Taken By Surprise

What is Tim’s job at the beginning of the story?

• police officer

• subway employee

• office worker

• train conductor

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

What is a major turning point in the story?

• Tim quits his office job.

• Tim discovers a stretch of subway tunnel that has been rebuilt.

• Tim decides to go on a walk in a subway tunnel during a thunderstorm.

• Tim oversteps a rail tie, and his boot slips into the river running between the rails. Tim oversteps a rail tie, and his boot slips into the river running between the rails.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

Tim cries while in a stretch of subway tunnel that has been rebuilt.

What does Tim’s action suggest?

• Tim misses the office where he used to work.

• Tim is pleased by the changes made to the subway tunnel.

• Tim is upset by the changes made to the subway tunnel.

• Tim does not notice the changes made to the subway tunnel. Tim does not notice the changes made to the subway tunnel.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

Why is there no water between the rails in the rebuilt section of the subway tunnel?

• The channel under the rails is carved with smooth right angles and has places for the water to drain.

• There are no splintered wooden rail ties that would give way under the weight of a subway car.

• It has not been raining long enough for water from the thunderstorm to reach the rebuilt section of the tunnel.

• There used to be water there, but the critters that live under the rail ties drank it all. There used to be water there, but the critters that live under the rail ties drank it all.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.8

What is this story mainly about?

• a subway worker who sneaks into a subway tunnel to see what it is like

• a man who hates his job in an office and leaves it to become a train conductor

• a subway train that almost kills a subway worker when it passes him in a tunnel

• a subway worker who is deeply upset by the changes made to the tunnel a subway worker who is deeply upset by the changes made to the tunnel

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CCSS.RL.6.2

When the author writes that Tim was “off the clock for good,” what does he mean?

• Tim is running late for work.

• Tim has trouble keeping track of time.

• Tim does not like to use clocks.

• Tim is quitting his job.

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.

The changes made to a subway tunnel disturb Tim; _______, he no longer wants to work in the subway.

• however

• because

• although

• therefore