The Bone Wars 7th Grade

The article says that paleontology was a young science in the US in the mid 1800's. How knowledgeable about the field were paleontologists of the time?

• They were more informed than other nations.

• They were the greatest experts of the field at the time.

• They were not very knowledgeable about their field.

• They were just as knowledgeable as other scientists.

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Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Question 1?

They were not very knowledgeable about their field.

• "Another scientist soon pointed out that Cope had mistakenly stuck the beast's skull on its tail" (par. 4)

• "Cope was humiliated, and Marsh crowed about the blunder to anyone who would listen." (par 4)

• "Because they published their findings as quickly as possible, they made many mistakes" (par 6)

• "Unlike Cope's mistake with Elasmosaurus, paleontologists didn't discover and undo Marsh's Brontosaurus blunder for nearly 100 years" (par 6)

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Fill in the Blank:

Cope and Marsh greatly influenced each other's works. The _______ between them led each scientist to ___________.

• competition/make amazing discoveries

• competition/ become a celebrity

• public discourse/ become a celebrity

• public discourse/ make amazing discoveries

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Marsh and Cope had a stormy relationship. Choose one answer for each showing what action started the conflict and what action had long term consequences.

1. Action that caused the conflict
2. Action with consequences for today's paleontologist.

• Marsh bribes Cope's employees to betray Cope.

• Marsh claims he is the first to discover a mistake by Cope.

• Cope and Marsh blow up cliffs to keep each other from discoveries.

• Cope and Marsh attack each other in the newspaper.

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Each man thought he was better in his field than the other. What sentence from paragraph 6-7 best supports the inference that Cope also thought he was smarter than Marsh.

• Cope and Marsh assaulted each other through letters published in the newspaper.

• He donated his skull to science and asked that his brain size be compared with Marsh's.

• Such speed damaged many specimens, but each man wanted the credit of making the first discoveries of new species.

• Marsh, for example, accidentally stuck the head of one dinosaur on the neck of another dinosaur and thought he discovered a new dinosaur.

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A good accurate summary includes only important details. Which detail is not important enough to include in a summary of the article.

• The rivalry between Cope and Marsh affected their fieldwork.

• Cope and Marsh brought to light some amazing discoveries.

• Each man's rush to claim glory caused mistakes to be made.

• The men gained fame due to their letters in the New York Herald.

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Which best expresses the author's opinion about the long-term effects of The Bone Wars.

• The proved that scientist cannot be celebrities for long.

• They were a series of blunders that serve as a cautionary tale.

• They produced mostly meaningless discoveries.

• They had both positive and negative results.

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Which paragraph from the passage best supports Question 7.

They both have both positive and negative results.

• paragraph 5

• paragraph 6

• paragraph 7

• paragraph 8

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The last paragraph of the article states that "American paleontology got a bad reputation from Cope and Marsh's cutthroat behavior. Which two sentences best support this idea.

• "Marsh journeyed there and stayed with Cope for a few weeks." (par 3)

• "The teams even used dynamite to blow up cliffs and bury fossils to keep discoveries from falling into each other's hands." (par 6)

• "Cope and Marsh discovered more than 130 dinosaur species" (par 8)

• "And many of their most famous discoveries, including Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Diplodocus, and Triceratops, fire the imaginations of children (and more than a few adults) worldwide. (par 8)

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Marsh and Cope found many bones that ________ identified. Accordingly the author speculates that if Marsh and Cope had gotten along, they may have been ______________.

• have yet to be/ less productive

• have yet to be/ more productive

• cannot be/ less productive

• cannot be/ more productive

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