DARK MATTER - BJ NOVAK - PLUS QUESTIONS

Comprehension questions:
  1. Page 1. What is hard to understand about dark matter? Use your own words.
  2. Find a synonym for self-satisfied on page 1.
  3. Page 2. What is meant by the “mural at the entrance. The one for tots”?
  4. How does the narrator convince the scientist to tell him what dark matter is? Use your own words.
  5. Page 3. How does the narrator know the scientist’s office is a “serious place”?
  6. What does “he’s on a dead end” mean? Look at the context.
  7. Which words show that the scientist has difficulty explaining what dark matter is?
  8. Page 3-4. What happens with the narrator’s phone. Explain in your own words.
  9. Page 4. Why is the narrator worried about his friends?
  10. Page 5. How does the scientist react to sharing his dark matter theory?
  11. Name the three gestures that the narrator makes with the scientist.
  12. Page 6. Why did they get their pizzas for free?
EXTENSION: Write a paragraph from the narrator’s viewpoint about another day he/she went out with his/her friends.