Museums: Worlds of Wonder Comprehension

As many as 1/3 of all cowboys may have been?

• women

• Native Americans

• African Americans

• from Canada

The first cowboys or vaqueros came from what country?

• Mexico

• Selinsgrove

• Canada

• Texas

Cowboys also included women. This an example of a fact or opinion?

• Fact

• Opinion

The Taylor-Stevenson Ranch and its' founders, Mollie Stevenson, Jr. and her mother, Mollie Stevenson, Sr. are also the first living African Americans in the

• National Football Hall of Fame

• Future Farmers of America

• National Cowgirl Hall of Fame

• The BubbleGuppies Fan Club

A fact is something you can prove, check, or show that it is true. Is this statement True or False?

• False

• True

The genre of this story is informational text. What are the characteristics of an informational text?

• headings, photographs, maps, and facts

• dialogue, stage settings, characters

• characters, setting, and a plot

• compare and contrast of events in a story or play

According to the author, the City Museum of St. Louis is located in an old shoe factory. This is an example of an opinion or fact?

• opinion

• fact

Visitors to the City Museum of St. Louis can do all of the following except?

• play in the Enchanted Caves

• watch sea creatures in the aquarium

• look at mummies, meteorites, and mammals

• play in a playground made of recycled items

Sue is the name of the largest T-rex skeleton ever found. Sue's skeleton can be found at the?

• National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.

• Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois

• American Cowboy Museum at Taylor-Stevenson Ranch

• World Forestry Center and Discovery Museum in Portland, Oregon

Sputnik I, the first satellite to successfully orbit the Earth can be found in what museum?

• Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois

• World Forestry Center and Discovery Museum in Portland, Oregon

• National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

• Chocolate World, Hershey, PA