A Night to Remember Re-Test

The following passage (paragraph 2) adds to the development of the excerpt mainly by .

Even the passengers’ dogs were glamorous.

• foreshadowing something that will happen later

• making the reader feel sympathy for the dogs

• including an important detail

• suggesting just how wealthy many of the passengers are

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

What do the following lines mainly reveal about the Quartermaster Thomas Rowe (paragraph 11)?

As he paced the deck, he noticed what he and his mates called “Whiskers ’round the Light”—tiny splinters of ice in

the air, fine as dust, that gave off myriads of bright colors whenever caught in the glow of the deck lights.

• The Quartermaster is a sensitive person.

• The Quartermaster is hypnotized by the deck lights.

• The Quartermaster pays more attention to the little details than to the danger at hand.

• The Quartermaster is the most experienced person on the watch.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

Which passage from the excerpt best supports the central idea?

• “The passengers in their cabins felt the jar too, and tried to connect it with something familiar.”

• Mrs. Walter B Stephenson recalled the first ominous jolt when she was in the San Francisco earthquake—then decided

  this wasn’t that bad.”

• “It seemed stronger to some than to others.”

• “Then he realized it was an iceberg, towering perhaps 100 feet above the water.”

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

Which of the following inferences about the stewards is best supported by the text (paragraphs 13-16)?

• The stewards would gladly welcome time off while the ship is being repaired in Belfast, Ireland.

• The stewards wished they were upstairs with the passengers so that they could learn more about them.

• The stewards will probably refuse to keep working unless they are treated better.

• Many of the stewards didn’t want to go back home to their wives and families.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Repeating the same line in paragraphs 5 and 11 adds to the development of the setting mainly by .

5) Now the watch was almost over, and still there was nothing unusual. Just the night, the stars, the biting cold,

the wind that whistled through the rigging as the Titanic raced across the calm, black sea at 22 1/2 knots.

11) At this moment Quartermaster George Thomas Rowe was standing watch on the after bridge. For him too, it

had been an uneventful night—just the sea, the stars, the biting cold.

• showing off the author’s descriptive ability

• suggesting that it was nighttime

• establishing that everything seemed ordinary and routine that night

• making it clear that they are out in the ocean

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3