Into the Lifeboat Practice Questions

What is the most likely reason the author includes her observations in paragraph 3?

• To express her own feelings about the events

• To describe how best to respond in an emergency situation

• To show how passengers and crew first reacted when the ship began to sink

• To introduce characters who will be important later in the selection

In paragraph 6, which phrase helps the reader understand the meaning of the word reluctance?

• Titanic seemed so steady

• content to bide their time

• some pointed to a light

• another ship’s lights

In paragraph 7 of the selection, how do passengers react when they are asked to board lifeboats?

• Most passengers decline to board lifeboats, believing that the ship will not sink.

• Most passengers board lifeboats in an orderly way, following the crew’s instructions.

• Some passengers eagerly board lifeboats, while others need encouragement.

• Some passengers refuse to board lifeboats, while others ignore directions from the crew.

Read the sentences from paragraph 15 of the selection.

Looking along the length of the ship, I noticed the forward part of her was lower now, much lower! For a fraction of a second, my heart stood still, as is often the case when faith, hitherto unshaken faith, gets its first setback.

These lines reflect the narrator’s —

• observations on the deck

• sense of time passing

• faith that all will be fine

• first feelings of alarm

Read the sentence from paragraph 22 of the selection.

“Surely it is all a dream,” I thought as I looked up the side of the ship, beautifully illuminated, each deck alive with lights; the dynamos were on the top deck.

Which phrase from the sentence helps the reader understand the meaning of the word illuminated?

• Surely it is all a dream

• as I looked up the side of the ship

• each deck alive with lights

• the dynamos were on the top deck

the boat descended a fearful distance into that inky blackness beneath
(paragraph 21)

• Describes the Lifeboat

• Describes the Titanic

a bone-cracking thud which started the baby crying in earnest (paragraph 23)

• Describes the Lifeboat

• Describes the Titanic

She was getting lower in the water (paragraph 26)

• Describes the Lifeboat

• Describes the Titanic

the women in the boat started to weep (paragraph 27)

• Describes the Lifeboat

• Describes the Titanic

Only three decks now, and still not a list to one side or the other. (paragraph 27)

• Describes the Lifeboat

• Describes the Titanic