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2-9 Heartbreak in a Cloud

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2-9 Heartbreak in a Cloud

After reading Heartbreak in a Cloud, please complete the following questions.

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Question 1

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This question has two parts. Answer Part A and then Part B.
Part A
Which sentence states the main idea of the passage?

Author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s family suffered when grasshoppers
attacked their farm.

The year 1874 was not the first time settlers experienced a grasshopper plague.

Grasshoppers were among many challenges faced by settlers in the 1870s.

The 1874 invasion of grasshoppers caused huge hardships for settlers.

Question 2

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Part B
Choose two details from the passage that support the main idea in Part A.

Laura saw grasshoppers landing on everything.

The grasshoppers came to an area that was very hot and dry.

Many farmers lost all their crops to the grasshoppers.

Some people earned money by working at other jobs.

The grasshoppers forced many settlers to give up and move away.

Question 3

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What does this sentence mean?
She watched the insects approaching like a dark cloud.

There were so many insects they filled the sky.

The grasshoppers were large and dark.

There were dark clouds in the sky near the insects.

The insects came at the same time as a storm cloud.

Question 4

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In paragraph 5, what does the word ravenous mean?

not friendly

of or like insects

extremely hungry

having no value

Question 5

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Which sentence tells what the farmers did to prepare themselves for the next invasion of grasshoppers?

“They built smoky fires around their fields.” 

“They gave up and moved away.”

“They also built up reserves of food and grain.”

“They feared the return of the ravenous invaders that had wrecked so many lives.”