Audubon Day 2

1. Which sentence from the passage shows Audubon’s determination to observe birds in their natural habitat?

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  “These were the days before photography, and he wanted to get every detail right, down to the smallest feather.” (paragraph 2)

• 1. “His paintings not only show how the birds look but also tell a story about how they live.” (paragraph 5)

• 1. “A mockingbird defends its eggs from a rattlesnake, a bald eagle clutches a catfish in its claw, a fat little puffin goes for a swim.” (paragraph 5)

• 1. “He hiked hundreds of miles, floated down rivers, climbed rocks, and crawled into caves.” (Paragraph 6)

Answer explanation

Although C & D both talk about birds in their natural habitats, only D shows how AUDUBON searched for them!

2. Read the sentences from the passage.

“There were only seventeen states in the Union then, so most of the country was to Americans a mysterious wilderness. Every year explorers set out to chart distant rivers and mountains.” (Paragraph 6)

What does the word chart mean as it is used in paragraph 6?

• 1. Map out unknown areas

• 1. Travel over familiar routes

• 1. Discover new animal species

• 1. Search for nearby settlements

Answer explanation

The only options that would go along with EXPLORERS would be A or C. However, only A would be something you would do with unknown areas (such as rivers and mountains)

3. Fix the following sentence: borned outside the united states audubon had came to america in 1803 and that was the time when thomas jefferson was president of the united states of america

Answer explanation

Born outside the United States, Audubon came to America in 1803 when Thomas Jefferson was president.

4. Is the following a sentence (independent clause) or fragment (dependent clause)?

which he later turned into bird “biographies”

• sentence

• fragment

Answer explanation

What did he later turn into bird biographies?!

5. What type of sentence is below?

 Almost every day he wrote letters and detailed field notes, which he later turned into bird “biographies”.

• Simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

Answer explanation

 Almost every day he wrote letters and detailed field notes (INDEPENDENT) + which he later turned into bird “biographies” (DEPENDENT) = COMPLEX