RI.1.3 - Mastery Check

RI.1.3 - Mastery Check

Passages: Ida Tarbell and A Surprsing Way to Grow Plants

Multiple Choice

Why did the owners of Standard Oil want to create a monopoly?

• to make oil less expensive for people.

• to bring about new laws.

• to control the price of oil.

• To encourage the use of electric light bulbs.

Multiple Select

Select the two paragraphs from the passage below that best supports the anser to Part A.

• Paragraph 2: "Standard Oil sold a special type of oil called kerosene. At that time, light bulbs were not in common use yet. At night most people lit their houses with lamps and burned kerosene oil."

• Paragraph 3: "The owners of Standard Oil knew that everyone depended on kerosene. They wanted Standard Oil to be the only company thst sold this product. So they worked year after year and city afetr city to drive other oil companies out of their bussiness. They made secret deals with the railroads. As a result, the company paid lower shipping rates than other oil companies. Standard Oil became a monopoly"

• Paragraph 4: "A monopoly is a company that controls a particular business or product. Monopolies take away the opportunity for businesses to compete. They hurt customers by controlling prices. Thank about it: if you could oly buy oil from one company, that company could charge whatever it chose. You would have to pay their price or go without oil. Today, monolopolies are illegal, but they were legal back then."

Multiple Choice

How Ida Tarbell discover the full story of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbeel wrote about the unfair practices of Standard Oil

• Ida Tarbell spent years researching Standard Oil

• Most people used kerosene by Standard Oil

• Standard Oil had to break up into small companies

Multiple Choice

How did Ida Tarbell's story affect Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell wrote about the unfair practices of Standard Oil

• Ida Tarbell spent years researching Standard Oil

• Most people used kerosene by Standard Oil

• Standard Oil had to break up into small companies

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Multiple Choice

One advantage of hydroponic plants is____________________________

• they are grown near where they will be sold

• they can be shielded from the rain

• they do not need votamins and minerals

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from teh text best supports the anwser in Part A?

• "For one thing, Earth's population is increasing and that means more farms are needed to produce food."

• "Soil also holds on to much of the vitamins and minerals that would go into a plant's roots"

• Soil can be very heavy, especilly from the amount needed in a rooftop or indoor greenhouse.

• "Imagine if farms could be loated in doenwtown areas, on top of office and apartment building or even inside them."