City of Ember Chapters 1-7

The box with the instructions will be entrusted to the Mayor of Ember

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

Which word best fits in the blank space:

Pipeworks : underground

Clary's workplace : greenhouses

Looper's Shop : Eastside of Ember

Mayor's Office : ________________

• Unknown Regions

• north of town

• Gathering Hall

• River Road

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CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What is the main conflict of Chapter 6 "On Night Street," and how is it solved?

• The lights continue to go out, and no one knows how to fix them.

• Poppy is lost during a blackout, and Doon finds her.

• Looper is a crook, charging outrageous prices for colored pencils.

• Lina makes a scary dash around the city of Ember looking for Poppy.

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.W.5.9A

Lina thinks that if the document was important to the future of the city, then the mayor should know about it.

Which is the best antonym of future

• upcoming

• past

• goodwill

• angry

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Read this sentence from The City of Ember. "Now he was stuck in the muck of the Pipeworks, patching up pipes that would leak and break again in a matter of days."

Which two words from this selection rhyme?

• pitching, pipes

• leak, break

• stuck, muck

• matter, days

The conflict in Chapter 7 "A Message Full of Holes" is mostly the result of which event?

• Poppy chews the instructions making them a puzzle to read.

• Lizzie Bisco hates her job with all the little writing all day.

• The seventh mayor of Ember is less honorable than the mayors that came before him.

• The storerooms are running low on certain supplies.

Sadge ran across the city with a flamming stick, planning to use it to light his journey. A synonym for journey is

• trip

• stay

• settle

• freeze

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Choose the purpose for the following type of writing:

Dear Mayor Cole,

I have discovered a document that was in the closet. It is instructions for something. I believe it is important because it is written in very old printing. Unfortunately it got chewed up by my sister, so it is not all there. But you can still read some bits of it, such as:

marked with E

find door of bo

small steel pan

I will show you this document if you want to see it.

Sincerely yours,

Lina Mayfleet, Messenger

34 Quillium Square

• to persuade the mayor to follow the instructions.

• to explain to the mayor about a document Lina had found

• to describe to the mayor what the special instructions looked like.

• to inform the mayor that Lina's sister had chewed up the document.

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CCSS.SL.5.4

Lina sped by people on Otterwill Street going back to open their stores and overheard snatches of conversation as she passed.

In this sentence snatches most probably means:

• grasping or seizing hastily

• a brief period of time

• kidnapping

• a small amount

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Read the first pair of words. Think of how they are related to each other. Then find the word that makes the second pair of have the same relationship.

excited : bored :: careless : ____________

• disappointed

• cautious

• alert

• reckless

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CCSS.L.5.5C