No Dream Too High: Simone Biles Quiz

Which of these inferences about Simone Biles is best revealed by the passage below (paragraph 1)? Biles smiled from ear to ear, revealing her braces.

• A. Simone Biles is upbeat and easy to like.

• B. Biles is young for the amount of experience and success she has.

• C. Braces are one of the many struggles that Simone Biles had to overcome.

• D. Biles is proud to have a gymnastics move named after her.

Simone soared through the air, flipped twice and landed on her feet, face forward. What was the maneuver called by the audience

• The Simone

• The Olympian

• The Douglas

• The Biles

The following passage (paragraph 4) adds to the understanding of Biles's development mainly by _____________________.

"She also didn’t know how to control her immense power, often bounding up and back several feet after landing tumbling passes."

• explaining why Biles would have to build a career without being able to perfect the balance beam

• showing how unnecessarily harsh critics were toward Biles early on in her career

• suggesting how Biles took a weakness and turned it into one of her greatest assets

• establishing what would be her signature tumbling technique throughout her Olympic run

Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 7)?

"Part of Biles’s natural talent also stems from her height or lack thereof. In some sports, height is an advantage, but gymnasts benefit from being shorter. From 2000-2012, the four all-around gold medal winners at the Olympics were between 5-foot and 5-foot-3. While that might seem short for most athletes, Biles stands at just 4 feet 8 inches. Her height bothered her as a child. As she told Women’s Health, “it was kind of a struggle being small since everyone would make fun of you,” but she’s glad she can show others that they can be “short or tall” and become the best."

• The all-around competition was previously never suited for the elegant Eastern Europeans.

• Biles was expected to struggle in the all-around competition due to being under 5-feet.

• Most fans do not realize just how short Gabby Douglas is.

• Biles possessed a distinct physical advantage over even the highest-achieving gymnasts before her.

Biles's coach pulls her from the Mexican Secret Classic after an abysmal performance.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.7.1

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Choose the sentence that best adds descriptive detail to the following passage (paragraph 8)

"On her way to becoming a world champion, Biles faced tough decisions. In eighth grade, she was training 20 hours a week; far less than other elite gymnasts. If she wanted to be an Olympian, she would have to commit more time to training. For Biles, that meant shifting to homeschooling and taking on more practices. Traveling to competitions would be all business. A Texas Monthly story about Biles noted that when they travel “gymnasts are sequestered—they stay in different hotels from the one in which their families stay—to reduce distractions. If they’re allowed an out all, it’s for carefully supervised visits to a tourist site or museum.” Still, Biles decided to make the switch. Afterwards, she also told BuzzFeed, “My hours ramped up and we did beam and bars twice a day, which usually I had only done once a day.”

• “Texas was also the site of the first nationals Biles would win.”

• “Biles felt an extreme amount of pressure to become the first African-American to win the all-around gold medal.”

• “Biles was afraid that she couldn’t go back to being a normal teenager if her gymnastics career did not work out.”

• “Biles proved that being exceptionally tall was not the only way an athlete could be physically gifted.”

Which of the following statements would the author of this text most likely agree?

• Biles is such an exceptional gymnast that it became almost impossible for any other gymnasts to compete at her level.

• Biles attributes a good deal of her success to her close bond with Gabby Douglas.

• Biles does not pick routines that have a high degree of difficulty, but she executes them with near perfection.

• Biles was almost kept out of Olympic competition due to her height.

Which of these inferences is best supported by the text?

• Many viewers of U.S. gymnastics are surely hoping that Biles does not compete in 2020 so that other gymnasts can have a chance.

• Most of the other team members in this competition against Biles have deeply-rooted racist beliefs.

• Biles does not see a college degree as something that is necessary for her future success.

• Changes to the gymnastics scoring system have helped Biles to flourish even more greatly.

Instructions for Student: Match each vocabulary word with its corresponding synonym.

• fundamentals

• top-tier

• invested

• basics

• elite

• completion

• execution

• spent

• rigor

• difficulty

Order these events chronologically as they have occurred in Simone Biles's life.

• Biles has to be homeschooled in order to intensify her training.

• An outdoor field trip Biles is scheduled to attend is redirected to a gymnastics center.

• Biles's coach pulls her from the U.S. Secret Classic after an abysmal performance.

• Biles appears more relaxed with her teammates after spending time with a psychologist