The Story of Rubber

Reorder these events chronologically:

• Columbus visits the island of Haiti.

• Rubber samples first reach Europe.

• A commercial demand for rubber is created.

• Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber.

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Understand

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.5

The central idea of the passage revolves around __________.

• the difficulties involved in sourcing quality rubber

• how a unique material was made fit for commercial use

• a single man’s struggle to build a business empire

• the race between two continents to create rubber goods

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Understand

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.2

Logos appeals to the audience's reason and logic.Ethos appeals to the speaker's status or authority.Pathos appeals to the listener’s emotions or feelings.Which of these persuasion techniques is used by Daniel Webster in the passage?

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Evaluate

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6

The term ‘rubber’ came into use because of the material’s ability to (a)   .

• make balls bouncy
• be strong and flexible
• erase pencil marks
• function as ballast

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remember

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.1

And they filled Roxbury with suchnoisomeodors that they had to be taken out at dead of night and buried deep in the earth.Without changing the meaning of the sentence, the underlined word can best be replaced by (a)   .

• dangerous
• offensive
• embarrassing
• mysterious

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Understand

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.4

In the passage,the word ‘infinitesimal’ is closest in meaning to (a)   .

• very small
• very large
• very fine
• very bad

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Understand

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.4

…the science of invention turned a raw product—which had tantalized by its promise andwrought ruin by its treachery—into a manufacture adaptable to a thousand usesWhich of these does the underlined phrase refer to?

• the property of rubber to burn brightly

• rubber’s similarity in appearance to leather

• rubber’s tendency to decompose in the heat

• the discovery that rubber hardened in winters

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Analyze

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.2

Based on the information in the passage, create a newspaper advertisement for the products sold by the firm in Roxbury, Massachusetts that is discussed in the passage.

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Create

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.5