Chapters 8 -9

Determining Fact and Opinion

Some of the following sentences are statements of fact. Some are statements of opinion. In the blank before each sentence, write the letter F if that sentence is a statement of fact. Write O if that sentence is a statement of opinion.

Example:    

_____O______     The books in the Ember Library were of little use.

___________
  1. Once you got good at using your wrenches and brushes and tubes of glue, it wasn't hard.
___________
  1. To keep from getting lost , he dropped a trail of things as he walked - washers, bolts, pieces of wire, whatever he had in his tool belt - and then he picked them up on his way back.
___________
  1. There were interesting things in the Pipeworks if you paid attention.
___________
  1. His sudden motion made the creature fall off his arm to the ground, and Doon felt a crunch beneath his foot.
___________
  1. The generator was hopeless.
___________
  1. The walls of both rooms were lined with shelves, and on most of the shelves were hundreds of packets of pages.
___________
  1. Sometimes you could find useful things just by choosing randomly from the shelves.
___________
  1. To Lina, this sounded far less interesting than an undiscovered city, but she didn't say so.
___________
  1. There's some sort of odd mechanism here.
___________
  1. Lina shivered.
___________
  1. It was cold down in the tunnel, a cold that she felt all the way through, cold flesh, cold blood, cold bones.
___________
  1. Lina thought it would be grand to stand before all of Ember, announcing their discovery.

Answer Key

  1. O
  2. F
  3. O
  4. F
  5. O
  6. F
  7. O
  8. O
  9. O
  10. F
  11. O
  12. O