"To Fly" Quiz

2. Does the author use comparison-and-contrast or cause-and-effect as their organizational structure?

2. What idea does this comparison-and-contrast help the author explain? (Write ALL correct answers)

10. How was the Wright brothers’ flight different from earlier flights?

3. Myopic

1. What is the author’s purpose for writing this passage?

2. In paragraph 4, what two different things does the author compare and contrast?

2. My mother’s ____ in packing an umbrella based on the weather forecast kept me from getting soaked by the rain.

NOTES: Present similarities and differences among two or more items or ideas

3. The author’s first novel turned out to be a ____ writing.

4. Which invention did Tyson claim was most significant?

2. stop something before it happens

4. Would you forestall a surprise birthday party if the birthday girl wasn’t ready?

5. What animal does the author compare humans to?

3. What is NOT a reason the V-2 Rocket is significant? (Write down the reasons they are significant.)

NOTES: Shows how one situation can result from another and then lead to yet another

3. If an actor is in the foreground, what part of the stage is he on?

5. predict the future

1. How does Tyson respond to Kelvin’s assertion?

7. Why is the lunar module named the Eagle?

3. Which words should be underlined? (Underline ALL correct answers.)

1. In paragraph 3, what allusions does the author make?

2. Why does Tyson provide information about the speed of sound?

4. Good grades will _____ you to get into the college you want to attend.

6. Taylor is _____ and always knows what his friend is going to say next.

5. Prescient

8. Why does Tyson make these allusions?

7. What is the name of the lunar module mentioned in the text?

5. Why does Tyson compare humans to birds?

1. The child’s ___ made it clear that they did not understand why what they had done was wrong.

5. What is a likely result of using foresight before going on vacation?

4. an advance warning

NOTES: What is NOT something you should always capitalize? (List the things you SHOULD capitalize, the wrong answers.)

NOTES: Expository writing is nonfiction writing that ________.

1. Would you be giving a forewarning if you were discussing an event from last year?

1. Enable

5. What comparison is Tyson making when he compares humans to birds?

1. What idea do these allusions support?

4. Naivete

NOTES: Uses words or phrases that appeal to the senses

NOTES: The Old English prefix fore- means ______, ________, or _______.

3. Explain how you identified the comparison-and-contrast text structures. (Write BOTH correct answers.)

6. Seminal

2. Which words should be underlined? (Underline ALL correct answers.)

3. What is NOT an invention Tyson discusses in this text? (Write down the inventions that are discussed on #3.)

NOTES: References in a text to well-known people, places, characters, myths, events, or works of literature or art

8. Which is NOT an allusion the author makes in the text?

NOTES: What is NOT something you should always capitalize? (List the things you SHOULD capitalize, the wrong answers.)

3. the area in the front

1. the act of thinking about what will happen

4. Choose the sentence that is capitalized correctly.

10. How was the Wright brothers’ flight similar to earlier flights?

1. According to Lord Kelvin, why would human flight be impossible?

9. What would be the the effect of building a space station according the the magazine piece excerpted in our text?

2. If someone is able to foretell an event, when does the event take place?

4. Choose the sentence that is capitalized correctly.

5. Thomas’s _____ view kept him from understanding what the teacher was trying to explain to him.

3. In paragraph 6, what descriptive elements does the author include?

2. Foresight

1. Choose the sentence that is capitalized correctly.

3. Choose the sentence that is capitalized correctly.

4. Which is NOT a descriptive word or phrase that make the new community center seem appealing?

1. What do these illusions have in common?

6. Why can people fly faster than the speed of sound but not faster than the speed of light?

1. Which words should be underlined? (Underline ALL correct answers.)