Reading analyze

"Critical events can bring siblings together or deepen ain existing rift." This sentence means that critical events

• always pull siblings apart

• can have opposite effects on siblings

• always make siblings feel closer

What are examples of critical events in the paragraph?

• Those siblings who had been close since childhood became closer

• Parental sickness or death is a prime example

What is an estrangement?

Answer explanation

A separation

How do you know "estrangement" ? (Read lines 29-30)

Answer explanation

as a “festering sore”

Read lines 31-36. Why did the researchers ask this question?

• The majority of the people in the study did not have contact with their siblings. Researchers wonder why.

• The majority of the people in the study had contact with their siblings Researchers wonder why.

Read lines 37-39. The authors state that "closeness increases and rivalry diminishes." Diminishes is

• an antonym of increases

• a synonym of increases

Read lines 55-61. Which word in this paragraph is a synonym of dwindle?

Answer explanation

decline

What is a convoy of people?

• who supply comfort and nurturance

• empathy and security

"Brothers and sisters who may not have been important convoy members earlier in life can become so in old age." In this sentence, so means

• siblings can become important convoy members

• as a result

• very

Read lines 69-70. What is the meaning of all the way back?

• everything

• people

• person

• sister and brother