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"Snowflake Bentley" - Quiz
Contributed by: Bowling
  • 1. What type of genre is this reading selection?
A) biography
B) poem
C) autobiography
D) legend
  • 2. Which of the following belongs on the blank line at the bottom of the chart?
A) Willie’s parents knew that he would be famous someday.
B) Willie’s parents both cared very much for their son.
C) Willie’s parents were very curious about snowflakes.
D) Willie’s parents had a lot of money.
  • 3. Where did Willie grow up?
A) Vermont
B) Rhode Island
C) Wisconsin
D) South Dakota
  • 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) If he drew quickly, he could copy details of a snowflake.
D) When a snowflake melts, it leaves a clear print behind.
  • 5. What did Willie want when he was sixteen that would magnify tiny crystals?
A) A camera with its own microscope
B) A new tractor
C) A telescope with its own camera
D) A new cow
  • 6. Which word best describes Willie?
A) Athletic
B) Sad
C) Thoughtful
D) Patient
  • 7. Willie Bentley's first camera made images on large glass negatives. Negatives ______________ .
A) helped create the photo
B) are breakable pieces of a camera
C) picture dark events on film
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) It was very difficult to take the photos before the flakes melted or evaporated.
C) Some years it didn't snow.
D) Willie took some winters off
  • 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 spent hours studying snow crystals with a microscope.
C) He thought snow was as beautiful as butterflies.
D) He enjoyed snowstorms.
  • 13. What did Wilson Bentley’s town build to honor him?
A) A school
B) A flagpole
C) A park
D) A monument
  • 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 found in a playground
B) A glass plate used with a microscope
C) To pass or push onto another place
D) Something used to watch a show
  • 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) Stop falling
D) Change into a gas
  • 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) Influence
B) Confuse
C) Finish
D) Sell
  • 17. To make something look bigger than it really is
A) Technique
B) Foolishness
C) Magnify
D) Confuse
  • 18. The act of not showing good sense
A) Annual
B) Foolishness
C) Magnify
D) Evaporate
  • 19. A method or way of bringing about a desired result
A) Technique
B) Magnify
C) Evaporate
D) Foolishness
  • 20. Measured by the year
A) Annual
B) Magnify
C) Finish
D) Inspire
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