Unit 1 End Review

1. 1. Part A: What does the word detached mean in paragraph 17 of the story?

• observed

• separated

• bend

• improved

1. 1. Part B: Which detail from paragraph 17 best supports the answer to Part A?

• “And it wasn’t just a “Saturday afternoon with a book” alone.”

• “Because we travel 17,500 miles an hour, ninety minutes is one lap around the Earth.”

• “I felt that I was by myself, and everything that I knew and loved and that made me feel comfortable was far away.”

• “It gets cold, and I could feel that coldness, and I could sense the darkness coming.”

1. 2. Part A: From the text evidence, the author wants the reader to know about him is

• lazy and brave

• angry and boring

• adventurous and hard-working

• smart and disrespectful

2. 2. Part B: Which two details from the story best support the answer Part A? Pick 2

• "So I decided I wanted to go to graduate school, and I was lucky enough to get accepted to MIT.”

• “And I said, “I really don’t know, Dave. You’re gonna have to tell me.””

• “But through the corner of my eye, through my helmet, you know, just the side there, I can kinda see that he’s trying to get my attention.”

• “But I thought, At least if I’m going down, I’m going down with my best pal.”

• “Thirteen years after that, it’s May 17, 2009, and I’m on space shuttle Atlantis, about to go out and do a spacewalk on the Hubble Space Telescope. And our task that day was to repair an instrument that had failed.”

1. 3. Read the paragraph below:

“I felt this deep loneliness. And it wasn’t just a “Saturday afternoon with a book” alone. I felt…detached from the Earth. I felt that I was by myself, and everything that I knew and loved and that made me feel comfortable was far away. And then it started getting dark and cold. Because we travel 17,500 miles an hour, ninety minutes is one lap around the Earth. So it’s forty-five minutes of sunlight and forty-five minutes of darkness. And when you enter the darkness,  it is not just darkness. It’s the darkest black I have ever experienced. It’s the complete absence of light. It gets cold, and I could feel that coldness, and I could sense the darkness coming. And it just added to my loneliness. ”

What is the overall tone of the paragraph?

• anger

• joyful

• excitement

• loneliness

Which event would be FIRST in the summary?

• Mike was accepted into MIT and completed graduate school there.

• He was rejected two times at NASA by a letter and a third time after a phone interview. He was accepted the 4th time after a phone call from Dave Leestma.

• After multiple tries to get the panel off, he felt alone in space trying to fix the telescope.

• Mike watches the movie The Right Stuff and makes him want to become an astronaut.

• After 13 years of training, he is on space shuttle Atlantis to do a spacewalk to repair the Hubble Telescope.

Which event would be SECOND in the summary?

• Mike was accepted into MIT and completed graduate school there.

• He was rejected two times at NASA by a letter and a third time after a phone interview. He was accepted the 4th time after a phone call from Dave Leestma.

• After multiple tries to get the panel off, he felt alone in space trying to fix the telescope.

• After 13 years of training, he is on space shuttle Atlantis to do a spacewalk to repair the Hubble Telescope.

Which event would be THIRD in the summary?

• He was rejected two times at NASA by a letter and a third time after a phone interview. He was accepted the 4th time after a phone call from Dave Leestma.

• After multiple tries to get the panel off, he felt alone in space trying to fix the telescope.

• After 13 years of training, he is on space shuttle Atlantis to do a spacewalk to repair the Hubble Telescope.

What would be the FOURTH event in the summary?

• After multiple tries to get the panel off, he felt alone in space trying to fix the telescope.

• After 13 years of training, he is on space shuttle Atlantis to do a spacewalk to repair the Hubble Telescope.

• He was accepted the 4th time after a phone call from Dave Leestma.

What would be the FIFTH event in the summary?

• After 13 years of training, he is on space shuttle Atlantis to do a spacewalk to repair the Hubble Telescope.

• After multiple tries to get the panel off, he felt alone in space trying to fix the telescope.