Captain Arsenio

Which character trait best describes Captain Arsenio?

• Hopless

• Determined

• Sad

• Annoyed

What is the genre of Captain Arsenio?

• Non-fiction

• Science-Fiction

• Folktale

• Fantasy

Captain Arsenio was very successful in all his other jobs. (cheese master, blacksmith, scuba diver, ship captain).

• True

• False

Literary elements include:

• Characters

• Setting

• Events

• All of the above

How do we know about Captain Arsenio?

• His diary was found years ago.

• He was in the newspaper.

• People learned about him from TV.

• He was famous for being a scuba diver.

What is the main idea of the section titled “The End and the Beginning”?

• Captain Arsenio always had easy jobs.

• Captain Arsenio was bad at everything he tried.

• Captain Arsenio had jobs most people would have enjoyed doing.

• Captain Arsenio was not interested in most of the things he had tried

Paragraph 4 says that Captain Arsenio showed determination during his flight experiments. What is the meaning of determination as it is used in paragraph 4?

• humor

• gratitude

• will power

• intelligence

How does Captain Arsenio react to the challenges he faces?

• He gives up easily.

• He keeps trying new things.

• He blames everything on someone else.

• He repeats what has worked for him in the past.

How do the entries from Captain Arsenio’s flight diary compare with the other sections of the passage?

• They discuss the people who helped him build his machines.

• They talk about where he learned to build flight machines.

• They provide more detail about his experiments.

• They explain why he stopped his experiments.

In paragraph 3 the narrator tells us that Captain Arsenio's jobs were the easiest but yet he was not good in any of them. What can we infer about him?

• He is a very intelligent individual.

• He needs to work for NASA.

• He is a rich man.

• He is not a very successful individual.