Biographies

A person has to be famous for someone to write a biography about him or her.

• True
• False

A biography can be about a person who lived many years ago or is still living today.

• True
• False

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This biography is about what famous athlete?

• Wilma Rudolph
• Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
• Kathleen Krull
• David Diaz

Who is this biography's author?

• Six Dots
• A Story of Young Louis Braille
• Jen Bryant
• Boris Kulikov

Libraries arrange biographies in this order

• Alphabetical by author last name
• Alphabetical by subject matter's first name
• Alphabetical by subject matter's last name
• Alphabetical by author's dog's name

This biography is about what famous activist?

• Cesar Chavez
• Kathleen Krull
• Yuyi Morales
• Pura Belpre

A biography has to be long

• True

• False

Biographies normally have...

• Made up characters

• Real people and real events

• Made up events

• fictional characters

The purpose of the author in writing a biography is to...

• persuade people into buying more books.

• inform readers so they can learn about someone.

• entertain readers so they can enjoy a good book.

In the biography of the week, Barack Obama ...

• was born in Hawaii

• was born in Chicago

• was born in Africa

• was born in Asia