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"Snowflake Bentley"
Contributed by: Bowling
  • 1. What type of genre is this reading selection?
A) poem
B) legend
C) biography
D) autobiography
  • 2. Which of the following belongs on the blank line at the bottom of the chart?
A) Willie’s parents had a lot of money.
B) Willie’s parents knew that he would be famous someday.
C) Willie’s parents were very curious about snowflakes.
D) Willie’s parents both cared very much for their son.
  • 3. Where did Willie grow up?
A) Rhode Island
B) Wisconsin
C) South Dakota
D) Vermont
  • 4. What did Willie discover about snowflakes?
A) If he drew quickly, he could copy details of a snowflake.
B) Each branch of a snowflake has a different shape and pattern.
C) When a snowflake melts, it leaves a clear print behind.
D) No two snowflakes are exactly alike.
  • 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) Thoughtful
B) Patient
C) Athletic
D) Sad
  • 7. Willie Bentley's first camera made images on large glass negatives. Negatives ______________ .
A) are breakable pieces of a camera
B) represent bad comments
C) picture dark events on film
D) helped create the photo
  • 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) Willie took some winters off
C) The ice crystals wouldn't grow
D) Some years it didn't snow.
  • 9. What happened to show that Willie was successful?
A) He became rich from his photographs of snowflakes.
B) Children came to his slide shows of snowflake photographs.
C) Other scientists raised money so he could publish his pictures.
D) He found treasures buried in the snow of Vermont.
  • 10. True or False. Willie only took pictures during Winter.
A) False
B) True
  • 11. True or False. Wilson Bentley never grew rich from his research and photographs.
A) True
B) False
  • 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 spent hours studying snow crystals with a microscope.
D) He thought snow was as beautiful as butterflies.
  • 13. What did Wilson Bentley’s town build to honor him?
A) A flagpole
B) A school
C) A monument
D) A park
  • 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) To pass or push onto another place
B) A glass plate used with a microscope
C) Something found in a playground
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) Become hard
B) Change into a gas
C) Stop falling
D) Get dirty
  • 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) Finish
B) Confuse
C) Sell
D) Influence
  • 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) Foolishness
C) Magnify
D) Annual
  • 19. A method or way of bringing about a desired result
A) Evaporate
B) Magnify
C) Foolishness
D) Technique
  • 20. Measured by the year
A) Annual
B) Magnify
C) Inspire
D) Finish
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