Informational End of Unit 1

Question based on Explainer: What is Dreaming?
Select the paragraph from the section "Waking People Deep In Sleep" that explains why scientists moved away from dream research. (RI.1.1)

• For the next 20 years there was an incredible flourishing of dream research. Medical and psychological researchers were able to wake people up during different stages of sleep and ask them about their thoughts, feelings and ideas. People woken from dreaming reported feelings that were quite different from those reported by people in deep sleep.
• These studies confirmed many long-held beliefs about dreaming. In terms of brain waves, dreaming turned out to be very similar to being awake. These waves were recorded on electroencephalogram (EEG) machines, which measure and record the electrical activity from different parts of the brain.
• Still, dreaming was very different from being awake in other ways. For example, dreaming was more visual, and led to ideas that were stranger and more oddly connected. Dreaming often mixed boring aspects of waking life with strange and symbolic mental activity.
• From the late 1970s until the early 2000s, dream research shrank to a small field that many considered outdated.
  

Question based on Explainer: What is Dreaming?
Which section of the article suggests that earlier ideas about dreams are finding new support today? (RI.1.1)

• "Dreaming Of A Comeback In Research"
• "Waking People Deep In Sleep"
• "The Basic Modes Of Sleep Studied"
• "Dreaming Of Future Studies"

Question based on Explainer: What is Dreaming?
This question has two parts. 
Part A: Select two central ideas of the text. This question will be repeated twice since you can only choose one answer at a time.  Choose the answer that comes first as your first response.

• Though the study of dreams has not always been popular, interest in dreams has increased in recent times.
• The sleep mode, REM, spawned new brain research on sleep in order to fight depression.
• Scientific discoveries have led to extended dream research.
• Dreaming differs from being wake, in that it’s more visual and symbolic.

Question based on Explainer: What is Dreaming?
This question has two parts. 
Part A: Select two central ideas of the text. This question will be repeated twice since you can only choose one answer at a time.

• Though the study of dreams has not always been popular, interest in dreams has increased in recent times.
• The sleep mode, REM, spawned new brain research on sleep in order to fight depression.
• Scientific discoveries have led to extended dream research.
• Dreaming differs from being wake, in that it’s more visual and symbolic.

Question based on Explainer: What is Dreaming?
Part B: Select two sentences from the article to support the central ideas selected. Choose the answer that comes first as your first response.

• There is now an increased focus on neuroscience and on studying the brain through observable evidence.
• However, the study of dreaming has recently made a comeback.
• Scientists have found that memories and learning are deeply linked to brain activity during dreaming sleep.
• As the popularity of psychoanalysis declined, the dream was increasingly subject to the harsh light of science.

Question based on Explainer: What is Dreaming?
Part B: Select two sentences from the article to support the central ideas selected. 

• There is now an increased focus on neuroscience and on studying the brain through observable evidence.
• However, the study of dreaming has recently made a comeback.
• Scientists have found that memories and learning are deeply linked to brain activity during dreaming sleep.
• As the popularity of psychoanalysis declined, the dream was increasingly subject to the harsh light of science.

Question based on Explainer: What is Dreaming?
Which statement would be MOST important to include in a summary of the article? (RI.1.2)

• Modern sleep and dream research may provide new insights and health benefits.
• People who do not dream have more trouble learning than those who sleep well.
• Dreams have played an important role in Native American rituals and religion.
• Current understanding of dreams is based on scientific discoveries from the 1950s.

Question based on Aesop's Fable
This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.
Part A: What is the theme of the passage? (RL.1.2) 

• Lions are untrustworthy creatures. 
• If you make a promise, you should follow through. 
• Don’t underestimate the help someone could provide to you. 
• Large animals have large personalities.

Question based on Aesop's Fable.
Part B:  Select two sentences that support the answer in Part A. (RL.1.1) Select the answer that comes first as you first response.

• Once when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him. 
• Some time after the Lion was caught in a trap, and the hunters who desired to carry him alive to the King, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him on.
• Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which the Lion was, went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts.
• "Was I not right?" said the little Mouse. 

Question based on Aesop's Fable.
Part B:  Select two sentences that support the answer in Part A. (RL.1.1) 

• Once when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him. 
• Some time after the Lion was caught in a trap, and the hunters who desired to carry him alive to the King, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him on.
• Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which the Lion was, went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts.
• "Was I not right?" said the little Mouse.