Quiz: The Case of the Disappearing Words

What is the genre of "The Case of the Disappearing Words"?

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

• Drama

• Poetry

What is the sub-genre of the article?

• biography

• auto-biography

• informational

• persuasive

What should the writer include when writing a "feature article" that reports information to the reader?

• Opinions, thoughts, and feelings

• Character, setting, and plot

• Persuade, inform, and entertain

• Facts, statistics, and examples

According to this article, what is an important benefit of saving a language?

• It can teach people new things about the world.

• It can help people develop new technologies.

• It can help people create new languages.

• It can introduce people to new sounds.

Which sentence from the article BEST supports the idea that you can learn about culture through languages?

• The answer is that having a variety of species benefits our environment.

• A language's vocabulary prints a fascinating picture of a society's way of life.

• A language may contain hidden knowledge that the rest of the world has not yet discovered.

• A language may describe something in a way that is funny, sharp, or beautifully poetic.

In the section "Categories of Danger", what can you infer is a reason why the Dakota language is endangered?

• because parents don't teach it to their children

• because parents might understand it but don't speak it much

• because it is no longer taught in schools

• because children speak it at home but not outside the home

Which statement is a MAIN IDEA of the ARTICLE?

• Linguists have noted that half of all languages might disappear by the year 2100.

• If you want to save an endangered language, you must record people speaking it.

• People in China who speak the language Uighur are limited in how much they can speak.

• Languages can be saved when people choose to make them a priority.

Which sentence from the article would be MOST important to include in a summary of the article?

• Languages tend to become endangered when a dominant culture swallows up a smaller culture.

• In China today, the government limits the amount of time that teachers may speak the language Uighur.

• A vulnerable language is one that many children speak at home, but few speak outside their home.

• From 1896 to 1986, public schools in Hawaii did not teach the Hawaiian language.

The teenager told his mother not to _____ him about the low grade he made on the test.

• contradict

• consequence

• term

• lecture

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RL.7.4

It takes a lot of time before you can speak a new language _____.

• contradict

• linguists

• fluently

• pronouncing

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4D

CCSS.RI.7.4