"Snowflake Bentley"

1. What type of genre is this reading selection?

A) autobiography
B) biography
C) poem
D) legend

2. Which of the following belongs on the blank line at the bottom of the chart?

A) Willie’s parents were very curious about snowflakes.
B) Willie’s parents both cared very much for their son.
C) Willie’s parents had a lot of money.
D) Willie’s parents knew that he would be famous someday.

3. Where did Willie grow up?

A) Wisconsin
B) South Dakota
C) Rhode Island
D) Vermont

4. What did Willie discover about snowflakes?

A) Each branch of a snowflake has a different shape and pattern.
B) No two snowflakes are exactly alike.
C) When a snowflake melts, it leaves a clear print behind.
D) If he drew quickly, he could copy details of a snowflake.

5. What did Willie want when he was sixteen that would magnify tiny crystals?

A) A telescope with its own camera
B) A new tractor
C) A camera with its own microscope
D) A new cow

6. Which word best describes Willie?

A) Patient
B) Sad
C) Athletic
D) Thoughtful

7. Willie Bentley's first camera made images on large glass negatives. Negatives ______________ .

A) represent bad comments
B) helped create the photo
C) are breakable pieces of a camera
D) picture dark events on film

8. Why was it that some years Willie was able to make only a few dozen good snowflake pictures?

A) It was very difficult to take the photos before the flakes melted or evaporated.
B) The ice crystals wouldn't grow
C) Some years it didn't snow.
D) Willie took some winters off

9. What happened to show that Willie was successful?

A) He found treasures buried in the snow of Vermont.
B) He became rich from his photographs of snowflakes.
C) Children came to his slide shows of snowflake photographs.
D) Other scientists raised money so he could publish his pictures.

10. True or False. Willie only took pictures during Winter.

A) True
B) False

11. True or False. Wilson Bentley never grew rich from his research and photographs.

A) False
B) True

12. Which was the best sign that Willie would grow up to be a scientist?

A) He thought snow was as beautiful as butterflies.
B) He grew up in Vermont.
C) He spent hours studying snow crystals with a microscope.
D) He enjoyed snowstorms.

13. What did Wilson Bentley’s town build to honor him?

A) A school
B) A monument
C) A park
D) A flagpole

14. Read this sentence. Willie had to slide the snowflake onto the black tray and take its picture. Which meaning of slide best fits the way it is used in this sentence?

A) A glass plate used with a microscope
B) Something found in a playground
C) Something used to watch a show
D) To pass or push onto another place

15. Read this sentence. He had to work fast or the snowflake would evaporate. What does the word evaporate mean?

A) Get dirty
B) Become hard
C) Change into a gas
D) Stop falling

16. Read this sentence from the article. Artists and designers used the photographs to inspire their own work. Which word means about the same as inspire?

A) Confuse
B) Influence
C) Sell
D) Finish

17. To make something look bigger than it really is

A) Magnify
B) Technique
C) Foolishness
D) Confuse

18. The act of not showing good sense

A) Evaporate
B) Annual
C) Magnify
D) Foolishness

19. A method or way of bringing about a desired result

A) Technique
B) Evaporate
C) Magnify
D) Foolishness

20. Measured by the year

A) Annual
B) Finish
C) Inspire
D) Magnify

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