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Unit 5 Week 1 Assessment

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Unit 5 Week 1- Benchmark 

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Question 1

1.

What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Wires carried signals over land and across state lines. 

B. Cyrus Field wanted to improve comunication. 

C. Improvements to the telegraph allowed people to communicate across the Atlantic Ocean. 

D. Inventors made a strong cable that could carry signals. 

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Question 2

2.

What sentance from this passage supports the main idea?

A. Feild was sure it was.

B. America and Europe were joined!

C. Engineers built machines for steamships to carry and lay miles and miles of heavy wire. 

D. This time everything worked. 

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Question 3

3.

Use context clues to determine the meaning of engineers.

A.  builder

B. scientist

C. teacher

D. gamer

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Question 4

4.

What happened when the ships set out to lay wire in 1857?

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Question 5

5.

How many years did it take Feild's dream to be achieved?