Q 01/05

Which teacher, honored in the title of a Patricia Polacco picture book, first noticed she could not read?

A) Mr. Falker

B) Mr. Lincoln

C) Mrs. Mack

D) Mr. Sussman

Answer · why

A) Mr. Falker

Mr. Falker stopped the classmates who teased her and brought in a reading specialist to help. Polacco thanked him decades later with the 1998 book Tha...

Q 02/05

Which condition, finally diagnosed when she was 14, had kept a young Patricia Polacco from keeping up at school?

A) Hearing loss

B) Dyslexia

C) Poor eyesight

D) A stutter

Answer · why

B) Dyslexia

Dyslexia went unnoticed for years, so classmates teased her while she hid it behind her drawing. She says the same wiring that scrambled words also le...

Q 03/05

What did the space rock that crashed onto the Michigan farm of Patricia Polacco's grandparents later become?

A) A museum exhibit

B) The village war memorial

C) The family headstone

D) A barn doorstep

Answer · why

C) The family headstone

The family headstone in the village cemetery is that very rock. Polacco retold the night it fell in a picture book and takes a piece of it along on sc...

Q 04/05

Which unusual ingredient from the garden goes into the cake Grandma bakes in Patricia Polacco's Thunder Cake?

A) Tomatoes

B) Zucchini

C) Beets

D) Pumpkin

Answer · why

A) Tomatoes

Tomatoes join the eggs and milk the pair gather while a storm rolls in, keeping a frightened girl too busy to hide. The book ends with the recipe itse...

Q 05/05

Patricia Polacco credits her vivid imagination to a storytelling childhood spent without which household item?

A) A telephone

B) A radio

C) A record player

D) A television

Answer · why

D) A television

A television never entered the house, so evenings went to her grandparents' tales instead. She still tells young writers to switch off their screens a...