Nonfiction Jeopardy

8.2A

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Question 1: What does the word articulate mean in paragraph 7?

A. Fluent

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Question 2: What does the word posthumously mean in paragraph 4?

H. After death

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Question 15: What does the word feat mean in paragraph 1?

D Accomplishment

8.7 Fig D

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Question 3: In what way was Douglas a "grandmother" to the Everglades?

D She cared for and protected them.

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Question 16: Which would Douglas have considered the most important result of her work?

F The Everglades Preservation Act

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Question 8: The author wants the reader to believe that Marjory Stoneman Douglas-

G supported several worthwhile causes.

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Question 9: What was Douglas' main argument for preserving the Everglades?

D If the Everglades died, so too would the rest of South Florida.

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Question 12: Which of these best describes Marjory Stoneman Douglas?

G Determined

8.7 Fig E

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Question 4: How was Douglas different after she moved to Florida?

G She became a writer.

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Question 5: What is the main idea of this selection?

C Marjory Stoneman Douglas devoted much of her life to saving the Everglades.

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Question 6: Both Douglas' autobiography and her best-selling book in 1947 describe the Everglades as-

J a river.

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Question 10: Why is Lake Okeechobee important to the Everglades?

G It overflows into the Everglades.

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Question 11: Douglas established "Friends of the Everglades" because-

D the Everglades were in danger.

Other

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Question 7: What is the main theme of this selection?

B Defending fragile ecosystems is important.

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Question 13: What did Marjory Stoneman Douglas see in the Everglades?

D An endangered ecosystem

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Question 14: How did the author organize this selection?

H By recounting the events in Marjory Stoneman Douglas' life in the order in which they happened

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Question 17: According to the selection, evaporation from the Everglades results in rain that eventually-

B returns to the Everglades as lake overflow.