Question

A Child Called “IT” by Dave Pelzer

Chapter Four “The Fight for Food”
Directions: Answer the following questions using details from the book and look up the
vocabulary words.
1. Why did David start stealing food at school?
2. How was David punished for stealing food at school?
3. In what ways was David not a part of the family anymore?
4. How did the father try to help?
5. Describe the meeting between the mother and the principal.
6. Describe the diaper incident.
7. How did the other students treat David?
8. Describe the vomit incident.
9. Describe the different places that David is forced to sleep.
10. What is the vomit inspection?
11. What did David start doing on the way to school?
12. What did the ammonia do to David?
Vocabulary: Write out the definition for each word.
Bliss, Degraded, Dire, Seepage, Resistance, Defecation, Regurgitated

Answer 1

1. He was getting starved at home by his mother and she would only give him table scraps sometimes he wouldn even get the luxury of having that.
2. his teachers reported it to his mother, who beat him for it and feed him less.
3. David wasn allowed to look at anyone in the family anymore. He was beginning to be called "The Boy"
4. His father tried to help by sneaking peices of bread into the garage for him.
5. Catherine boasted about making the people at school think David hurt himself.
6. On vacation this year she called them to come inside because they were making too much noise. The boys left to go on a slide with father; David was punished. He was made to sit while she smeared a full diaper all over his face. Then she smashed his face in a second diaper and told him to eat it.
7. The other students treated david like a peice of trash they were constantly making fun of him.
8. Davids mother suspected he was stealing food again.
9. He was forced to sleep on a cot without any blankets.
10. she shoved her finger down his throat to make him vomit. Then she forced him to eat what he regurgitated. Her next punishment was spoons full of ammonia and bleach.
11. He started begging for food from his nieghbors.
12. Amonia made david not be able to breath when his mother made him eat a spoonful.------ Or when his mother would put amonia and clorox in a bucket and close him in the bathroom with the mixture.
13. VOCABULARY.

• Bliss: supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment
• Degraded: reduced in rank, position, reputation, etc.:
• Dire: causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
• Seepage: something that seeps or leaks out.
• Resistance: the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
• Defecation: to become clear of dregs, impurities, etc.
• Regurgitate: to surge or rush back, as liquids, gases, undigested food, etc.