Name: ______________________________
Characterization Worksheet 3

Directions: Read the short passages. Answer the question by identifying an implied character trait. Explain your answer by referencing the text.

1. Daren showed up at the banquet with food stains all over his dress shirt.  He sat down, put his feet on the table, and burped loudly. The other people sitting at the table looked at each other but continued eating.

What character trait does Daren demonstrate? ______________________________________________

Explain your answer by referencing the text.

2.  Diamond spent twelve hours working on her Popsicle stick White House yesterday.  Today she noticed that there are bushes in front of the building, so she spent another six hours making bushes out of construction paper.

What character trait does Diamond demonstrate? ____________________________________________

Explain your answer by referencing the text.

3. Courtney asked her neighbor if she could borrow an egg to complete a recipe that she had already started.  The next day Courtney returned an egg to her neighbor along with a thank you card expressing her sincere gratitude.

What character trait does Courtney demonstrate? ____________________________________________

Explain your answer by referencing the text.

4.  When Angela asked her mother if she could go to the party, her mother said that she could not.  So Angela asked her father, who said that she could.  She then played her parents off one another until she got her way.  Angela enjoyed herself at the party.

What character trait does Angela demonstrate? ______________________________________________

Explain your answer by referencing the text.

5.  Kelvin found a wallet on the ground.  He opened up the wallet and saw an old woman's ID card.  Kelvin took the money out of the wallet and threw the wallet in a ditch.

What character trait does Kelvin demonstrate? ______________________________________________

Explain your answer by referencing the text.

6.  Kelly likes Aaron because they have many things in common.  They have formed a great connection and she thinks that Aaron is very handsome, but Kelly wants to date Burt.  Even though Kelly had nothing is common with Burt, he drives a fancy car and he spends a lot of money.  She likes this about him.

What character trait does Kelly demonstrate? _______________________________________________

Explain your answer by referencing the text.

7. Brad spends two to four hours a day grooming himself.  This regimen includes an extensive time period during which Brad lovingly admires his appearance in the mirror.  

What character trait does Brad demonstrate? _______________________________________________

Explain your answer by referencing the text.

8.  Jared got off the train from his small farm village.  He was now in the big city.  An unshaven man with a trench coat with several holes in it approached Jared and told him that he was a police officer and that he needed to see Jared's wallet.  Jared did not think that the man looked like a police officer, but he didn't want to get arrested on his first day in the city, so Jared reached into the front pocket of his overalls and gave the man his wallet.  The man promptly ran away leaving Jared with no money.  

What character trait does Jared demonstrate? _______________________________________________

Explain your answer by referencing the text.

9.  It was the bottom of the ninth inning and the home team was down by one.  There was a man on second base when Bruce stepped up to the plate.  Bruce pointed to right field.  The pitcher threw his fastball.  Bruce got a hold of it and sent it flying to right field.  The home team won.

What character trait does Bruce demonstrate? _______________________________________________

Explain your answer by referencing the text.

10.  Kathy has a big project due in two weeks.  She spends the next twelve days interacting with people from her school on social networks.  The night before the project is due, she rushes to complete it and gets a C- as a final grade.  She was happy with the grade.

What character trait does Kathy demonstrate? ______________________________________________

Explain your answer by referencing the text.