Unit 5 Week 1 & 2 Review - still editing

This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.

1. Part A

What is the central idea of the passage?

• Thomas Edison changed movie making forever.

• Movies have become more expensive to produce and easier to watch.

• Adding sound and color made movies more appealing and more popular.

• Movies are a special source of entertainment that have changed over time

1. Part B

Which sentence from the passage expresses the central idea from Part A?

• “Viewers were amazed at how filmed objects and humans appeared to be moving, and the Kinetoscope soon became very popular.” (paragraph 2)

• “Moving picture companies organized into film studios and began promoting actors and actresses, who quickly became stars.” (paragraph 4)

• “Films began to look like the movies we know today.” (paragraph 5)

• “With sound or without, in color or black and white, movies have created joy and amazement in viewers for more than a hundred years.” (paragraph 7)

2. Read this sentence from the passage.

   “A few years later, in 1889, Thomas Edison developed a machine called the Kinetoscope.” (paragraph 2)

   The word Kinetoscope is based on the Greek root kine, meaning “motion.” What does this information suggest about the Kinetoscope described in the sentence?

• It cost a lot of money.

• It showed moving images.

• It was difficult to operate.

• It was unable to be moved.

Which two sentences from paragraph 5 support the idea that films eventually started to look like the movies we know today?

• “At that point, movies were silent, accompanied only with music and sometimes with written titles.”

• “Filmmakers had been trying to figure out how to use sound with film for years.”

• “Thomas Edison had produced a machine that included sound, but he was not able to get the sound to work correctly with the images on film.”

• “Finally, in 1927, Warner Brothers Studio produced the first film with sound, The Jazz Singer.”

• “In 1935, color films were first produced.”

Read this sentence from the passage.

“It used a sound-on-disc system that synced the movie projector with a phonograph.” (paragraph 5)

The word phonograph is based on the Greek prefix phono-, meaning “sound,” and the Greek root graph, meaning “draw or write.” This information suggests that a phonograph is an early version of which device?

• a movie

• a camera

• a record player

• an electric piano

We love the movies because they entertain us.

• They entertain us

• They are boring

• They are irrelevant

• They are outdated

A zoetrope is a device that creates the illusion of motion by spinning a sequence of images.

• A device that creates the illusion of motion by spinning sequential images.

• A type of camera.

• A device for playing music.

• A kind of microscope.