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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. What is the third color to appear in a normal rainbow?

a. blue
b. indigo
c. green
d. yellow

2. Which of these happens first in the passage?
a. Red is always seen on top of all the colors.
b. The beauty of a rainbow has always amazed people.

c. This is because water can separate the colors of the Sun’s light.
d. The Sun’s light is made up of colors.

3. Why do rainbows happen?

a. artists make paintings
b. people see colors across the sky
c. light is refracted and reflected by clouds

d. light is refracted and reflected back out of the drops of rain

4. How is a rainbow and sunlight the same?
a. They are colorful.

b. They form a curve or a bow.
c. They are drops of rain.
d. They are very rare.

5. Predict what will happen when the Sun’s light reflects two times inside the

drops of rain.
a. A second rainbow will be seen outside a first rainbow.
b. Nothing will happen.
c. People will be able to see the colors out in the sky.

d. The sun will quickly dry up the drops of rain.

6. The word rare in the passage means
a. underdone

b. uncommon
c. blast
d. glance

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