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Adam Mayblum, The Price We Pay

Adam Mayblum, The Price We Pay

Read The Price We Pay and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Why is Mayblum writing this essay?

as catharsis

under contract to The New Yorker

so that his children could have it as their legacy

so that we will never forget 9/11

2. Where was he on the morning of 9/11?

on his way to work at 2 World Trade Center

at his apartment

at the Pentagon

on the eighty-seventh floor of 1 World Trade Center

3. To whom was Mayblum’s first successful phone call?

to his wife

to his friend in San Francisco

to his sister-in-law

to his parents

4. What happened less than fifteen minutes after Mayblum and the others reached the street?

The third plane hit the Pentagon.

Mayblum saw a man jump from Tower 2.

Tower 1 collapsed.

Mayblum passed out and was taken to the hospital.

5. What news did Mayblum’s wife give him during their phone conversation?

Mayblum’s brother was still trapped in Tower 1.

Victor was alive.

Harry was dead.

His partner who had stayed behind was alive and well.