Code Orange End of Book Review

• A ticket to a rock concert

• A completed research paper

• An envelope filled with scabs

• Currency from the time period

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CCSS.RL.8.1

On the CDC site, Mitty discovers that smallpox is currently

• called the Black Plague

• active in various parts of the world

• related to the FBI investigation of a murder

• under surveillance although it does not exist

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CCSS.RI.8.1

Read the sentence from the novel. "This variety was called black pox because the person looked charred, like wood after a fire." The word black is to charred as rigid is to -

• frozen

• heated

• lighted

• softened

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Why was ring immunization important to science?

• The process ended smallpox worldwide.

• It identified the worst disease known on Earth.

• It attacked rats and mosquitoes carrying smallpox.

• The procedure cleaned the water supply in breakout areas.

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CCSS.W.8.1B

Why does Mitty finish his Beowulf quiz so quickly?

• He has a lot to say since he has read the poem.

• He has very little to write since he has not read the poem.

• He has always been fascinated by the topic of monsters, and he writes fast.

• He already has passing grade in English, so he doesn't care about the quiz.

Which word from the novel has a Latin root meaning "slime, poison"?

• Expand

• Inoculate

• Suffocate

• Virus

• He seeks treatment for the disease.

• He discusses his fears with Mr. Lynch.

• He experiences symptoms of the disease

• He follows guidelines from a medical handbook.

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CCSS.RI.8.3

For Mr. Blake, his son's term paper is proof that Mitty is

• doomed to fail in prep school

• obsessed with his science topic

• overwhelmed by advanced classes

• finally applying himself to learning

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.4

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

According to Derek, how is smallpox associated with bioterrorism?

• Rogue countries constantly seek viruses to destroy lives and economies.

• Insufflation creates immunity to the virus so it is a low threat to the public.

• The virus is easily detected and ringed so it is useless in terrorizing people.

• Groups and causes have successfully used the virus to infect innocent people.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.8