Vocabulary
comprehension
comprehension 2
comprehension 3
mixture
100
What is the vocabulary word meaning terrified?
Aghast
100
What is the time Paul Revere makes his ride
Midnight
100
What Paul Revere's friend climbed in order to display his signal?
The Belfry in the old North Church
100
What is the meaning based on the following lines of the personality trait belonging to the historical character Paul Revere? A. Brave B. Quiet C. Cowardly
A. brave
100
What is the date of Paul Revere's ride?
April 18th, 1775
200
What is the vocabulary word meaning danger?
Peril
200
What is a pair of words that best captures the nature of Paul Revere's heroism? A. daring and spite B. daring and patriotism C. patriotism and anger D. Recklessness and anger
B. daring and patriotism
200
What are figures of historical characters in literature?
Characters who really have lived at some time during the past
200
What does the phrase in these lines refer? And the meeting- house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon
The bloodshed of war
200
What is artfully sly and secretive
stealthy
300
What is the vocabulary word meaning belonging to a guard or sentry
sentinels
300
What is Paul Revere's mission is to?
warn the other colonists of any movement by British troops
300
What are the three towns Paul Revere rode through that night?
Medford, Lexington, and Concord
300
What is the author's purpose? And yet, through the gloom and the light,/ The fate of a nation was riding that night...
To stress how importance of what occurred
300
What is dark and gloomy A. somber B. spectral C. tranquil
somber
400
What is acting suddenly or impulsively?
impetuous
400
What is the meaning of the signals?
one if by land and two if by sea
400
Which of the following statements about historical characters is accurate? A. Like fictional characters, historical characters are often involved in conflicts B. are half real and half imaginary C. are always portrayed as heroic
A. often involved in conflicts
400
What is the author's purpose Through all the history, to the last,/ In the hour of darkness and peril and need,/ The people will waken and listen to hear/ The hurrying of hoof beats of that steed...
To stress the importance of Paul Revere's mission
400
What is phantomlike; ghostly
spectral
500
The crying of sheep
bleating
500
What is the meaning of the passage from Paul Revere's Ride.. "And the spark struck out by that steed in his flight/ Kindled the land into flame with it's heat"
Paul Revere sparked a rebellion across the colonies
500
What is the author's purpose in the following lines? A hurry of hoofs in a village street,? A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,/ And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark/ Struck out by the steed flying fearless and fleet.
Author wants to stress that Paul Revere was on horseback
500
What is author's purpose? "Listen, my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere... Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year."
Author wants to tell a story that should not be forgotten
500
What is the opposite in meaning of tranquil? A. noisy B.motionless C. modest
A. noisy
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