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Comprehension Questions Chapters13-15 16. To prove she should be promoted to the eighth grade she has to take a test that everyone else took to be promoted. 14. Mary (Peg) and Joseph's(Kenny) cue was "taxed." 10. Why did Kenny have to carry Peg down the aisle in the Pegeant? Kenny had to carry Peg down the aisle in the pegeant because the space was too small and Peg and Kenny had to walk behind one another 7. What common enemy did all the girls have? All the girl's enemy was Polio. They can't move or have trouble moving their muscles. 1. Why was Peg chosen to be Mary in the Christmas pegeant? Peg was chosen to be Mary in the Christmas pegeant because she was tall for her age and was young. --3. "A window of understanding opened in my mind, and the breeze of compassion blew in. From that moment on, I was glad to share my visiting family with my roommates." The quote means that she used understanding open her mind and let compassion in for her roommates in. She understands how everyone needed love and compassion from someone other than each other, because they don’t have anyone. Some of the girls have been through abandonment, no love, no family. 2. In the book “Small Steps” by Peg Kehret a little girl gets treated poorly by her nurse. Peg would have a lot of reasons why she would be angry at the nurse for not helping her turn over. She is a polio patient and if she needed it then you should do it. You can’t just stand there and wait for them to die. In addition after she talked about how she could only get flipped every 30 min. she still didn’t turn her over. And it was a good thing she told her parents about her.

She did the right thing of course. If you were ever diagnosed with a serious disease then you deserve good treatment. And in the world today kids are afraid to tell on bullies or people who mistreat them like the nurse, like they are supposed to. They are scared if the bully gets in trouble and gets mad at them. But once they tell they do the right thing. Then, for Peg she did the right thing by telling on the nurse and then got her replaced. 1. ﻿media type="custom" key="7913495"

What can you learn about yourself by studying the lives of others?

In the story Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse you can learn about yourself by studying Billie Jo’s life. She’s a hard worker with tons of confidence and a lot of bad luck. When reading about her life and seeing how she fought to survive, it teaches the readers not to give up.

You can learn Billie Jo’s life and learn yourself through that. The mistakes she made in her life can help others learn about themselves. It helps others by teaching them to forgive and forget. People have loved ones that die and blame others or themselves but this book helps talk about the forgiving process.