High-Tech Hide and Seek RI.2.6 Achieve 3000

Select the best summary of the article.

• Geocaching can only be done with a smart phone.

• Some caches are disguised as something normal, like rocks or metal bolts. Some even look like chewed-up pieces of gum! This makes them even harder to spot.

• Geocaching is a high-tech hide and seek game that is popular around the world.

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What is the author's purpose for the article? Choose TWO

• To entertain the reader with a funny story about geocaching

• To inform the reader about geocaching

• To persuade or convince the reader that geocaching is fun and popular

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How do these sentences advance the author's purpose?

I'm one of 10 million people around the world totally hooked on geocaching.

Geocaching is over 20 years old, and there are more than three million caches stashed across 191 countries.

• To provide statistical data that geocaching is popular.

• To discuss problems and solutions related to geocaching.

• To describe a cause and effect relationship in geocaching.

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What is the author's tone in these sentences?

Treasure found! But I won't tell you just yet what this prized possession was.

Seekers never ignore these clues!

Anyway, you're probably wondering if what's inside a geocache is worth all the fuss, and I admit that for most geocachers, the fun is just in the finding!

• sad and mournful

• objective and disinterested

• excited and enthusiastic

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Based on the author's tone and word choice select their point of view.

• They believe geocaching is difficult and not very interesting.

• They believe geocaching is a fun and interesting activity.

• They believe only a few people would like geocaching.

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Select sentences that reflect the author's attitude about geocaching. Choose THREE

• My friend and I were playing a kind of high-tech hide-and-seek called geocaching (gee-oh-cashing) where players (I like to call them "stashers") hide something random somewhere on Earth, and the other players (the "seekers") have to find it using a global positioning system (GPS) device.

• Even though most geocaches are large and easily reached, a few are small or so well hidden that seekers have to do a whole lot of hunting to find them. Some caches even require swimming or rock climbing to reach them!

• But some containers protect geoswag like trinkets and keychains.

• So, we opened the box and inside was…a copy of an ancient Roman coin, the best treasure ever!

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What is the author's purpose for including this information?

Players use latitude and longitude to get to a cache, but it's not an "X marks the spot" kind of game. That's because GPS devices are only accurate to within 6 to 20 feet (that's 1.8 to 6 meters). So when players reach the coordinates, the real quest begins.

• To provide a definition of geocaching

• To share an anecdote or story about geocaching

• To give explanatory details about how geocaching works

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How does the author's tone and use of rhetorical devices affect the audience?

• They create interest in geocaching and encourage the reader to try the activity

• They discourage the reader from trying geocaching

• They have no effect on the reader

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