1. What was Richard Ebright’s first interest as a child?
- a) Playing baseball
- b) Collecting butterflies
- c) Writing stories
- d) Performing experiments
Correct Answer: b) Collecting butterflies
2. Where did Ebright grow up?
- a) New York
- b) Washington
- c) Toronto
- d) Pennsylvania
Correct Answer: d) Pennsylvania
3. Why couldn’t Ebright play football or baseball?
- a) He didn’t like sports
- b) He was weak
- c) He was an only child
- d) His mother didn’t allow
Correct Answer: c) He was an only child
4. Which of the following did Ebright collect besides butterflies?
- a) Books and toys
- b) Rocks, fossils, and coins
- c) Flowers and shells
- d) Paintings and stamps
Correct Answer: b) Rocks, fossils, and coins
5. What was Ebright’s hobby in astronomy?
- a) Watching planets
- b) Star-gazing at night
- c) Studying telescopes
- d) Reading books on space
Correct Answer: b) Star-gazing at night
6. Who was Ebright’s constant companion before he started school?
- a) His father
- b) His mother
- c) His uncle
- d) His friends
Correct Answer: b) His mother
7. How did Ebright’s mother help him in learning?
- a) By forcing him to study
- b) By bringing work for him
- c) By arranging tutors
- d) By asking him to play outdoors
Correct Answer: b) By bringing work for him
8. When did Ebright lose his father?
- a) When he was in third grade
- b) When he was a baby
- c) When he was in high school
- d) After graduation
Correct Answer: a) When he was in third grade
9. What did Ebright’s mother buy for him to support his interests?
- a) A bicycle
- b) Mounting materials, microscopes, cameras
- c) A football and a bat
- d) A piano
Correct Answer: b) Mounting materials, microscopes, cameras
10. By the second grade, how many species of butterflies had Ebright collected?
Correct Answer: b) 25
11. Which book became a turning point in Ebright’s life?
- a) The Life of Insects
- b) The Travels of Monarch X
- c) Science of Butterflies
- d) The Story of Caterpillars
Correct Answer: b) The Travels of Monarch X
12. Who wrote The Travels of Monarch X?
- a) Richard A. Weiherer
- b) Dr. Frederick A. Urquhart
- c) Robert W. Peterson
- d) James R. Wong
Correct Answer: b) Dr. Frederick A. Urquhart
13. What did the book invite readers to do?
- a) Write stories
- b) Study butterfly migrations
- c) Draw butterflies
- d) Collect fossils
Correct Answer: b) Study butterfly migrations
14. Who contacted Dr. Urquhart for Ebright?
- a) His uncle
- b) His school teacher
- c) His mother
- d) Ebright himself
Correct Answer: c) His mother
15. What was Ebright asked to do by Dr. Urquhart?
- a) Tag butterflies
- b) Count caterpillars
- c) Photograph butterflies
- d) Collect bird feathers
Correct Answer: a) Tag butterflies
16. How did Ebright raise butterflies at home?
- a) By buying them
- b) By catching a female monarch and raising her eggs
- c) By collecting dead ones
- d) By trading with friends
Correct Answer: b) By catching a female monarch and raising her eggs
17. Where did Ebright raise butterflies?
- a) In his garden
- b) In his school lab
- c) On his terrace
- d) In his basement
Correct Answer: d) In his basement
18. What did Ebright finally do with the butterflies he raised?
- a) Sold them
- b) Kept them in jars
- c) Tagged and released them
- d) Gave them to the museum
Correct Answer: c) Tagged and released them
19. How long does butterfly collecting season last in Reading, Pennsylvania?
- a) Six weeks
- b) Three months
- c) Two weeks
- d) Four months
Correct Answer: a) Six weeks
20. How many tagged butterflies of Ebright’s were recaptured?
- a) Ten
- b) Two
- c) Twenty
- d) None
Correct Answer: b) Two
21. How far were the recaptured butterflies from his home?
- a) 100 miles
- b) 50 miles
- c) 200 miles
- d) 75 miles
Correct Answer: d) 75 miles
22. What did Ebright realize about tagging butterflies?
- a) It was exciting
- b) It was very easy
- c) It was tedious with little feedback
- d) It was always successful
Correct Answer: c) It was tedious with little feedback
23. What qualities did Ebright show as a child?
- a) Laziness and carelessness
- b) Anger and impatience
- c) Shyness and silence
- d) Curiosity and determination
Correct Answer: d) Curiosity and determination
24. What was the scientific importance of tagging butterflies?
- a) To know how many butterflies exist
- b) To decorate collections
- c) To catch more butterflies
- d) To study butterfly migration
Correct Answer: d) To study butterfly migration
25. What was compared to hitting a home run in sports?
- a) Publishing a paper in a scientific journal at age fifteen
- b) Winning the international fair.
- c) Collecting butterflies
- d) Tagging butterflies
Correct Answer: a) Publishing a paper in a scientific journal at age fifteen
26. What did Ebright’s mother do after he started school?
- a) Stopped helping him
- b) Brought friends home for him
- c) Sent him to boarding school
- d) Made him play only sports
Correct Answer: b) Brought friends home for him
27. What role did Ebright’s dining room table play in his childhood?
- a) A place for meals
- b) A place to play board games
- c) A place for study and experiments
- d) A place for guests only
Correct Answer: c) A place for study and experiments
28. What phrase best describes Ebright’s mother?
- a) Strict and harsh
- b) Lazy and quiet
- c) Careless and indifferent
- d) Encouraging and supportive
Correct Answer: d) Encouraging and supportive
29. What was the central message of The Travels of Monarch X for Ebright?
- a) Butterflies are beautiful
- b) Migration can be studied scientifically
- c) Caterpillars are dangerous
- d) Birds eat butterflies
Correct Answer: b) Migration can be studied scientifically
30. Which quality made Ebright a future scientist?
- a) His desire to win prizes
- b) His dislike of sports
- c) His loneliness as a child
- d) His strong curiosity to learn
Correct Answer: d) His strong curiosity to learn
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