HMH M 2 W 1 Airborn Comprehension Review

How are Matt and Kate different?

• Matt believes the creatures are real, but Kate thinks they are imaginary.

• Matt is not sure the creatures exist, but Kate wants to search for them.

• Matt hopes to find the creatures, but Kate has lost hope of ever seeing one.

• Matt wants to go to the same regions as Malloy, but Kate feels that only experts should go

Who narrates the story?

• Matt

• Kate

• Malloy

• Sir Hugh Snuffler

What does the author most likely mean in the first paragraph when he writes that Matt had moths dancing in his stomach?

• Matt was afraid he might lose Malloy's journal.

• Matt was worried that he wouldn't find anything useful in the journal.

• Matt was excited about readiing Malloy's journal.

• Matt was embarrassed to be reading Malloy's journal.

According to the details in the passage, Molloy’s journal can best be described as

• destroyed

• dirty

• decorative

• damaged

What happens at the end of the story?

• Matt promises Kate that he will see whether their airship flies over the same coordinates that Malloy noted.

• Matt urges Kate to present Captain Walken with Malloy's journal.

• Matt encourages Kate to watch the volcanic explosion of Mount Mataurus as they fly over the Hawaiis

• Matt tells Kate that they should report the undiscovered creature to the Zoological Society

What is the genre of the story "Airborn"

• Historical Fiction

• Biography

• Fantasy

• Fiction

What is the gondola?

• A flying panther bat-like creature

• A volcanic mountain

• · an enclosure that hangs from a balloon or cable

• a journal

To make it easier to visualize what the creatures looked like Malloy provided what

• a live animal for Matt and Kate to observe

• Picture drawings in his journal

• a video of the creature

• a painting of the creature

Toward the end of Malloy's journal entries, the pages were hard to read and Matt could only make out a few words here and there because..

• The creatures tore it to shreads.

• Malloy's dog got ahold of it and messed it up pretty bad.

• There seemed to be a tropical storm and the journal got wet.

• Kate read it first and cried so much because she missed her grandfather and the tears made the ink run down the page.

Why didn't Kate's family want her to share her grandfather's findings of the creatures?

• They didn't want to share the creatures with the rest of the world.

• They were on a mission to find them for themselves.

• They were threatened by the government not to expose these new creatures.

• They were embarrassed by the whole business