Below Deck: A Titanic Story

Read this sentence from Below Deck: A Titanic Story.

So her cabin—room F57—was at the bottom of the ship, where everything was cramped and there wasn’t any fresh air.

What does the word cramped mean in this sentence?

• wet

• huge

• crowded

• comfortable

Which word names someplace where you might feel cramped?

• field

• desert

• elevator

• outer space

Read this sentence from Below Deck: A Titanic Story.

As Grace stood motionless in the chaos around her, word spread that there weren’t enough lifeboats for everyone on board, and people started to panic.

What does the word chaos mean in this sentence?

• water

• coldness

• confusion

• peacefulness

Which word means almost the same thing as chaos?

• disorder

• calmness

• emptiness

• arrangement

Read this sentence from Below Deck: A Titanic Story.

The sea was strangely calm, and everybody was looking up at something white and glittering and enormous drifting past the stationary ship.

What does the word stationary mean in this sentence?

• still

• rocking

• heavy

• gigantic

Which word names an object that is always stationary?

• bus

• building

• butterfly

• dog

ead these sentences from Below Deck: A Titanic Story.

The Titanic was the biggest thing Grace had ever seen in her life. . . .

Then she boarded the enormous ship.

Enormous and biggest are both words that describe something large. Why is enormous a stronger word than biggest?

• Enormous means exactly the same thing as biggest.

• Enormous means “not as large as,” while biggest means “large.”

• Enormous means “extraordinarily large,” but biggest just means “largest.”

• Enormous means “somewhat large,” and biggest means “somewhat larger.”

Select the word that has the same vowel sound as in the word true.

• bloom

• wood

• crook

• stop