Feathered Friends Review

What characteristic do Sven and Claribel share that makes them well suited to space stations?

• They both sing well.

• They both like vacuum packed food.

• They are both small.

• They both know how to fly.

Based on this story, in order to maintain consciousness and feel well humans and birds both require ________.

• sunflower seeds

• oxygen

• exercise

• sunlight

The crew only had to revive Claribel once.

• True

• False

Which of the following are possible themes of "Feathered Friend"?

• Technology is always better than old fashioned methods.

• Technology is not perfect.

• Sometimes the old ways are better.

• People should not go to space.

Distressed, pathetically, and lamented all have a ____________ connotation.

• negative
• positive

Sympathy and empathy both share the Greek root __________.

Words made up of two or more other words are called __________ words.

• hard

• fancy

• compound

• complicated

Which of the following are compound words?

• football

• inexplicable

• pathetically

• earthbound

What part of speech is the compound word in the following sentence?

The hummingbird hovered near the feeder for a long time.

• adjective

• verb

• noun

• adverb

No one on the space station liked Claribel except Sven.

• True

• False