Maus
IXL
IXL 2
Close Reading
Common Sense
100

Who is Art's Father?

Who is Vladek Spiegelman

100

If you relinquish your claim, what do you do?

a. Give it up

b. state it clearly

What is give it up

100

Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:

"The dog slept under the table during the thunderstorm."

a. The dog
b. under the table
c. slept
d. during the thunderstorm

What is under the table

100

What is the first step in close reading?

What is reading the text?

100

Who ruled over the 13 colonies in the time that Common Sense was written?

Who is Great Britain

200

Art feels (blank) for his mother death.

What is guilty

200

Which is substandard?

a. something of high quality

b. something of low quality

What is something of low quality

200

Choose the sentence that contains a prepositional phrase.

a. She quickly ran across the street.
b. He quickly ran.
c. The book was placed.
d. They were walking.

What is she quickly ran across the street

200

What is the first task you should complete with a pencil in hand?

What is read and annotate

200

What was Thomas Paine's intended purpose for Common Sense? 

What is independence from Great Britain

300

Art feels like this type of book will destroy the story of his father and the holocaust.

What is a comic or graphic novel

300

Which is a fruitless venture?

a. one with unexpected results

b. one with no results

What is one with no results

300

Identify the appositive in the following sentence:

"My brother, a skilled guitarist, is performing at the concert tonight."

a. My brother
b. a skilled guitarist
c. at the concert
d. tonight

What is a skilled guitarist

300

This literary language, where the author gives human qualities to non-human things, is often used to add imagery to a text.

What is personification

300

Who is somebody that encourages the idea of independence from Great Britain?

Who is a patriot

400

Jews are symbolized as this animal.

What are mice

400

Why might an artist be described as peerless?

a. work is better than other artists

b. work is often compared to another artist.

What is work is better than other artists

400

Choose the sentence where the appositive phrase is set off by commas:

a. My friend John is coming to the party.
b. My friend, John, is coming to the party.
c. John my friend is coming to the party.
d. I saw John my friend at the store.

What is My friend, John, is coming to the party.

400

In most storied the main character learns a lesson. this lesson is called the (blank)

What is theme

400

Which philosopher’s ideas about natural rights and government by consent most directly influenced Paine?

Who is John Locke
500

Art struggles with his relationship with his father because of this.

What is generational trauma

500

Who is better described as wakeful?

a. someone with insomnia

b. someone with an alarm clock

What is someone with insomnia

500

Which of the following sentences uses an appositive phrase to provide more detail about the noun?

a. He went to the store to buy some milk.
b. My mother, a doctor, works at the hospital.
c. The teacher spoke to the class.
d. We enjoyed the movie last night.

What is my mother, a doctor, works at the hospital.

500

What is the irony called when the reader knows something that the characters don't?

What is situational irony

500

How many copies did this story sell?

What is over 500,000 copies