Newton and Copernicus: Assessment (7-11)
1: What is a gag in a comic strip?
(a)
great action gimmick
(c)
ex: a pie in the face
(b)
(d)
joke, twist, or punch line
the objects in the background
2: What does it mean when a character’s eyes are crossed and out of alignment?
(a)
they are angry
(b)
they are sad
(c)
something just hit them (d)
they are dizzy or light-headed
3: What does the term imply mean?
(a)
hire for a job
(c)
breath in
(b)
(d)
hint at or indicate
threaten
4: What does the term implanted mean? (verb)
(a)
to place inside a body
(b)
to put a seed in the ground
(c)
to imply something
(d)
to infiltrate a criminal organization
5: What is an implant (noun)
(a)
a spy
(c)
to bury something
(b)
(d)
technology placed inside a body
a transplanted organ
6: A person who handles equipment and materials in a lab to support the work of a scientist.
(a)
graduate student
(b)
assistant
(c)
technician
(d)
coordinator
7: In this series, UPPERCASE letters are used when
(a)
when rats are talking
(b)
when people are talking
(c)
only for thinking
(d)
to emphasize a point
8: The study of dinosaurs
(a)
geology
(c)
historical biology
(b)
(d)
paleontology
anatomy
9: The volume of a cylinder and the area of a pyramid are found using…
(a)
physics
(b)
astronomy
(c)
geometry
(d)
chemistry
10: E=mc2, the mass-energy equivalence formula, was the work of
(a)
Isaac Newton
(b)
Nicolae Copernicus
(c)
Albert Einstein
(d)
Carl Sagan
A Newton and Copernicus Companion: Copyright August 2007, J.C. Olson.