Gladys Aylward

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Making Inferences:
Gladys finally returned to England because she was driven out of China.

faulty inference

correct inference

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What is the author's purpose in writing "Gladys Aylward: Journey to Safety"?

To encourage the reader to act bravely.

To entertain the reader with an adventure story.

To inform the reader about Gladys Aylward's bravery.

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Finding the Main Idea:
Gladys Aylward was a missionary who spent many years helping the people of China.

Too narrow

Too broad

Main idea

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Making Inferences:
Women and children were often killed in the war between China and Japan.

faulty inference

correct inference

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What does the author imply by saying that the children "thought of [Gladys Aylward] always as their mother"?

The children were too young to remember their own mothers.

The children no longer loved their own mothers.

The children loved Gladys and were grateful to her.

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One of the biggest problems Gladys and the children faced was

wild animals.

lack of food.

blinding snow storms.

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What effect id the destroyed train tracks on the route to Sian have on Gladys and the children?

They had to return to the mountains.

They had to take the boat to the city.

They had to wait beside the tracks for three days.

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On the first night of the journey, Gladys and the children slept

in a deserted village.

in an old temple.

out in the open among the rocks.

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Upon reading Sian, Gladys took the children to

a temple.

an orphanage.

their parents.

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Gladys tried to keep the children's spirits up by

singing songs and telling stories.

stopping to let the children swim in mountain streams.

carrying the children's blankets, bowls, and chopsticks for them.

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Making Inferences:
If the Japanese had not been invading northern China, Gladys would have stayed in her village.

correct inference

faulty inference

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Most of the children who struggled over the mountains were between

10 and 12 years old.

four and eight years old.

three and six years old.

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Finding the Main Idea:
Gladys kept the children's spirits up enough for them to keep walking, even when they were starving and in pain.

Too narrow

Main idea

Too broad

14.

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Making Inferences:
All civilians leaving northern China during that time followed the same route that Gladys followed.

faulty inference

correct inference

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Choose the best one-sentence paraphrase for the following sentence from the article:
"By then the children had holes in their shoes, and the bottoms of their feet were cut, blistered, and bleeding."

The children did not have very good shoes.

The children took off their shoes and walked in their bare feet.

The children's shoes were torn, and their feet hurt terribly.

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Finding the Main Idea:
Gladys Aylward rescued a hundred homeless Chinese children by leading them on a difficult journey across the mountains of China.

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Main idea

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In this article, "the chidren's spirits began to drop" means the

children were getting discouraged.

children's shoes were falling apart.

children cried constantly.

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How is the author's purpose for writing the article expressed in paragraph 14?

The paragraph reveals the children's greed.

The paragraph shows that Gladys put the children's needs before her own.

The paragraph describes the difficulties of finding food on the journey.

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Based on Gladys Aylward's actions as told in this article, you can predict that she

married and had many children of her own.

adopted the orphaned children that she rescued.

continued to do good works in other parts of the world.

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Making Inferences:
Gladys Aylward's first concern was for her own safety.

faulty inference

correct inference