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"Snowflake Bentley"
Contributed by: Bowling
  • 1. What type of genre is this reading selection?
A) poem
B) biography
C) legend
D) autobiography
  • 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 were very curious about snowflakes.
C) Willie’s parents had a lot of money.
D) Willie’s parents both cared very much for their son.
  • 3. Where did Willie grow up?
A) Vermont
B) South Dakota
C) Rhode Island
D) Wisconsin
  • 4. What did Willie discover about snowflakes?
A) Each branch of a snowflake has a different shape and pattern.
B) If he drew quickly, he could copy details of a snowflake.
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 new cow
B) A telescope with its own camera
C) A new tractor
D) A camera with its own microscope
  • 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) picture dark events on film
B) represent bad comments
C) helped create the photo
D) are breakable pieces of a camera
  • 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) Some years it didn't snow.
C) Willie took some winters off
D) It was very difficult to take the photos before the flakes melted or evaporated.
  • 9. What happened to show that Willie was successful?
A) He became rich from his photographs of snowflakes.
B) He found treasures buried in the snow of Vermont.
C) Other scientists raised money so he could publish his pictures.
D) Children came to his slide shows of snowflake photographs.
  • 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 spent hours studying snow crystals with a microscope.
C) He enjoyed snowstorms.
D) He grew up in Vermont.
  • 13. What did Wilson Bentley’s town build to honor him?
A) A park
B) A monument
C) A flagpole
D) A school
  • 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) To pass or push onto another place
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) Change into a gas
B) Get dirty
C) Become hard
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) Finish
C) Influence
D) Sell
  • 17. To make something look bigger than it really is
A) Technique
B) Confuse
C) Foolishness
D) Magnify
  • 18. The act of not showing good sense
A) Evaporate
B) Annual
C) Foolishness
D) Magnify
  • 19. A method or way of bringing about a desired result
A) Magnify
B) Foolishness
C) Technique
D) Evaporate
  • 20. Measured by the year
A) Magnify
B) Inspire
C) Annual
D) Finish
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