74 pages 2 hours read

Caroline B. Cooney

The Face on the Milk Carton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

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Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following words best describes Janie after she believes she saw her picture on the milk carton?

A) Enraged

B) Disheartened

C) Dazed

D) Relieved

2. As Janie listens to her friends talk about their birth certificates, she “seemed to melt, like ice cream in the sun” (Chapter 4). Which of the following literary devices is used in this quote?

A) Palindrome

B) Personification

C) Allegory

D) Simile

3. According to Janie, which of the following adjectives best describes Janie’s mother’s reaction when Janie asks her about her birth certificate?

A) Evasive

B) Confused

C) Relieved

D) Calm

4. Which type of literary device does Janie frequently use in her inner monologues when she thinks about the photo of the girl on the milk carton?

A) She uses allegories in order to describe stories she learned as a small child.

B) She uses metaphors and similes to vividly compare herself to the outside world.

C) She uses personifications to express the emotiveness of the carton.

D) She uses anaphoras for poetic word play.

5. Which of the following best describes Janie’s personality?

A) Confrontational

B) Gossipy

C) Flirtatious

D) Peace-loving

6. After the Honors Breakfast, the narrator describes Janie’s day: “School that day was a queer and floating place. Janie filled her spot. She talked, wrote, wended her way from hall to class. But she was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion, battered against milk-carton photographs and attic trunks” (Chapter 8).

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