Lesson 13 Quiz

Which sentence from "The Brooklyn Bridge" shows a cause-effect connection?

• "In 1880, Brooklyn was the third-largest city in the United States." (paragraph 1)

• "Because so many people lived in these cities, it was getting hard to travel between them." (paragraph 1)

• "John Roebling was an engineer who had built suspension bridges in places such as Ohio and Niagara Falls." (paragraph 2)

• "In 2018, researchers counted how many people use the bridge." (paragraph 4)

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CCSS.RI.3.8

Which detail from paragraph 1 of "The Brooklyn Bridge" supports the idea that Brooklyn was "already huge"?

• "...opened on May 24, 1883."

• "More than 566,000 people lived there."

• "... you had to cross the Hudson River on a ferry."

• "Riding the ferry cost money and took time."

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CCSS.RI.3.2

Read these sentences from "The Brooklyn Bridge."

Workers started building the Brooklyn Bridge in 1869. It took hundreds of workers fourteen years to complete the bridge.

How are these sentences connected to each other?

• They present events in sequence.

• They compare and contrast two things.

• They describe a solution to a problem.

• They explain a cause and its effect.

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CCSS.RI.3.8

Read this sentence from paragraph 1 of "Going Underground." Congestion was a problem. Which detail from paragraph 1 helps you to understand the meaning of the word congestion?

• "in and around"

• "crowds of people"

• "other big cities"

• "opened its subway"

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CCSS.RI.3.4

Read these sentences from paragraph 1 of "Going Underground."

In London, England, a subway system had been built in 1863. In the United States, the city of Boston had opened its subway system in 1897.

How do these sentences affect the meaning of the passage?

• They show what caused a subway system to be built in New York City.

• They describe the reason why subway systems were built in other cities.

• They show the order in which different cities built a subway system.

• They describe why New York City waited until 1900 to build a subway system.

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CCSS.RI.3.8

Which sentence from "Going Underground" uses a comparison?

• "In 1900, workers started to build the first New York subway line." (paragraph 2)

• "The first subway line went from City Hall all the way north to Harlem." (paragraph 3)

• "Soon, other lines were built that let people travel to and from the neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx." (paragraph 3)

• "Today, the New York Subway system is the largest subway system in the world." (paragraph 4)

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CCSS.RI.3.8