo so much?

34. She writes STARGIRL LOVES LEO On the Roadrunner.

35. Who is Susan?

36. Susan is Stargirl’s birth name. Stargirl decided to be normal so she started calling herself Susan.

37. How are Susan and Stargirl different? List 3 differences.

38. 1.Susan wears makeup 2.Susan wears designer clothes 3.Susan tries to fit in but makes mistakes like when she laughs. 4.Susan doesn’t eat anchovies because “nobody eats anchovies.”

39. Why did Susan feel like she absolutely had to win the oratorical contest? What did she think it would do for her?

40. She thought it would make her popular again.

41. What is the main conflict in this story?

42. Stargirl wants to be popular again but everyone believes she made the basketball team lose. They will never forgive her.

43. How did the oratorical contest actually turn out when Stargirl returned home?

44. She won the contest but no one was there to welcome her home except Dori Dilson and two teachers.

45. List one possible theme from this story.

46. Answers will vary but may include: Be true to yourself. Don’t try to change other people. Appreciate the people in your life. Don’t change because of other people.

47. The main problem was that Stargirl wanted to be popular. When was this problem resolved?

48. When she returned from the contest and no one was there. She stopped being Susan and went back to being Stargirl.

49. Why was this the climax of the story?

50. Because she solved her problem of being popular – she stopped trying and just was herself.

51. Why do you think that Susan went back to being Stargirl?

52. She wasn’t happy as Susan and she figured that since no one else liked Susan, she would make herself happy and be Stargirl again.

53. What happened at the Ocotillo Ball?

54. Everyone danced with Stargirl. Hillari slapped Stargirl.

55. Vocabulary: Period 2

56. “In my mind’s eye, I pictured her aiming her incredible zeal and energy exclusively at the Electrons.” What is the definition of the word zeal as used in this quote?

57. enthusiasm for a person, cause, or object

58. What is the word for a minor quarrel?

59. Tiff

60. What is the definition of Silhouette?

61. The outline or general shape of something

62. Vanished

63. Sprightly

64. Lively

65. Vocabulary: Period 4

66. Barren

67. Bleak or lifeless

68. Moa

69. Large extinct birds from New Zealand that were not able to fly

70. “Tension rose. Boys got antsy. Girls picked at their corsages. Ice shattered.” What is the definition of the word tension as used in this quote?

71. A state of unfriendliness between individuals or groups

72. Sentiment

73. thought or feeling intended to be conveyed by words, acts, or gestures

74. Occupies

75. To take or fill up

76. Vocabulary: Period 8

77. Cooed

78. To talk fondly or longingly

79. Metronomic

80. A sound that has a regular beaty pattern

81. Fictitious

82. Not genuine, False, fiction,

83. “In my mind’s eye, I pictured her aiming her incredible zeal and energy exclusively at the Electrons.” What is the definition of the word zeal as used in this quote?

84. enthusiasm for a person, cause, or object

85. Vocabulary: Period 9

86. Barren

87. Bleak or lifeless

88. Promenade “Stargirl seemed to float down the promenade in her buttercup gown.” What does the word promenade mean as used in this quote?

89. a march of guests into a ballroom constituting the opening of a formal ball

90. Badgered

91. Pester or nag

92. Dwindled

93. To make or become less

94. What should I study? Study guide Your previous Stargirl quizzes Choose a theme from the novel and be able to use details from the text to support it Be able to identify exposition, rising action events, the climax, falling action events, and the resolution Study the vocabulary Know who each character is

95. Love, Stargirl