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- 1. Multiple Choice
From SpaceShipOne: Which is the main idea of the passage?
Stinemetze always dreamed of going to space
Stinemetze became a project engineer at Scaled Composites.
Stinemetze earned his bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering.
Stinemetze created a spacecraft that helped develop the private spaceflight industry.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What text structure is this passage?
Problem and solution
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Sequence
- 3. Multiple Choice
What's the theme of this story?
Teamwork makes the dream work
If you want to accomplish your dream, do it yourself
You don't need a team
Teamwork doesn't make the dream work
- 4. Multiple Choice
The central idea of paragraphs 9 through 10 is-
How it was overwhelming
What Matt feels at the start of the flight
How the crowd gathered to watch the flight
Why he wanted to make it a reality
- 5. Multiple Choice
How is paragraph 11 organized and how do you know?
Cause and effect, because it describes how it feels.
Sequence, because its says "countdown" and "it took over an hour"
Description, because it describes it.
Compare and contrast, because it talks about similarities and differences about the topic.
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is the best summary for paragraph 12?
They cheered that they made it back to Earth
They cheered when they made it to space
They circled the sky until they heard mission control say they made it to space, then they celebrated.
The dog ran up the stairs.
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is the way paragraph 15 is organized?
Cause and effect
description
problem and solution
sequence
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the central idea of paragraph 18?
What happened when the spacecraft landed
The practice tests of the spacecraft
The making of the spacecraft
When the spacecraft went to rest after the flight
- 9. Multiple Choice
Read the sentence from page 114.
"A hybrid rocket fueled by a mixture of two substances-in this case, laughing gas and synthetic rubber."
What does hybrid mean as it is used above?
Rocket
Something that is mixed together
synthetic rubber
none of them
- 10. Multiple Choice
Why does the author include the sidebar on page 114?
to show how another person feels about spaceship one
to inform the reader about spaceship one story but another point of view
to give information about spaceship one
not here
- 11. Multiple Choice
How does the picture on page 115 show support for the story?
talks about Spaceship One and the White Knight
talks about the moon
talks about planes
none of the above
- 12. Multiple Choice
On page 119, it shows a diagram of Spaceship One's flight path. Which step is "reentry"?
1
4
7
3
- 13. Multiple Choice
In the story, it says, "The large rocket boosters used to get them off the ground to create a lot of heat and exhaust."
What is a possible meaning for the word exhaust?
haleminihau
exhausted
gas
cars
- 14. Multiple Choice
From SpaceShipOne: According to the passage, what was one of the hardest parts of Stinemetze’s job?
flying in a cramped cockpit
appearing on several talk shows
being unable to tell his family about it
pulling a lever that released a spacecraft
- 15. Multiple Choice
Spaceship one's engine ignited right by the mother ship. What is the meaning of ignited?
fly far
caught on fire
took off
together
- 16. Open Ended
1. What is an advantage of the authors choice to use first person point of view in her writing? How does that give voice to her writing and how does that effect you the reader of her writing?
- 17. Open Ended
1. How did the author use sensory language to help you visualize what happened to him? Was the authors use of sensory and figurative language effect in creating and appropriate voice in this text?
- 18. Open Ended
1. Find an example of figurative language in the text. Write the phrase down and write a few sentences to explain what the author really meant.
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