Finish "The Flying Machine."
LQ09
"The Flying Machine." Open Book.

1. The Flying One understands why the Emperor is killing him.  a) True  b) False
2. The Emperor enjoys having the Flying One killed.   a) True  b) False
3. The mechanical garden that the Emperor "dreamt to being" represents...  a) how the Emperor is as skillful in his own way as the flying man.  b) the fragility and beauty of the Emperor's kingdom.  c) how China must look from the sky.  d) all of the above.  e)  none of the above.
4. The Emperor has the Flying One killed because... a) he thinks he will drops stones on the Great Wall.  b) he thinks that the man has an evil heart. c) he fears that someone will use the man's invention for evil. d) he is jealous of his inventiveness.  e) none of the above.
5. The Emperor is really afraid of... a) inventiveness.  b) the future.  c) the Flying One.  d) flying machines.  e) NOTA
6. "The butterfly now touches the earth. And suddenly...a clumsy worm." (p246) The Servant is using a _________ to describe the Flying One and his apparatus.  a) simile  b) flashback  c) foreshadowing  d) metaphor  e) NOTA
7. "...The Flying One enters, proud of his feat, proud of his equipments, which he brandishes..."  (p246) The word brandishes as it is used here, most nearly means...  a) drops.  b) shows off.  c) tosses away.  d) puts away.   e) NOTA
8. "The unmarked grave is dug where Time, some little while, must sleep to wake again some other year." (p251) The Emperor is speaking metaphorically, and most likely means...  a) he wishes he could go back in Time and prevent the Flying One from flying. b) he is predicting that soon, man will also be traveling in Time as well as the air. c) that by killing the Flying One, the Emperor has only delayed, not stopped the development of flying. d) he believes that the Flying One will soon be going to Heaven.   e) NOTA

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   LL's Acceptance Speech (p170). Open Book.
9. Lois Lowry says that she wants each reader to create the ending he/she thinks is appropriate.  a) True  b) False
10. She says many readers find the ending a downer, but that's OK. a) True  b) False
11. She compares the writing of this book to the river that flows through the Community.  a) True  b) False
12. She says that if we could forget pain, we might have a better society.   a) True  b) False
13. Which of these theories about the ending does she not relate in her speech?  a) Jonas and Gabriel die.  b) Jonas has gone in a huge circle.  c) Jonas has made it to Heaven.  d) They traveled to a parallel world of the past.  e) She relates all of these theories.

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    Possessive Nouns. Skip if exempt.
14. three _______ tee shirts   a) children's  b) childrens'  c) childrens's
15. the four ______  husbands  a) wive's  b) wives'  c) wives's
16. ________ supreme pizza  a) James'   b) James's
17. those ______ leaves  a) trees'  b) tree's  c) trees's
18. the ______ department  a) women's  b) womens'  c) womens's
19. ...many ____  ideas were good...  a) people's  b) peoples'  c) peoples  d) peoples's
20. ______ Night is Thursday...   a) Parent's  b) Parents's  c) Parents'   (all of them)

Pre-Christmas Mental Floss Blow-out!.

1. Tommy began peeling a pile of 44 potatoes at the rate of 3 per minute. Four minutes later, Sam joined him, and peeled at the rate of 5 potatoes per minute. When they were finished, how many potatoes had each peeled? (Alert: math)
2. Wacky Wordie: What phrase is represented by the following?

Look kool XtXhXeXrXoXaXdX
3. What musical instruments are represented below?
• a)  P O
• b)  BA BA
• c)  ECLART
• d)  @ # $ %
4. What living creature has four legs, eats cat food, and sees equally well from both ends of its body?
5. Add together each of the defined words to get a whole new word.

Example: to shout + what you say when you feel pain = yellow.
• a) A light brown color + to leave =
• b) Vehicle + an animal pal =
• c) A store's announcement + a type of women's clothing  =
6. These groups of three definitions describe three words that are spelled the same, except for one letter. (Example: king, ring, wing.) What are they?

     a) finished, to sleep lightly, a measured quantity
     b) furtive, to secretly observe, an enclosure for pigs
7. You're in a room with three monkeys. The chimp has a stick, the orangutan has a banana, and the gorilla has nothing. Which is the smartest primate in the room?