"Snowflake Bentley"

1. What type of genre is this reading selection?

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

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

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

3. Where did Willie grow up?

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

4. What did Willie discover about snowflakes?

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

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

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

6. Which word best describes Willie?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happened to show that Willie was successful?

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

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

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

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

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) Sell
B) Influence
C) Confuse
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) Foolishness
B) Magnify
C) Annual
D) Evaporate

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

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

20. Measured by the year

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

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