TEN MILE DAY READING

Ten Mile Day is an expository text, it means. . .

• that tells about real people and events as an explanation

• tells about a real person's life

• tells a long story that will never happen

• tells a humorous story.

What was the purpose of the transcontinental railroad?

• To discovered California State.

• To called for thousand of volunteers

• To build a transportation system all across the country

• To build a transportation system that competes with the one in Mexico

What was the amount of the bonus money offered if the men completed the challenge?

• $10,000

• $1,000

• $100.000

• $100

How many times their normal wages were the men paid for volunteering to work on the 10 Mile Challenge?

• Ten times each normal wages.

• Four times each normal wages.

• Forty times each normal wages.

• Fourteen times each normal wages.

Why does the foreman sing a song while the men are working one the railroad?

• To keep them in rhythm and doing the same thing at the same time

• To spend the time

• To learn Chinese when singing

• To meet the challenge

Most volunteers were . . .

• Chinese and Irish

• Chinese and Japanese

• Japanese and Irish

• Irish and Canadian

Dust clouds choked the air, What does it mean?

• The workers attached poles over their shoulders

• The workers were happily breathing the dust

• The workers had a hard time breathing.

• They couldn't move the rolling wheels

There is a crew working alongside the railroad, What are they doing?

• They are writing those adventures to share

• They are building a telegraph wire for communication

• They are singing song to keep the positive attitude

• They are planting seeds to have a natural fence of bushes

Why did the men call the six-mile point "Camp Victory"?

• They were confident to reach their goal of ten miles in one day.

• There was an old city named "Victoria"

• They could not believe they could have success.

• There was a special crew waiting for them.

The author wrote "They had done the impossible again". What does it mean?

• The teams could not incline the curves in the mountains.

• The teams were not efficient.

• The railroad workers were mostly immigrants, surviving and finding work in America

• The crews had strong feelings