The Third Elevator (study sync)

Which themes are found in The Third Elevator?

• 1. It is important to find fulfilling work.

• It is hard to find companionship when you feel you do not fit in.

• Doing things that don’t make me feel right is not part of my identity.

• All of these

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Match these:

• made to feel better

• dire

• friendly

• mollified

• extreme

• amiable

• upset

• agitated

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What are there 3 elevators instead of just 1?

• It makes the story more fun.

• The three elevators represent different parts of the kingdom.

• The three elevators represent different choices that characters have to make in the story.

  
  

• Symbolically, three is a number that makes everything connect.

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Which of the following inferences about the swan is best supported by the text?

• The swan loves loggers.

• The swan will do anything for the miners.

• The swan can get any bird he wants.

• The swan is very protective of the bluebird.

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“The swan said he would not leave his mistress, so the two birds stayed close by, setting up a home just outside the palace grounds where the little bluebird made a nest large enough for the both of them.”

What inference can you make about this statement?

• The swan is bad with directions

• The swan is very protective of the bluebird.

• The swan has a love for loggers.

• The swan thinks he's in charge.

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Which sentence from the text best supports the idea that the swan wants to bond with his family?

• “The swan asked the cloud to go back out into the air.”

• “The swan stood close to his wife, white feathers melding with her blue ones into a makeshift sky of their own.”

• “The swan wasn't entirely sure what to do, what would be a fatherly act, but, following his instinct, he held out his enormous wings and invited the cloud to gather underneath them.”
  

• “He breathed in the oxygen thickly, heady from it, and settled himself under a tree.”

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What information does this passage mainly convey?

When the feather doors opened to sky, the opposite of his life until now, as if he were face to face with the sun, the miner forgot to breathe; he stood there, with the clouds and the birds and the air, speechless. Amen to the firmament, his arms full to the rim of it. Birds—he'd forgotten all about birds!—flew by at face level, wings steady, and the miner laughed out loud at those amazing wingspans. He dazzled his eyes with the brightness of the blue, tears streaming down his cheeks as he clung to those warm feather walls. Who knew there was this kind of ridiculous beauty, just a quarter mile above the mine? He thought of his men, his favorites, fifty-five stories below in darkness, taking chunks out of the earth so that people could decorate their wrists and necks and ankles and fingers.

• It shows why the queen misses her swan.

• It develops the story’s theme of questioning and expanding boundaries.

• It shows that the miner feels strange outside of the mine.

• It shows how the miner feels more comfortable on the ground.

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What do the following lines from the text mainly reveal about the miners?

After a few minutes, he glanced at his younger friend, jittery with the nervousness that comes from sharing something deeply precious. The air was filling him up. He was tempted to try to fly.

“Well,” he said, unable to keep his voice casual. “So what do you think?”

His friend was scratching his head. His breathing had regulated but he looked puzzled.

• Not all miners are interested in escaping their surroundings.

• The two miners are very bored during the trip in the feather elevator.

• It is scary to share something special with another person.

• All miners are looking for some way to leave the mine.

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Which of the following inferences about the swan is best supported by the text?

• The swan wants to escape to the mine.

• The swan hates his family.

• The swan misses the queen.

• The swan is very protective of the bluebird.

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Which sentence from the text most strongly supports the answer to the previous question?

• ‘Welcome to our family,’ the swan said meekly.”

• “The swan said he would not leave his mistress, so the two birds stayed close by, setting up a home just outside the palace grounds where the little bluebird made a nest large enough for the both of them.”

• “The queen was terribly glad to see her old friend the swan, and they sat in the palace garden while ladybugs flew off the bushes and landed on their faces and backs.”

• “The logger didn’t listen and flung himself out the door of the elevator into the air.”

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