July 31st, 2015 Down These Mean Streets

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Directions: Choose questions that you feel you can answer. Try to challenge yourself to answer the highest level you can! Answer TWO questions for each level. Use complete sentences!

Questions based on the text: Down These Mean Streets, chapter #4 (Alien Turf)

Level#1

A) Piri tells his mother a lie about what happened to his face. He tells her that he beat up two guys at school. She reminds him that she is raising him in the "Christian way". What does she mean by that statement and what does she say that Christ says to do?





B) Piri's family wants to put carpeting in their rectangular living room, which is 15 ft by 12 ft. How many square feet of carpeting do they need?





Level#2

A) Piri tells his mother a lie about what happened to his face. He tells her that he got into a fight at school, and that he beat up two guys. She reminds him that she is raising him in the "Christian way". What does she mean by this ?




B) Piri's mother wants to put wallpaper on one wall of their kitchen. The wall measures 15 ft by 8 ft. How much wallpaper does she need to cover the wall?





Level#3

A) Piri's tries to explain to his mother how his face got messed up. He tells her a lie about how it happened. Does his mother want him to fight?



B) Piri is drawing a picture that measures 9 inches by 6 inches. He plans to put a frame around it. What is the perimeter of the picture so that he can build a frame to put around it?







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