Einstein Anderson and the Mighty Ants

Where does the story take place?

• in a pet shop

• in the mountains

• the beach

• Madison Heights, VA

What foolish thing did Stanley buy?

• Pokemon cards

• a Loch Ness Monster

• a hamster wheel

• crickets

a system of managing the production, distribution, and use of money, goods, natural resources, and services

• manager

• farmers

• economy

• sales

How is Stanley different from Paloma and Einstein?

• Stanley is in high school, not middle school

• Stanley thinks he knows everything about science

• Stanley loves math

• Stanley is a science genius

What is different about how Stanley is dressed in this story?

• he is dressed up like Isaac Newton

• He is wearing an ant costume

• he is wearing a suit

• he's wearing jeans, T-shirt, and sneakers

an organization of a group of people who have been given the legal power to act as one person

• corporation

• company

• industry

• McDonald's

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Why won't Stanley's plan work?

• he has no money

• the ants will collapse under their own weight

• he is only going to buy one ant

• ants have an exoskeleton

Why won't the ants have to be trained to work together?

• Ants can read each others minds

• The plan won't work anyway

• They work together naturally

• The ants can read their own to-do lists

to control and make use of

• bossy

• superpowers

• overbearing

• harness

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Why was Stanley disappointed?

• his friends disagreed with him

• he wouldn't be able to make money

• he didn't have enough money to buy the ants

• he couldn't be a CEO