"Snowflake Bentley"

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

3. Where did Willie grow up?

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

4. What did Willie discover about snowflakes?

A) When a snowflake melts, it leaves a clear print behind.
B) If he drew quickly, he could copy details of a snowflake.
C) No two snowflakes are exactly alike.
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 cow
B) A camera with its own microscope
C) A new tractor
D) A telescope with its own camera

6. Which word best describes Willie?

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

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

A) represent bad comments
B) picture dark events on film
C) are breakable pieces of a camera
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) Some years it didn't snow.
B) It was very difficult to take the photos before the flakes melted or evaporated.
C) The ice crystals wouldn't grow
D) Willie took some winters off

9. What happened to show that Willie was successful?

A) Children came to his slide shows of snowflake photographs.
B) He found treasures buried in the snow of Vermont.
C) He became rich from his photographs of snowflakes.
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 spent hours studying snow crystals with a microscope.
B) He grew up in Vermont.
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 flagpole
B) A school
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) To pass or push onto another place
B) A glass plate used with a microscope
C) Something used to watch a show
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) Become hard
B) Get dirty
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) Sell
B) Influence
C) Finish
D) Confuse

17. To make something look bigger than it really is

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

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) Foolishness
B) Evaporate
C) Technique
D) Magnify

20. Measured by the year

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

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