Unit 3 Week 5

Read these sentences from the article.

"An even worse form of the plague was airborne. It passed from person to person through their breath."

What does airborne mean?

• carried by air

• created by air

• not needing air

• destroyed in air

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

Which evidence from the text supports the author’s view that people did not understand the plague?

• Few people still die from the plague each year in the United States.

• Many people believed bad air, water, or behavior caused the plague.

• The plague was caused by bacteria that lived in fleas, and the fleas were carried by rats.

• Some cities began to keep public health records that told how many people died and were buried.

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.8

Read this sentence from the article.

"Everyone died, leaving cottages and other abodes empty."

What does abodes mean?

• areas

• homes

• hospitals

• towns

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Read these sentences from paragraph 4.

"Other cities developed public health departments during the plague years. These departments kept records of illnesses and deaths."

Which author’s view does this text evidence support?

• The records kept in the Middle Ages were not very useful.

• More people were buried than were born during the plague years.

• Sources from the plague years helped historians find out what happened.

• Fewer people died in the places where records were kept than in other places.

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CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.W.5.9A

What source supports the author’s view that huge numbers of people died from the plague?

• interviews from the time

• films about the bubonic plague

• burial records from the cities

• the author’s personal experience

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CCSS.RI.5.8

Read this sentence from the article.

"It is hard to know how many people died in the epidemic in Europe."

Which phrase helps the reader understand what epidemic means?

• in Europe

• how many

• to know

• people died

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

Read this sentence from the selection.

"The bubonic plague was one of the most horrific events in world history."

Based on the root of horrific, what is a horrific event?

• an unexplainable event

• a mysterious event

• an unexpected event

• a terrifying event

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CCSS.L.5.4B

Read this sentence from the article.

"It never again had such severe effects, so the earlier epidemic was the most devastating."

What does devastating mean?

• destructive

• well-known

• confusing

• well-defined

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

In which paragraph would this sentence best belong?

"People who are perfectly healthy when they went to bed at night could be dead by morning."

• paragraph 1

• paragraph 2

• paragraph 4

• paragraph 6

Which evidence from the text supports the author’s point that the bubonic plague was “The Terror of the Middle Ages”?

• The disease caused a high fever.

• People still get bubonic plague today.

• Between 33 and 50 percent of the population died.

• The plague was spread by bacteria infected fleas.

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.W.5.9A