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WorksheetsShutting Out The Sky Chapters 1 & 2 Review
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Taking a long vacation is a luxury.
circumstance
high-priced pleasure
challenge
silly expense
My father knows lots of immigrants.
people who travel from place to place for pleasure.
field workers who move as the season change
people who move to another country to live there
people who do not have homes
There were special ________________ that kept me from going to school today.
immigrants
poverty
excerpt
circumstances
Most Americans are _______________ from immigrants
luxury
descended
persecution
poverty
Don't ____________________ against people based on nationality, gender, or occupation.
shift
tone
emigrant
discriminate
The _________________ left her home country of Ireland to travel to America.
emigrant
excerpt
persecution
ventured
Many people flee, or leave their countries to escape ___________________.
advice
shift
persecution
emigrant
The family was very poor and lived in ___________.
paraphrase
advised
poverty
descended
What two pieces of text evidence support the statement "Rose and Leonard were disappointed by what they found in America."
"His father seemed so much taller and stronger than he remembered."
"All the warm sunlight and fresh air of his mountain home in Italy had been replaced by four walls and people everywhere."
"Rose Cohen was bewildered at her first sight of New York."
"I felt a thrill: Am I really in America at last? But the next moment, I felt a little disappointed, a little homesick."
"As he looked around, Leonard couldn't help feel a little overwhelmed at first."
In the section "First Impressions", what is the main idea?
Rose and Leonard were excited to start their new life in America.
Rose and Leonard were sad to leave their home country.
Rose and Leonard were disappointed by what they found in America.
America was everything they had hoped it would be.
What are two main ideas of the section "Where Will They Live"?
Living in New York during this time was dangerous for women and children.
The need for quick and inexpensive housing, for so many, caused builders and landlords to construct poorly built apartments, and not maintain them.
Immigrants living in tenement housing suffered poor living conditions.
The living conditions in the tenements were the immigrants fault.
What does reform mean?
to make laws
to fix or make better
to build new
to travel
Why would landlords and builders not improve the living conditions for immigrant housing?
The immigrants were disrespectful to the American culture.
The builders and landlords did not have the money to make improvements.
The landlords and builders knew that with so many people needing housing they did not have to improve.
It was against the law to improve buildings that were occupied.
What state is Ellis Island located?
Virginia
Califorina
New York
Washigton
TRUE or FALSE. Paraphrase means to "put it in your own words"
TRUE
FALSE
Check all things we CANNOT change when paraphrasing
Dates
Names
Colors
Punctuation
TRUE or FALSE. New York was very crowded with immigrants.
TRUE
FALSE
Which of the following was NOT something Maurice saw on the streets when he arrived in New York?
Children playing in the streets
Children doing schoolwork
Crowds of people
Vendors selling things from carts
What did many immigrants realize after moving to America?
A. Religious persecution was still a problem in America.
B. It was more difficult to become wealthy in America than they had thought.
C. Money wasn't as important in America as it was in their home country.
D. Families would have to live separately in order to afford rent.
How do you determine the MAIN IDEA(S) of a passage? Select all correct responses.
Read the entire passage
Decide one or more topics present in the passage
Choose an answer containing words you do not understand
Choose an answer before carefully reading all the choices
Read the answer choices and decide which choices most closely match yours
Define the underlined word as it is used in this excerpt from Shutting Out the Sky.
Immigrant Pauline Newman led a rent strike in her Madison Street tenement building in 1907, when she was about nineteen years old. When the landlord asked for a rent increase, she organized the tenants, who told the landlord they would pay higher rent if he would put a toilet in the hall.
hit forcibly and deliberately
occur suddenly and have harmful or damaging effects on
a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest
a sudden attack, typically a military one
How does this chapter relate to the title, Shutting Out the Sky?
Some immigrants are wanting something different, not wanting their “shy to be shut out” so they are learning English and getting an education.
The sky gave comfort to people when they missed their families.
The buildings were shutting the sky out of view.
Immigrants were stressed that their life would never be like Americans.
