Dr. Heidegger's Expirement - Commonlit Assessment Questions 1-10
1. PART A: Which word best describes the narrator’s tone toward Dr. Heidegger’s visitors in the first paragraph?
A) Admiring
B) Sentimental
C) Compassionate
D) Disapproving

2. PART B: Record a quote from paragraph 1 that best supports your answer to Part A.

3. What is revealed about the narrator in paragraph 6? What is the author’s likely purpose for these details?

4. PART A: As it is used in paragraph 9, the word “peevish” most nearly means:
A) Bad-tempered
B) Amused
C) Hopeful
D) Nauseous

5. PART B: Which word provides the best clue to the answer to Part A?
A) “‘Nonsense!’”
B) “toss of her head”
C) “wrinkled face”
D) “bloom again”

6. PART A: What does Heidegger mean by “peculiar advantages” in paragraph 19?

7. PART B: How does this warning contribute to the theme of the story?

8. What is the most likely reason the author refers to the bust of Hippocrates in paragraph 3?

9. PART A: Re-read paragraph 41. What does it suggest about the Water of Youth?
A) It does more harm to those who take it than good.
B) The subjects of the experiment may be imagining its effects.
C) Dr. Heidegger already understands its effects and is only administering it because he is cruel and sinister.
D) Its miraculous effects will likely bring Dr. Heidegger great wealth.

10.PART B: Which quote best supports your answer to the previous question?
A) “Blushing, panting, struggling, chiding, laughing, her warm breath fanning each of their faces by turns, she strove to disengage herself, yet still remained in their triple embrace”
B) “But they were young: their burning passions proved them so”
C) “Yet, by a strange deception, owing to the duskiness of the chamber, and the antique dresses which they still wore, the tall mirror is said to have reflected the figures of the three old, gray, withered grandsires, ridiculously contending for the skinny ugliness of a shriveled grandam.”
D) “Never was there a livelier picture of youthful rivalship, with bewitching beauty for the prize.”