"The One-Million-Pound Bank-Note"

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English
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10th - 11th Grade
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Medium
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Jacki Colfack
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15 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Henry ends up in London because
he wants to acquire a fortune and win a wife
he has an "option" to sell a mining company for a profit
he is involved in a sailing accident
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.7
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The brothers were arguing over whether
a stranger would accept a million-pound note from someone he didn't know
a stranger could survive with only a million-pound note to his name
a stranger would return a million-pound note after he had possessed it for a month
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RI.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.11-12.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The brothers choose Henry because he is
a poor, honest, intelligent stranger
engaged to one of their daughters
a foreigner
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Henry's first reaction on seeing the amount of the note is
to return it
to get his old position back
to buy something to eat
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.1
CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Henry parlays the million-pound note into a fortune by
investing it in real estate
banking it and living on the interest
getting credit and favors on his reputation
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.1.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Henry feels he has really "made it" in society when
he is caricatured in a newspaper cartoon
he is invited to a royal society dinner
he is mentioned ahead of royalty in a gossip column
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Henry agrees to help Hastings by
lending him money
purchasing his "option"
lending his name as an endorsement
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.10
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.8.7
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10
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