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THE WATERFALL
QUESTIONS

Answer the following questions on a sheet of paper:


  1. When does the story take place?
  2. What were the banks lined with?
  3. What did they do to avoid the poison oak?
  4. How did they balance their backpacks?
  5. Where did the family set up camp? 
  6. The waterfall was described as higher than? 
  7. What glowed in the roaring mist?
  8. What did the boy say he’d like to climb?
  9. How did the boy finally fall asleep?
  10. What did they find in the morning?
  11. What were the tracks from?
  12. How did this news make the boy’s heart feel?
  13. The sun was hot as a:
  14. What kind of leaves did they cut?
  15. What did they use the leaves for?
  16. What did the boy tell his brother when he said, “I’m scared”?    
  17. What did they boys do as they stood at the top (1)  (2) (3)
  18. How did the boy feel when he saw his parents?
  19. It was a shout of?
  20. The boys compared a piece of driftwood to a?
  21. The boy saw the driftwood as a kind of?
  22. What did the dad say about the boy being able to take it home? 
  23. Where does the driftwood stand now?
  24. The driftwood was named “The 
  25. What does the driftwood remind the boys of?
  26. The illustrator’s name is?
  27. The author’s name is?
  28. Is this story fiction or non-fiction?