Pleasure Reading: Timed Reading Quiz Hell on Wheels (Part One)

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Instructions: Click the grey box following the questions, and choose the best answer to the question. When you are finished, check your number correct on the first try, found in the small box in the top right corner of the page.

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This passage is about:
select answer how car accidents usually occur how Michael Eck felt about truck drivers how Michael Eck made a truck driver angry the job Michael Eck had as a truck driver
Where did Michael Eck work?
select answer Pennsylvania Maryland Washington D.C. Virginia
Why did Eck pass the 18-wheeler?
select answer He was late for work. He was following another car. It was going too slow and was in the wrong lane. He wanted to make the truck driver angry.
"If he was more than a half-hour late for work, he'd be docked a day's pay." In this sentence "docked" means:
select answer to park a car to give extra money to pay extra for driving on a road to lose money as a punishment
What did Eck find out that the trucker was doing?
select answer The trucker was trying to hit him. The trucker could not slow down. The trucker was drunk. The trucker was trying to move into the next lane.

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