Unit 2 Review

Select TWO answers: According to the paragraph, what are the most likely reasons the author shares the story about Ruth Wakefield being a tyrant?

Paragraph: In 1930 my husband Kenneth and I opened a restaurant near Boston called the Toll House Inn. Some have suggested that I was a bit of tyrant (mean) with the staff, and I don't deny it. If a waitress wasn't able to fold a napkin exactly right, I would suggest that perhaps her skills were better suited to one of those "greasy spoons." Yes, I wanted my restaurant to be the best, and I'm fairly certain that's no crime.

• The author wants to explain how nice Ruth was.

• The author wants to provide an example of why Ruth was strict.

• The author wants to describe the restaurant environment that Ruth ran.

• The author wants to tell how restaurants work.

• The author wants to emphasize that restaurant are good.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

What is an imagination?

• A type of science experiment
  

• A memory from the past

• The ability to create ideas or pictures in your mind

• A tool used to build things

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

Refer to the paragraph about Louis Braille below. The details in the paragraph support the key idea that --?

The entire course of my life changed when I was only three years old. One day, when I was using some of my father's tools, I managed to poke myself in the eye. But this was not just any poke. What bad luck -- the eye became infected and the infection spread to my other eye. By the age of five I was completely blind. While it made learning more challenging, being blind didn't dampen my desire. As you probably hunger for chocolate or pizza, I hungered to read.

Question: The details in the paragraph support the key idea that --?

• Louis is a hard worker.

• Louis is creative.

• Louis's injury put his desire (want) to read on hold.

• Louis wanted chocolate or pizza.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

What idea did Louis Braille think of after he learned of night writing from Charles Barbier? (page 73-74)

Paragraph: Then, when I was twelve, a French army captain named Charles Barbier visited my school. He told us about night writing, a communication system he'd invented for soldiers on the battlefield. Night writing was a complicated code of dots pressed into paper. And I do mean complicated! The system was so hard to learn that the army gave up on it. But it got me thinking... what if there were an alphabet for the blind that could easily be read but didn't have to be written in extra-large letters?

• He could use the machine to send messages.

• He could improve the invention to help blind people learn the alphabet, so that they could learn to read.

• He could make night writing a club for others to join

• He could send electrical signals through the air to antennas.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.4

Which of the following events occurred THIRD in Alexander Flemings order of accomplishments. Click the image to help you answer the question. (page 80-82)

• Served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

• Won the Nobel Prize in medicine.

• Suspected antiseptics used to clean their infected wounds were more dangerous than the wounds themselves.

• Left his petri dishes sitting out. They were contaminated and grew a fungus called Penicillin.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Read these sentences from paragraph 2 (page 77).

Painters don't erase their mistakes; they paint over them. So I mixed up a batch of quick-drying paint. The next day at work, when I made a mistake in my typing, I just painted over the wrong letters and then typed the correct ones over the paint after it dried.

What was Bette Nesmith Graham's innovative idea?

• She made a better radio.

• She made televisions more affordable.

• She created White-Out (Liquid Paper) to help with typewriting errors.

• She made 51 million dollars from selling her invention.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

Read this sentence from page 74.

They featured giant raised letters, but they were very heavy, difficult to produce, and not at all practical.

What does it mean to be practical?

• Something is useful, easy to use, and makes sense for real life.

• Unrealistic, unworkable, and theoretical

• To be interested in something.

• To make something better.

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

Whom did Alexander Fleming want to help with his invention? (page 80-82). Select the best answer.

• People who wanted to breathe underwater.

• People who wanted to eat chocolate chip cookies.

• People who were sick or wounded.

• People who made typing errors on a typewriter.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Refer to the text about Hedy Lamarr. (page 18)

What is the best paraphrase of paragraph 3?

Select the best answer.

• Hedy Lamarr enjoyed going to Hollywood parties, so she didn’t have time to invent anything.

• Hedy Lamarr only worked on small projects, like making a better tissue box, and never created anything important.

• Hedy Lamarr used her free time to invent, and while not all her ideas worked, she made important inventions that helped technology.

• Hedy Lamarr stopped acting so she could work as a full-time teacher instead of an inventor.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

Refer to the text about Hedy Lamarr. (page 20)

Which sentence from the passage describes a long-term impact of Hedy Lamarr's frequency hopping?

Select the best answer.

• “But some of her other inventions were advanced technologies.”
  

• “Some of the things she developed were everyday items (a better traffic signal, an improved Kleenex box—neither of which succeeded).”

• “She disliked Hollywood parties, so she had free time.”

• She changed her name in the early 1940s and became a movie star known for her stunning looks.”

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2