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Reading Test Study Guide: Thunder Rose Re-read the story and use your book to answer the

questions. Please answer all questions with complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper. Keep all answers in your reading folder and have it ready to turn in on Friday morning. This is a homework grade! Please answer each question with complete sentences. 1. What is pitch? Now, name three things that would be the color of pitch. 2. What are veins? 3. When someone does something daintily how are they moving? 4. What does it mean to have a new house constructed? 5. When cows, sheep, and pigs are branded, what has happened to them? 6. When the thieving men were caught, why where they put in jail? 7. When the tornado came through the city it caused a lot of devastation. What does this mean? 8. Why did Rose lasso the outlaws? 9. Why did Rose catch hold of the clouds? 10. What is a word that best describes Thunder Rose? 11. Why was the lullaby that Thunder Roses parents sang so important? 12. What happened after Rose took the outlaws to the sheriff? 13. In this story, what is the authors main purpose? 14. What is the theme of this story? 15. In the story, Rose asked, Is this the fork in the road with which I have my final supper? What does this mean? 16. How are Rose and her pa alike? 17. Why is the setting of the Old West important to the story? Short answer/essay questions 18. At birth, how was Rose different from other newborn babies? 19. How did Roses parents feel about having such an unusual child? 20. What is something that Tater and the windstorms had in common?

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