A Naughty Little Comet Pair Passage\

This poem is mostly about a young comet who_____________

The imagery in stanzas 5-9 helps the reader to understand

• the young star is not sure about how to live in the Milky Way

• the mother star is excited about her young star

• the young star is clearly aware of what it is doing

• the Sun is in a hurry to destroy the young star

Read the following lines from the poem

She told her of the ogre, Sun, who loved on stars to sup,

And who asked no better pastime than in gobbling comets up.

The poet describes the sun in this way to make it seem​​ (a)   ​

• human
• distant
• greedy
• bored

Which line from the poem best supports that the star did not listen to his mother?​ (a)  

• she used to scold her reckless child
• she wondered how so many stars could mope
• but quiet stars she laughed to scorn

The reader can conclude that the naught little comet

• was destroyed

• became a meteor

• went back to the Milky Way

• collided with Mars

What lesson did the young comet learn in the poem?

support your answer.

Read the dictionary entry below

1. not solid

2. insincere

3. hungry

4. concave

which definition best fits the meaning of Hollow as it is used in paragraph 2?​ (a)  

• a. # 1
• b. # 2
• C. # 3
• d. # 4

Read the sentence from paragraph 3

Anything unusual was always alarming.

The author uses this sentence to show how people________

• Were excited about new and peculiar things

• gave away things that were unfamiliar

• allowed themselves to sound alarms at oddities

• were afraid of things they didn't know about

How does the author reveal the peoples fear of the comets?

• by explaining the people's theory about the sun's rotation

• by including the prayer they said three times a day

• by comparing the university's ideas to the Church's ideas

• By describing what people of the Middle Ages wondered about.

Which sentence shows that the people in the Middle Ages were eager to learn?

• Astronomy was looked upon as an exceedingly practical study because it was by this science that the festivals of the Church were dated

• They studied the observations made by the wise men of the East for many centuries and learned a great deal.

• In the Middle Ages, however, people believed that the sun revolved around the earth.

• No one knew whence they came or whither they were going.