Colin Powell Biography

Colin Powell was born in

• Harlem

• The Bronx

• Staten Island

• Jamaica

• Brooklyn

The Powells settled in Harlem when Harlem

• was most prosperous

• was poorest

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

When Colin was 3, his family moved to...

• the Bronx

• Harlem

• Jamaica

• Washington, D.C.

As a child, Colin was self-contentious about his race.

• true

• false

Luther and Maud Powell told their children that only ______ could lead to success.

• hard work and education

• hard work and perseverance

• hard work and church

• perseverance and education

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

perseverance means

• having the best ideas

• finding a way out of hard work

• staying focused on goals

• finishing work fastest or earliest

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CCSS.L.6.4A

Which has the most allure?

• $5

• a million dollars

• a job moving furniture

• a house full of porcupines

A biography is a

• secondary source

• primary source

Harlemites who moved to Hunts Point, the Bronx, felt they

• had been degraded

• needed to move again soon

• had moved to a worse neighborhood

• had moved up in the world

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

Events in a biography are often presented in

• random order

• order of importance

• chronological order

• reverse chronological order