Question

1 tuesday
spirit week
1 it was spirit week at pine elementary, and each day, students participated in different theme days. on thursday, students were supposed to dress up as their favorite fantasy characters. cindy was only five years old, but she had always been fearless and usually preferred the villains over the main characters to heroes. so she chose to be ursula from the little mermaid.
2 her mother tried to get her to choose a character who wouldnt so scary, but cindy asserted her that ursula was who she wanted. mom got a dark blue kitchen chair and began to paint her face a light purple. she also painted with big blue and purple eyeshadow, and two red arched eyebrows. after mom placed a white wig on cindys head, she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror. cindy was so horrified that she screamed and cried for mom to take off the makeup and wig right away. mom just laughed and shook her head. she guaranteed cindy that it wasnt quite what it would be like to look like a villain. she had tried to warn her. maybe next time cindy would listen.
1 in paragraph 2, the word asserted means ______ (1 pt)
a. guaranteed
b. argued
c. ensure
d. affirmed
2 how was mom different from cindy in the story? (1 pt)
a. thought cindy looked scary
b. was curious to see which character the others would pick that day
c. wanted her to pick many characters
d. wasnt surprised by cindys reaction
a synonym is a word that has the same or almost the same meaning of another word. list 2 synonyms for the word scary (ex: petrifying)

Explanation:

1. For question 1: The context shows Cindy's mother tried to change her mind about the villain character. "Dissuaded" means to persuade someone not to do something, which matches "argued" in the options as the mother argued against Cindy's choice.
2. For question 2: Paragraph 2 states Mom laughed, shook her head, and let Cindy keep the makeup, showing she wasn't bothered by Cindy's reaction.
3. For the synonym task: "Scary" means causing fear, so two words with the same core meaning are selected.

Answer:

1. B. argued
2. D. wasn't bothered by Cindy's reaction
3. Frightening, terrifying