NCL56&RL510 The End Chapter 3 Comprehension

Read each sentence. Match the correct vocabulary word with the sentence that it best fits.

When the hungry dog entered the room, she started to ______________ the bowl of food.

• cordial (adj.) warm and friendly. (n.) fermented beverage or comforting or pleasant tasting medicine. 

• dubious (adj.) no to be relied upon, hesitating or doubting.

• efficacy (n.) the ability to produce a desired or intended result.

• submerged (v.) below the surface of water, completely cover or obscure

• devour (v.) to eat hungrily or hurriedly, destroy completely

Read each sentence. Match the correct vocabulary word with the sentence that it best fits.

The Superintendent of Schools received a __________ greeting at the assembly.

• cordial (adj.) warm and friendly. (n.) fermented beverage or comforting or pleasant tasting medicine. 

• dubious (adj.) no to be relied upon, hesitating or doubting.

• efficacy (n.) the ability to produce a desired or intended result.

• submerged (v.) below the surface of water, completely cover or obscure

• devour (v.) to eat hungrily or hurriedly, destroy completely

Read each sentence. Match the correct vocabulary word with the sentence that it best fits.

The camper ______________ the flaming hotdog in a pail of water to cool it off.

• cordial (adj.) warm and friendly. (n.) fermented beverage or comforting or pleasant tasting medicine. 

• dubious (adj.) no to be relied upon, hesitating or doubting.

• efficacy (n.) the ability to produce a desired or intended result.

• submerged (v.) below the surface of water, completely cover or obscure

• devour (v.) to eat hungrily or hurriedly, destroy completely

Read each sentence. Match the correct vocabulary word with the sentence that it best fits.

The little girl and her brother ________________ the beachside for pieces of sea glass and beautiful shells.

• cordial (adj.) warm and friendly. (n.) fermented beverage or comforting or pleasant tasting medicine. 

• dubious (adj.) no to be relied upon, hesitating or doubting.

• efficacy (n.) the ability to produce a desired or intended result.

• scavenged (v.) search for and gather from waste

• devour (v.) to eat hungrily or hurriedly, destroy completely

Read each sentence. Match the correct vocabulary word with the sentence that it best fits.

The dishonest businessman’s _______________ character made Jake think twice before taking his offer.

• cordial (adj.) warm and friendly. (n.) fermented beverage or comforting or pleasant tasting medicine. 

• dubious (adj.) no to be relied upon, hesitating or doubting.

• efficacy (n.) the ability to produce a desired or intended result.

• scavenged (v.) search for and gather from waste

• devour (v.) to eat hungrily or hurriedly, destroy completely

Read each sentence. Match the correct vocabulary word with the sentence that it best fits.

Charlie questioned the _____________ of putting charcoal in peanut butter to make crystals.

• cordial (adj.) warm and friendly. (n.) fermented beverage or comforting or pleasant tasting medicine. 

• dubious (adj.) no to be relied upon, hesitating or doubting.

• efficacy (n.) the ability to produce a desired or intended result.

• scavenged (v.) search for and gather from waste

• devour (v.) to eat hungrily or hurriedly, destroy completely

Look at the following excerpt from Chapter 3.  

"Baudelaire?" Ishmael repeated, and raised his eyebrows. He gazed at the three children in silence as he took a long sip of cordial from his seashell, and for just one moment his smile seemed to disappear. But then he gazed down at the siblings and grinned heartily.”

What do you think the author is trying to tell us by describing Ishmael’s behavior?

• Ishmael doesn’t like the Baudelaires. The reader can tell because he is frowning.

• Ishmael raised his eyebrows because he doesn’t believe the Baudelaires are really who they said they are.

• Ishmael may have heard the Baudelaire name before because he repeated the name and gazed at the children in silence.

• Ishmael is very happy to drink his cordial and share it with the Baudelaires.

Which details from the text BEST supports the idea that the colony has very strange and strict customs?

• "Ishmael says that everyone should be treated with kindness," Friday said, "unless they are unkind themselves.”

•  "Besides, our custom is to wear nothing but white… Friday, I'm surprised you are choosing to break with tradition." Friday blushed, and her hand rose to the sunglasses she was wearing.

• “We catch fish, and cook meals, and do the laundry, but that still leaves much of the day unoccupied."

• "Very well," Ishmael said. "Run along and find your robes, and once you've changed, please give all of your old things to Friday and we'll haul them off to the arboretum." "Everything?" Klaus said.

Which answer BEST explains why the Baudelaires didn't tell Ishmael their whole story?

• They would have

  had to tell the parts that put the Baudelaires in

  an unfavorable light, making them look as treacherous as Olaf

• They would have had to mention their own comrades, from Justice

  Strauss, who turned out to be more useful than

  they had first thought, to Fiona, who turned out

  to be more treacherous than they had imagined

• They would

  have mentioned their own disguises, from

  Sunny pretending to be Chabo the Wolf Baby

  to Violet and Klaus pretending to be Snow

  Scouts

• They would

  have to tell Ishmael about Olaf’s many comrades,

  from his girlfriend Esmé Squalor to the two

  white-faced women who had disappeared in the

  Mortmain Mountains

Read the underlined phrase in the following excerpt from Chapter 3:

“As the three Baudelaires exited the tent, and handed the detritus of their previous lives to Friday, they felt their own secrets fermenting inside them, and wondered what other secrets and schemes lay undiscovered.”

What does the underlined phrase mean in the context of this sentence?

• fermenting (n.) agitation and excitement among a group of people, typically concerning major change and leading to trouble or violence

• fermenting (v.): incite or stir up (trouble or disorder)

• fermenting (v.) of a negative feeling or memory/ to fester and develop into something worse.

• fermenting (v.): the chemical breakdown of a substance by bacteria, yeasts, or other microorganisms, typically involving effervescence and the giving off of heat.