WorksheetsTitanic week 3
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Read page 124. What is the mood conveyed by the author on this page?
hopeful
distressed and urgent
complacent
decisive
Setting can best be described using
theme
text structure
imagery
At the beginning of Chapter 9, there are four small lifeboats that were still empty. How many people were still aboard the Titanic?
2,208
1,500
1,000
150
Who could be described as heroes for helping to load the lifeboats?
J. Bruce Ismay
Officer Lightoller
Colonel Gracie
Both Lightoller and Gracie
When the Titanic sank, the temperature of the water was
72 degrees Fahrenheit
32 degrees Fahrenheit
28 degrees Fahrenheit
56 degrees Fahrenheit
Jack Thayer did not die on the Titanic because he
Jumped into Lifeboat 16
Jumped away from the ship
Climbed into Collapsible D
Grabbed and held onto a wooden crate
"She's Gone" the title of chapter 11 refers to
Violet Jessup
Mrs. Thayer
the Titanic
all female passengers
Determine the text evidence from p. 153 that best proves that passengers were freezing to death in the water.
"we longed to return and resuce at least some of the drowning, but we knew it was impossible."
"This terrible cry lasted for twenty or thirty minutes, gradually dying away, as one after another could no longer withstand the cold and exposure..."
"I now felt for the first time...that I had some chance of escape from the horrible fate of drowning."
"We tried to sing to keep from thinking of them..."
Chapter 12 describes the experiences of the 700 people who were in lifeboats. Choose the words that best describe how they were feeling. Choose all that apply.
frigid
starving and thirsty
lenient
perish
Captain Rostron's ship, which was spotted at 4:00am
Californian
Olympia
Titanic
Carpathia
Cold, freezing
frigid
perish
looming
scurried
Not safe; dangerous
foundered
provisions
scurried
precarious
To appear large; exaggerated
looming
precarious
frigid
capsize
Supply of food/necessities
precarious
perish
provisions
lenient
Theme can be described as
dialogue
symbolism
main idea
the message
