Paired Passages
Quiz by Karen Petersen
Feel free to use or edit a copy
includes Teacher and Student dashboards
Measure skillsfrom any curriculum
Measure skills
from any curriculum
Tag the questions with any skills you have. Your dashboard will track each student's mastery of each skill.
With a free account, teachers can
- edit the questions
- save a copy for later
- start a class game
- automatically assign follow-up activities based on students’ scores
- assign as homework
- share a link with colleagues
- print as a bubble sheet
11 questions
Show answers
- Q1The title of the selection highlights the idea that shipping containers -can function in ways that are not commonly consideredare useful for creating large pieces of artare not as sturdy as people assumeshould be deconstructed before they are used for projects120s
- Q2What is the main idea of paragraph 5?Artists must reshape the shell of the shipping container to make sculptures.Museums are using shipping containers as galleries to share their collections.Artists see the potential of incorporating shipping containers into their art.Storing and moving art pieces in shipping containers are simple processes.120s
- Q3Which sentence from the selection supports the idea that creating structures from shipping containers is cost-efficient?Urban areas and colleges that struggle to provide affordable housing have also begun to explore building container housing and work spaces.With all these options and new purposes, fewer shipping containers will be headed to the junkyard.Shipping containers are used to haul cargo on ships, trains, and trucks.One trend that has gained popularity is creating houses from retired shipping containers120s
- Q4Which words from paragraph 2 help the reader understand what scant means?extreme water shortageproblem could be solvedeven though the rainfallcoastal location120s
- Q5Which sentence from the selection explains why the water produced by the billboard is significant?Because of the scarcity of water, one out of every 10 residents has no access to running water.The water vapor in the air condenses, becoming liquid water.The water then flows through pipes into a storage tank at the foot of the billboard.Lima, the capital city of the South American country of Peru, is located near the Pacific Ocean in the Sechura Desert.120s
- Q6The organizational pattern of the selection allows the author to -compare different companies' approaches to solving a problemdescribe how the lack of a necessary resource affects the local peopleexplain how a problem became worse over timehighlight the steps taken to address a specific need120s
- Q7The author wrote this selection most likely to-suggest that billboards are an effective way to advertise productsreveal that water scarcity is a major issue in Peruhighlight a partnership that created an interesting solution to a problemdescribe the process of turning moisture in the air into drinkable water120s
- Q8One difference between the selections "Breaking Out of the Box" and "A Bountiful Billboard" is that "A Bountiful Billboard"-discusses the future potential of an ideacompares various uses for the same materialfocuses on a project specific to a locationexpresses concerns about a new idea120s
- Q9What is one important benefit of shipping container apartment buildings and the billboard in Lima?Both provide a resource to a community.Both are found in urban and rural areas.Both prevent landfills from overflowing.Both inform people about an opportunity.120s
- Q10Read this sentence from "Breaking Out of the Box." By cutting out hallways and creatively stacking the containers, engineers are maximizing the use of the boxes. Which sentence from "A Bountiful Billboard" is related to this idea?But the citizens of Lima and other cities in arid regions around the world are hopeful.They made a billboard that extracted moisture from the air and converted it into drinkable water.This can supply hundreds of families with water each month.Additionally, UTEC recorded a 28 percent increase in enrollment since the installation of the billboard.120s
- Q11Both selections explore ideas that involve-redesigning an object to serve a new purposerecycling materials that are typically considered trashusing technology to keep the environment cleancollaborating to solve an urban problem120s