Live with Davy Crockett

6.) Read this sentence from paragraph 10 of "Live with Davy Crockett."

What is the meaning of the word exaggerate as used in this sentence?

• F.

  Stretch the truth

• G

  Seem to be true

• H

  Speak in a loud voice

• J

  Tell funny stories

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

7.) Which sentence from the interview tells the reason Davy stayed away from home for three years?

• A

  I traveled far into the backwoods and polished up my huntin' skills.

• B

  I thought of home and wished bad enough to be there.

• C

  I knew his anger would hang onto him like a turtle on a fisherman's toe.

• D

  Three years passed before I went back home.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

8.) What is the purpose of Casey Jones's interview with Davy Crockett?

• F

  To promote interest in Crockett's autobiography

• G

  To increase the number of viewers for KWMM-TV

• H

  To give citizens a chance to ask Davy questions

• J

  To allow the audience the opportunity to know Crockett as a person

9.) Which sentence from "Live with Davy Crockett" does not demonstrate that Davy Crockett is imaginative?

• A

  I shall tell you the information I know.

• B

  Well, it's true that I ate enough bear meat and drank enough buffalo milk to whip my weight in wildcats when I was eight years old.

• C

  He begged for his life, so I took him home and taught him some manners.

• D

  I also learned to grin racoons right of trees.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

10.) Based on the interview, what can the reader infer about the reporters?

• F

• G

• H

• J

11.) What is Davy able to do as a result of eating bear meat and drinking buffalo milk?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

12.) Which definition of the word accounts is used in the introduction of "Live with Davy Crockett"?

• F

  Definition 1

• G

  Definition 2

• H

  Definition 3

• J

  Definition 4

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

13.) How are the biography and the interview different?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

14.) Which statement from the interview supports the biographical detail that David had an encounter with a bully?

• F

• G

• H

• J

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

15.) Which sentence from the biography best shows that this statement could be true?

• A

  He learned to use a gun as a young boy.

• B

  He learned to survive while living alone in the woods.

• C

  David was a natural woodsman and the best rifleman in his unit.

• D

  David enjoyed bear hunting in the wilderness.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10