Read the passage and answer questions 1-7.
1. Which sentence from the passage best supports the idea that sleep is important to learning?
2. A reader can tell that this passage is nonfiction because it
3. Which sentence from “Why Do We Dream?” contains a simile?
4. Which statement in the article is an opinion?
5. In paragraph 2, the word theories means
6. The author most likely wrote this article to
7. In paragraph 5, what caused the students to dream about a problem they had?
Read the passage and answer questions 8-13.
8. What is a similarity between the narrator and Grandma as a girl?
9. The reader can tell the story is written in first person because
10. Computers are helpful to have in the library. What evidence from the text supports this statement?
11. Why might the title refer to New York Public Library as “A New Kind of Library”?
12. What theme is found in both “How Grandma Did Her Homework” and “A New Kind of Library”?
13. What does Grandma mean when she says “such progress” in paragraph 2?
Read the passage and answer questions 14-18.
Read the dictionary definition for the word bear.
Bear/Bair/Verb
To hold up, support a load
Give birth to
To be able to stand
To produce by natural growth
Which definition best describes the word bear in line 8?
15. In which line of the poem does the narrator start to change her feelings of her sister?
16. What is the theme of this poem?
17. The last stanza, lines 13 through 17, explains which of the following to the reader?
18. What is the best way to summarize this poem?
Read the passage and answer questions 19-23.
19. The author most likely wrote this passage
20. Which sentence from the passage supports the statement, “These settlers did not have the same respect for the buffalo as the Native Americans”?
21. Which sentence best summarizes paragraph 4 of “The American Buffalo”?
22. Which statement from the passage is an opinion?
23. What is one detail from paragraph 2 that supports the idea, “Many buffalo traveled to North America”?
Read the passage and answer questions 24-28.
24. Where does the second poem take place?
25. Based on the poem, why does the child most likely get wrapped in a comforter and cap? (Winter-Time)
26. Read the following sentence: “At morning in the dark I rise; and shivering in my nakedness, by the cold candle, bathe and dress.” (Winter-Time)
What does the word shivering mean as used in the poem?
27. How are the poems “City Autumn” and “Winter-Time” similar?
28. Which type of figurative language is used in the first line of each poem?
Read the passage and answer questions 29-32.
29. The reader can tell that Jordan’s friends care about her because
30. This story is mostly about
31. The theme of this story is
32. Where does this story take place?
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Read the passage and answer questions 34-40.
34. Which detail from the text supports that the megalodon could not still exist (is extinct)?
35. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
36. Why do people believe Loch Ness exists?
37. In paragraph 4 of Legend of Loch Ness, what does the word skeptic mean?
38. How does the photograph in Legend of Loch Ness help support the passage?
39. What can the reader conclude about the Megalodon after reading both texts?
40. How are the ideas in both texts organized?
Read the passage and answer questions 41-50.
41. What caused the protesters to come to Town hall in paragraph 9?
"People from far away came to see the street performers. All seemed well and good, but with the juggler’s popularity came copycats.”
42. This shows that the town was becoming
43. What main problem does Mayor Arnold face?
44. While many people are happy to live in a famous town, not everyone is happy about the jugglers. What evidence from the passage supports this conclusion?
Read the following sentences:
“The mayor chewed her pen. She tapped her food furiously. She sighed so strongly that important documents blew off her desk, and this made her sigh again.”
45. Based on this description, how is Mayor Arnold most likely feeling?
46. How will the influence of Donald Seastrunk effect Mayor Arnold’s decision about the jugglers?
47. What is this story mostly about?
Read the following sentence:
“Winking and smiling, the jugglers performed astonishing feats: dozens of balls in the air at once; nifty, behind the back and through the legs tricks; even juggling blindfolded.”
48. What does the word “astonishing” mean as used in this sentence?
49. Which statement from the text contains a simile?
50. The author most likely wrote about this text to