The Briefcase - Comprehension

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English
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10th Grade
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Eric Russo
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
1A: In lines 43-44, when the professor’s papers are described as “a thousand doves flailing against the walls of the alley” the author most likely means...
that the professor carried birds around.
the papers spilled out and blew all over.
the professor was a messy person.
the chef didn’t know what to do with the briefcase.
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
1B: The evidence that best supports your response above is . . .
The chef ran after them all, stopped them with his feet and arms, herded them back into the case.
Pages of numbers, or arrows and notes, and hand-drawn star maps.
Here were business cards: a professor of physics.
Envelops showed his name and address.
B, C, & D.
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
2A: In lines 61–63, the narrator says that the chef “knew this: he had moved from his line of men, creating a vacuum—one that had sucked the good professor in to fill the void.” The author chose the words vacuum and void because they . . .
create alliteration and a musical quality.
refer to concepts in the field of physics.
are words that a professional chef would use often.
have special meaning in the context of a revolution.
Tags
CCSS.RL.1.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
4.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
2B: The 2 pieces of evidence that best support your response to part A are . . . .
“The chef knew nothing of physics.”
“He understood chemistry only insofar as it related to the baking time of bread…”
“His knowledge of biology was limited to deboning chickens…”
And what did he know at all of moving bodies and gravity?
“The question at the end, a good one.”
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“Whereas: If it was we who turn, how can we so flagrantly leave behind that which has warmed us and given us light? If we are moving, then each turn is a turn away. Each revolution a revolt.”
3A: In this passage, “flagrantly” most likely means
secretively
quickly
excitedly
blatantly
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
3B: The words or phrases that best reveal this meaning are:
“... leave behind that which has warmed us and given us light?”
“Each revolution is a revolt.”
“If we are moving, then each turn is a turn away.”
“Whereas: If it is we who turn . . . ““Whereas: If it is we who turn . . . “
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
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