RL51&RL510 Austere Academy Chapter 9 Comprehension

Explain what the narrator means when he uses the following phrase: “Events in one’s life become clearer through the prism of experience.” p.133

• Just as a prism separates white light into multiple colors, you can have various viewpoints in life.

• A human being's vision improves as they grow from an adolescent to an adult.

• Our understanding of things in our lives tends to become clearer as time goes on and we grow older.

• If you look at situations in life with a positive viewpoint, you will go far in life.

According to the text, what was the luminous circle symbolic of in the Baudelaire’s minds? P.135 Check all that apply:

• It was symbolic of the zero times they were successful in revealing Count Olaf in disguise to guardians in their past.

• It was symbolic of the glowing circle that was used as a race track to run laps on each night during SORE.

• It was symbolic of what they knew of their situation since they knew zero of what Count Olaf was up to.

• It was symbolic for the zero energy they had to try and figure out why they were running laps.

By the middle of Chapter 9, how many nights have the Baudelaires had to run S.O.R.E.? p.138

• 5 SORE sessions

• 6 SORE sessions

• 7 SORE sessions

• 8 SORE sessions

• 9 SORE sessions

Read the following excerpt from the text: “The Baudelaire brains were plagued with the symbolic, luminous zero glowing in their minds like a giant donut of despair.” P.138

What type of figurative language is this?

• Hyperbole

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Read the following excerpt from the text: “The Baudelaire brains were plagued with the symbolic, luminous zero glowing in their minds like a giant donut of despair.” P.138

Which answer BEST explains what thee author means by the underlined phrase?

• The Baudelaires were feeling physically ill from lack of sleep and tired muscles from multiple nights of SORE.

• The Baudelaires were exhausted from all the laps they had to run during SORE over multiple nights.

• The Baudelaires are discouraged from unsuccessfully trying to figure out what Count Olaf is up to.

• The Baudelaires are hungry since they did not eat anything when they were running laps all night.

Each of the Baudelaires’ school work/ work “falls off the wayside?”p.139

Match the character to the correct text detail.

For _________, it meant that she was so drowsy that she did not write down a single word of Mr. Remora’s stories.

• Violet

• Klaus

• Sunny

• Isadora

Each of the Baudelaires’ school work/ work “falls off the wayside?”p.139

Match the character to the correct text detail.

For __________, it meant that he was so weary that he didn’t measure a single one of Mrs. Bass’s objects.

• Violet

• Klaus

• Sunny

• Isadora

Each of the Baudelaires’ schoolwork/ work “falls off the wayside?”p.139

Match the character to the correct text detail.

And for ______, it meant that she was so exhausted that she didn’t do anything Vice Principal Nero assigned her to do.

• Violet

• Klaus

• Sunny

• Isadora

According to the Narrator, Each of the Baudelaires’ schoolwork/ work “falls off the wayside?”p.139

What does he mean by this statement?

• The Baudelares are getting behind in their work because they are so tired from SORE

• The Baudelaires are tired from SORE, so they are more clumsy than usual

• The Baudelaires are so upset with Count Olaf that they wish they could push him off the wayside of the road

• The Baudelaires are planning to run to the wayside when they finish their work so they can escape SORE

Each Baudelaire will have to face an early morning dilemma. Which answer best summarizes what they will face? page 148

• Sunny and Klaus have comprehensive exams where Sunny has to remember every detail of Mr. Remora’s stories, and Klaus has to recognize the length, width, and depths of Mrs. Bass’s objects, or they will be expelled from school. Violet will have to have homemade staples or be expelled from her job.

• Violet and Klaus have comprehensive exams where Violet has to remember every detail of Mr. Remora’s stories, and Klaus has to recognize the length, width, and depths of Mrs. Bass’s objects, or they will be expelled from school. Sunny will have to have homemade staples or be expelled from her job.

• Violet and Klaus have comprehensive exams where Klaus has to remember every detail of Mr. Remora’s stories, and Violet has to recognize the length, width, and depths of Mrs. Bass’s objects, or they will be expelled from school. Sunny will have to have homemade staples or be expelled from her job.

• Violet and Sunny have comprehensive exams where Sunny has to remember every detail of Mr. Remora’s stories, andViolet has to recognize the length, width, and depths of Mrs. Bass’s objects, or they will be expelled from school. Klaus will have to have homemade staples or be expelled from her job.