Below Deck: A Titanic Story Questions

What is the genre of the story, Below Deck: A Titanic Story?

• Information Text

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Traditional Tale

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What is the author's purpose?

• To teach the reader facts and information about the Titanic.

• To persuade the reader to learn more about the Titanic.

• To entertain the reader with a story set in the past.

• To persuade the reader to take a trip on a large ship.

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CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RI.3.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

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Why did Grace live with her Aunt Nora?

• Nora had taken Grace in at age 5, after Grace's parents had died.

• Nora asked Grace's parents if she could raise her.

• Grace lived with Aunt Nora while attending school.

• Grace lived with Aunt Nora after leaving Uncle Patrick's house in New York.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Where was the Titanic built?

• New York

• Belfast

• Queenstown

• Dublin

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CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

What object is being described in the following sentence:

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

• Another passing ship

• The Titanic

• New York City

• An iceberg

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CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

Why did Grace go back to her cabin before boarding the lifeboat?

• She needed to get her suitcase.

• She didn't believe the ship was really sinking.

• She went back to save other passengers.

• She knew Catherine needed her help.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Why did the passengers start to panic when they were loading the the lifeboats?

• The lifeboats were sinking.

• Only the second class and third class passengers were allowed to board the lifeboats.

• There were not enough lifeboats for everyone on board the ship.

• The crew did not know how to lower the lifeboats.

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

Why did Grace change her mind and decided to help Catherine?

• Catherine promised that her family would take care of Grace when they got to America.

• She knew it would be wrong to leave Catherine there alone.

• Grace knew Catherine's family would give her a reward.

• Grace begged Catherine to leaver he alone, but Catherine followed her anyway.

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

Why did Catherine's father tell the crew that Grace was with their family?

• Grace saved Catherine from sinking with the boat.

• Grace's mother asked her father to let her into the lifeboat.

• The passengers on the lifeboat got angry that Grace wasn't allowed to board.

• Catherine told her father that Grace was not a thief.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

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Why was Grace told she was not allowed to board a lifeboat?

• She was not a first class passenger.

• She did not have her parents with her, and was not allowed to board the lifeboat alone.

• There wasn't any more room on the lifeboat.

• Grace had been in trouble for being in the wrong areas of the ship.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9