WorksheetsDA #4 Review!
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 22mins
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Class
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1.
Vocabulary: What is an author's claim or position?
a)
What the author is trying to convince you to do or believe.
b)
How the author views himself/herself.
c)
Who the article is written for.
d)
The main overall topic of the text.
2.
Vocabulary: What is the intended audience?
a)
Whoever is reading the text
b)
The author
c)
Whoever the text is written for
d)
Students at Atkins Middle School.
3.
What type of text is In Defense of the Cockroach?
a)
Expository
b)
Persuasive
c)
Fiction
d)
Poetry
4.
Which sentence from In Defense of the Cockroach best supports the author's claim that we shouldn't dislike cockroaches?
a)
It isn’t as though the roaches’ feelings are being hurt.
b)
They often smell bad, the dust from their feces and molted skin has been linked to childhood asthma.
c)
Cockroaches have been smeared in the press for millennia.
d)
“Butterflies are just really pretty cockroaches.”
5.
Why did the author of In Defense of the Cockroach include paragraph 4?
a)
To show how different cockroaches to butterflies.
b)
To explain why butterflies are as bad as cockroaches.
c)
To emphasis that cockroaches are the same as other bugs that we like.
d)
To respond to people who hate butterflies.
6.
What type of text is Live Cockroach Pulled from Woman's Skull?
a)
Expository
b)
Persuasive
c)
Fiction
d)
Poetry
7.
Which sentence from Live Cockroach Pulled from Woman's Skull expresses an opinion?
a)
A trip to the hospital yielded the cause -- doctors pulled a live cockroach from her skull.
b)
She was complaining of a severe headache and was having difficulty breathing.
c)
The cockroach was pulled out with the help of suction machines and forceps over the course of 45 minutes
d)
"The cockroach had burrowed into the roof of the nose, almost near the skull base, which is the dividing point between the brain and the nose," Shankar said. "It was quite unusual."
8.
What is paragraph 7 in Live Cockroach Pulled from Woman's Skull mainly about?
a)
The woman's symptoms that sent her to the hospital.
b)
The doctor's confusion of what was in her nasal cavity.
c)
The process by which the cockroach was removed.
d)
The cause of the cockroach in her skull.
9.
PAIRED:
Unlike the doctor in "Live Cockroach Pulled from Woman's Skull," the author of "In Defense of the Cockroach" expresses--
Unlike the doctor in "Live Cockroach Pulled from Woman's Skull," the author of "In Defense of the Cockroach" expresses--
a)
disgust for cockroaches and other bugs.
b)
sympathy for cockroaches.
c)
the idea that bugs often burrow into people.
d)
anger for those that allow cockroaches to live in their home.
10.
PAIRED:
Read this excerpt from "Live Cockroach Pulled from Woman's Skull:.
"The cockroach had burrowed into the roof of the nose, almost near the skull base, which is the dividing point between the brain and the nose," Shankar said. "It was quite unusual."
Which sentence from "In Defense of Cockroaches" relates a similar idea?
Read this excerpt from "Live Cockroach Pulled from Woman's Skull:.
"The cockroach had burrowed into the roof of the nose, almost near the skull base, which is the dividing point between the brain and the nose," Shankar said. "It was quite unusual."
Which sentence from "In Defense of Cockroaches" relates a similar idea?
a)
Why should a roach need a P.R. campaign?
b)
Their more numerous grandchildren—“the descendants of the disgusted”—were, in turn, “more disgustable themselves, and so on, till the present day, and us.”
c)
“One of the big myths to dispel right from the get-go: cockroaches do not carry disease,” he told me.
d)
True, they often smell bad, the dust from their feces and molted skin has been linked to childhood asthma, and they can, but rarely do, nibble on sleeping humans
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