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1. What needs to be changed in the sentence below? With a jolt, the tip of the airplane falls, steeply downward.

• Add and at the beginning
• Add a comma after airplane
• Take the comma after “falls” out
• No change is needed

3.a How does the speaker feel in paragraphs 13-16?

• Mad
• Lonely
• Annoyed
• Sad

3.b Choose a quote to prove your answer.

• “My mother is no longer at my side, and I’m no longer in the airplane. I’m strapped to my seat but I’m alone.”
• “And I’m falling slicing through sky… about 2 miles above the earth.”
• “Then all the sudden, we hit a storm front.”
• “I on the other hand grasp nothing at all.”

4. In the sentence below, which word should go in the blank? The flight from the Lima to Pucallpa takes only about an _______.

• Our
• Hour
• Hours
• Ours

6. What is the definition of the word “turbulent”?

• Engines on a plane that make it go fast
• Moving unsteadily or violently by movement of air.
• Wailing loudly and quickly
• Air bending by people

7. What is the authors purpose of writing the story?

• To inform about the airplanes that Juliane Koepcke rode.
• To entertain with a funny story about Juliane Koepcke
• To persuade to take cars instead of planes
• To write a memoir about a Juliane Koepcke

9. What happened in the audio at Panama City?

• A bomb blew off
• A war happened
• A plane crash
• A hurricane

10. In the audio where did Linda Robinson live?

• Panama City
• Mexico beach
• Yuma
• Youngstown

11. In the passage where was the flight from Lima to?

• Panama City
• Mexico
• Pucallpa
• San Diego

12. In the passage how does the mother feel about flights?