The microscope kit supplied a blunt black three-speed microscope, a booklet, a scalpel, a dropper, an ingenious device for cutting thin segments of fragile tissue, a pile of clean slides and cover slips, and a dandy array of corked test tubes.

In this context, the word tissue means:

• soft, thin paper used as a handkerchief.

• rich or fine material of a delicate or gauzy texture.

• material that plants and animals are made of

• tissue paper

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which of the following details include details that reveal the author's thoughts and feelings?

• Bursting

• but I understood at once, that they had their pursuits (coffee?) and i had mine

• It was a chance of a lifetime

• All of the above

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

_______________ is the way a writer develops and reveals a character's personality and temperament.

• Conflict

• Point of view

• Plot

• Characterization

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What did Dillard most want to see through her microscope?

• cells

• an amoeba

• diatoms

• cork

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

How do Dillard's parents react when she tells them what she discovered when looking through her microscope?

• happy

• unhappy

• interested

• not particularly interested

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What happens that leads the narrator to a realization about life?

• Finally that spring she saw an amoeba.

• The narrator excitedly tries to get her parents to look at the amoeba, and her parents do not share her interest.

• Her parents gave her a microscope kit.

• All she saw in the microscope after a week was a wet chip of dried grass.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What did the narrator realize about life?

• Her parents do not share her interest.

• Her parents do not care about her passions or interests.

• Her interests and passions belong to her alone

• She can make her own life.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

How does Dillard's realization about life affect her?

• This encourages her to follow her passion.

• This discourages her from following her passion.

• She becomes disinterested in science.

• She becomes interested in the pursuit of coffee like her parents.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the meaning of the word enlarged?

• make smaller

• big in size or amount

• make larger

• small in size or amount

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the meaning of the word amoeba?

• single-celled prokaryotes

• single-celled eukaryotes

• single-celled algae

• single-celled animal

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4