Things Not Seen Book Teaser

Author: Andrew Clements

(1) Bobby Phillips is a average fifteen-year-old boy. (2) That is, until he wakes up one morning and can’t see himself in the mirror. (3) Not blind, not dreaming – Bobby is just plain invisible. (4) There doesnt seem to be any rhyme or reason for Bobby’s new condition and even his dad the physicist can’t figure it out. (5) For Bobby, that means no school, no friends, no life. (6) He’s a missing persson. (7) Then he meets Alicia. (8) She’s blind, and Bobby can’t resist talking to her, trusting her. (9) But people are starting to wonder where Bobby is, and if he’s even still alive. (10) Bobby knows that his invisibility could have dangerous consequences for his family and time is running out. (11) He has to find out how to be seen again – before it’s too late.

Question 1 (2 points)

What change, if any, is needed in sentence 1?
Question 1 options:

A change Bobby to bobby

B change a to an

C change the period to a question mark

D make no change
Question 2 (2 points)

What change, if any, is needed in sentence 4?
Question 2 options:

A change to to too

B change there to they're

C change Bobby's to Bobbys

D change doesnt to doesn't
Question 3 (2 points)

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 6?
Question 3 options:

A change He's to His

B change a to an

C change persson to person

D make no change
Question 4 (2 points)

What change should be made in sentence 8?
Question 4 options:

A delete the comma after blind

B change resist to ressist

C change to to two

D no change needed
Question 5 (2 points)

What change, if any, is needed in sentence 10?
Question 5 options:

A insert a comma after family

B change knows to knew

C change the period to a question mark

D no change needed

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich shows the human tendency to contemplate one’s past life? "but if that is so," he said to himself, "and i am leaving this life with the consciousness that i have lost all that was given me and it is impossible to rectify it—what then? " he lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way. in the morning when he saw first his footman, then his wife, then his daughter, and then the doctor, their every word and movement confirmed to him the awful truth that had been revealed to him during the night. in them he saw himself—all that for which he had lived—and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. this consciousness intensified his physical suffering tenfold. he groaned and tossed about, and pulled at his clothing which choked and stifled him. and he hated them on that account. he was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again. he drove everybody away and tossed from side to side. his wife came to him and said: "jean, my dear, do this for me. it can't do any harm and often . healthy people often do it." he opened his eyes wide. "what? take communion? why? it's unnecessary! " she began to cry. "yes, do, my dear. i'll send for our priest. he is such a nice man." "all right. very well," he muttered. when the priest came and heard his confession, ivan ilyich was softened and seemed to feel a relief from his doubts and consequently from his sufferings, and for a moment there came a ray of hope. he again began to think of the vermiform appendix and the possibility of correcting it. he received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.