The Short Story: Difficulty with a Bouquet Quiz Worksheet Part I Last Name ____________________________________ Date ______________ First Name ____________________________________ Period 5 This part is due at the end of the period today! 1. Who is the author of this short story? ______________________ 2. Where did Seal get the bouquet? ______________________ 3. What does he finally do with the flowers? ______________________ 4. Why does Seal pick the flowers for Miss D? ______________________ 5. Who is Miss D? ________________________________________ 6. How does Seal fell about Miss D? ________________________________________ 7. What does the author mean when he speaks of Seal "stepping outside himself?" __________________________________________________________ 8. What does Seal think about this flower giving event when he "steps outside himself?" __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ 9. Why does Seal make the decision he does, about the flowers? __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ 10. He throws the flowers in the gutter because he thinks Miss D. might think what? __________________________________________________________ 11 .What does Miss D. see from her window? __________________________________________________________ 12. What is her first reaction? __________________________________________________________ 13. What is her second reaction? __________________________________________________________ 14. Write your own ending to the story, but this time Seal does bring the flowers to Miss D. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ 15. The author uses Interior Monologue (the characters 'talk to themselves]). How is this of use to this story? __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ 16. Has either Miss D's or Seal's conditions changed at the end of the story? __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ The Short Story: Difficulty with a Bouquet Quiz Worksheet Part II Last Name ____________________________________ Date ________________ First Name ____________________________________ Period 5 this part is due the next day (after part 1 is completed in class) Using Informal English Notice that Difficulty with a Bouquet makes use of Figurative Language and Idioms. Figurative Language might be looked upon as comparisons between different things to draw a picture in the mind: hard as a rock straight as an arrow the sun hammered at our heads teeth like pearl etc. Idiom on the other hand usually takes the forms of common sayings or expressions: know the ropes chip off the old block take with a grain of salt kept in the dark fight tooth and nail etc. Write a word or phrase that clearly illustrates the meanings of the phrases below: You might need help from a friend on these, or possibly a good dictionary. 1. pass out ___________________________________________ 2. fall in the drink ___________________________________________ 3. ringing up ___________________________________________ 4. bail out ___________________________________________ 5. bowled over ___________________________________________ 6. cook his goose ___________________________________________ 7. eat crow ___________________________________________ 8. in hot water ___________________________________________ 9. down in the dumps ___________________________________________ 10. in a brown study ___________________________________________ 11. tickled pink ___________________________________________ 12. steamed ___________________________________________ Write 5 other figurative or idiomatic expressions along with their true meanings: 1. ______________ ___________________________________________ 2. ______________ ___________________________________________ 3. ______________ ___________________________________________ 4. ______________ ___________________________________________ 5. ______________ ___________________________________________ READING VOCABULARY Here are some words from Difficulty with a Bouquet. Get a good dictionary and find a short definition you can write here. Then use the word in a sentence. You may use the sentence in the story if you like. 1. unassuming __________________________________________ sentence ______________________________________________________ 2. ulterior __________________________________________ sentence ______________________________________________________ 3. affectation __________________________________________ sentence ______________________________________________________ 4. aggrandizement __________________________________________ sentence ______________________________________________________ 5. bravado __________________________________________ sentence ______________________________________________________ 6. maudlin __________________________________________ sentence ______________________________________________________