Main Idea Questions

Question 1

main idea questions

Answer 1

• read carefully

- use margins

Question 2

which claim comes directly from the text

Answer 2

• The first Anna had large teeth and hated the mosquito
• Angelou believed white kids could be Galileo’s while black children
• the teacher is speaking french but the author
• A&M’s school training
• his teacher’s insults motivated him
• graduation is an important rite of passage
• Westley didn’t want to sit
• the author loves to skim medical books

Question 3

according to the text, the author is sure that the lake will be…

Answer 3

more modern with paved roads

Question 4

what debris is attached to the boat

Answer 4

moss, fishhooks, dead helgramite, and dried blood

Question 5

answers

Answer 5

• the things he loved in the world
• she is disappointed
• Tarsus is a little village
• pleasant and unpredictable but can be lucrative
• the sea; the lake
• the lake