Phineas Gage Exit Ticket

Which of the following selections best summarizes a main idea of the excerpt?

• Work safety conditions for railroad construction workers needed to be improved.

• Phineas’s accident was likely his own fault.

• Phineas must not have told people the whole story about his accident.

• The fact that Phineas survived his accident changed our understanding of the human brain.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which passage from the text most strongly supports the answer to Question 1?

• “Phineas is the foreman of a track construction gang that is in the process of blasting a railroad right-of-way through granite bedrock near the small town of Cavendish, Vermont. Phineas is twenty-six years old, unmarried, and five feet, six inches tall, short for our time but about average for his.”

• “He is good with his hands and good with his men, ‘possessing an iron will as well as an iron frame,’ according to his doctor. In a moment, Phineas will have a horrible accident.”

• “Phineas Gage’s accident will make him world famous, but fame will do him little good. Yet for many others—psychologists, medical researchers, doctors, and especially those who suffer brain injuries—Phineas Gage will become someone worth knowing.”

• “Building a railroad in 1848 is muscle work. There are no bulldozers or power shovels to open a way through Vermont’s Green Mountains for the Rutland & Burlington Railroad. Phineas’s men work with picks, shovels, and rock drills.”

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

Which of these inferences about Phineas is best supported by the text?

• Phineas did not feel the pain from his skull splitting after his accident.

• Phineas will make a full recovery from the accident.

• Phineas’s men really enjoyed their jobs.

• Phineas is a very lazy and slow worker on the railroad.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1