RL51&RL510 Austere Academy Chapter 7 Comprehension

Why wasn’t Violet playing close attention in Mr. Remora’s class?  P.101

• She was distracted by Carmelita Spat's constant poking her in the back with a pencil and calling her a "Cake-sniffing orphan in the orphan's shack."

• She was exhausted from staying up late during Vice Principal Nero's 6-hour violin concert.

• She was tired from listening to all of Mr. Remora's boring stories.

• She was focusing her keen inventing brain on the Coach Genghis/Count Olaf problem, and she didn’t want to waste an ounce of her attention on Mr. Remora.

What does the author mean by the phrase, “Klaus was spending the morning on autopilot” mean? P.102

• Klaus was so bored with Mrs. Bass' measuring activities that he wished Violet would invent the machine that would do it for him.

• Klaus was thinking about a book he read on aviation where he imagined himself as a pilot that could fly him and his siblings away from Coach Gehngis/Count Olaf

• Klaus was measuring pencils without really thinking about them because he was worried about meeting Coach Gehngis/Count Olaf that evening

• Klaus was so tired from Vice Principal Nero's 6-hour concert that he was too tired to measure anything correctly in Mrs. Bass' class.

Which situation might a person literally do something "on autopilot"?

Check all that apply:

• A pilot using a mechanical computer feature to fly a plane across a large stretch of ocean

• A person driving the same road to work that they have driven for the past 8 years while concentrating on lesson plans for the day

• a tesla electric car that enables the driver to sit back while the computer steers the vehicle to the target destination

• A ship that utilizes a steering program that navigates the ship's course through the water, so the captain doesn't have to steer physically

Which situation might a person figuratively do something "on autopilot"?

• A pilot using a mechanical computer feature to fly a plane across a large stretch of ocean

• A person driving the same road to work that they have driven for the past 8 years while concentrating on lesson plans for the day

• a tesla electric car that enables the driver to sit back while the computer steers the vehicle to the target destination

• A ship that utilizes a steering program that navigates the ship's course through the water, so the captain doesn't have to steer physically

Why wasn’t Violet playing close attention in Mr. Remora’s class?  P.101

• She was distracted by Carmelita Spat's constant poking her in the back with a pencil and calling her a "Cake-sniffing orphan in the orphan's shack."

• She was exhausted from staying up late during Vice Principal Nero's 6-hour violin concert.

• She was tired from listening to all of Mr. Remora's boring stories.

• She was focusing her keen inventing brain on the Coach Genghis/Count Olaf problem, and she didn’t want to waste an ounce of her attention on Mr. Remora.

Read the following excerpt from the text: “Klaus was spending the morning on autopilot” mean? P.102

What type of figurative language is this underlined phrase?

• simile

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Why did Duncan and Isadora have puddles of beverages on their tray instead of in glasses? P.106

• Carmelita Spats had ran into them and spilled their drinks all over their trays

• They had missed lunch and were forced to do without glasses at dinner as punishment

• Nero had punished them for missing his 6-hour concert

• They felt sorry for the Baudelaires and decided to drink their drink in puddles as well

Which best summarizes Duncan and Isadora’s plan to help the Baudelaire’s problem with Coach Genghis/Coach Olaf? P. 106 & 107

• They plan to prop open the back door of the auditorium, tiptoe out during the concert, and keep an eye on them

• They plan to skip the concert and go with the Baudelaires to confront Couch Genghis/Count Olaf so they can make sure nothing bad happens to them

• They plan to give the Baudelaires a radio and then interupt Vice Principal Nero's concert as soon as Klaus radios that they are in trouble

• They plan to watch the Baudelaires from a distance and then call Mr. Poe on the stolen cell phone if the Baudelaires are in danger

“The children looked down at their shadows, which looked as flimsy as sheets of paper, and wished with every step that they could do something else—anything else—other than meet Coach Genghis alone on the front lawn.” What does the narrator mean by this statement?

• The narrator is illustrating how messy the lawn is since Carmelita Spats had thrown papers at the Baudelares when she called them Cake Sniffers

• The narrator is illustrating how skinny the Baudelaires shadows look in the darkness since Count Olaf had starved them when he was once their guardian

• The narrator is illustrating how vulnerable and helpless the Baudealires feel by comparing the Baudelaire's shadows to flimsy paper.

• The narrator is illustrating how nervous the Baudealires are feeling because the paper is often white, and they are pale-faced from being scared.

Read the following excerpt from the text: “The children looked down at their shadows, which looked as flimsy as sheets of paper, and wished with every step that they could do something else—anything else—other than meet Coach Genghis alone on the front lawn.” What type of figurative language is this?

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification