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Direction:
This comprehension test aims to assess your foundational and higher order thinking skills in reading.
DIRECTIONS: Read each passage carefully and answer these questions that follow. Click the letter of your BEST answer.  DO THIS ON YOUR OWN.

A.   Most of us read about the legend of Hiawatha in Longfellow’s poem, but few know that the real Hiawatha, was one of the statesmen who founded the Iroquois league, or Five Nations.
In the days of Hiawatha, the Iroquois tribes had engaged in fraternal warfare until reduced to want and misery. Hiawatha and another chief called a council that established the League of the Iroquois and abolished war among them forever. The league was democratic. Its chieftains were elected. No war could be waged without the consent of all the nations that were members. Any outside nation could have peace with the Iroquois by becoming a member. Later, the league became the Six Nations.
The Iroquois, now transformed from weak tribes into a powerful nation, conquered all Indian peoples who dared to attack them. Their great domain separated the French colonies at Quebec from those on Mississippi. By keeping apart these colonies, they enabled the British to conquer Canada.
The league founded by Hiawatha remains the heritage of his people.

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1. Who was Hiawatha?

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2. Before the League of the Iroquois, the tribes

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3. They formed the league in order to

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4.Who chose the chieftains?

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5. An outside tribe could have peace by

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6. After the tribes became the Six Nations, they were

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7. All their lands stretched from

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8. Hiawatha is

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G score     6.7   7.3   8.0   8.9    0.8   10.4   11.3  12.2

B. The skyscraper, which is one of the greatest modern American creations, came into being as a result of necessity. The demand for room in an already congested district made it necessary, and modern engineering methods made it possible.
The steel-cage system of construction makes the superstructure possible. The cage is made of steel beams fastened together with bolts. It may be compared to a bridge set on end. The steel skeleton forms the whole support for the upper floors, and the walls are merely covering for protection.
The construction of the substructure is just as marvelous. It must be so built that it will not only support the superstructure and its contents, but also bear the pressure exerted upon it by the force of the wind against the walls. In building the foundations, steel caissons – large boxlike structures – are sunk down to bedrock. When they reach bedrock, the rock is leveled and the caissons are filled with concrete; thus solid piers are made from bedrock to the surface of the ground.

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1.The skyscraper was constructed because of

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2.The steel beams are fastened together with

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3. The steel cage may be compared to

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4. The walls of the skyscrapers are used primarily

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5. The support of the upper floors of the superstructure is directly dependent on

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6. The cage is made of

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7. What must the substructure do?

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8. What does the wind do?

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G score     5.9  6.6   7.4    8.1  9.2   10.0   10.8    11.8

C. Many times, in the past, Arctic ice has crushed down over parts of Europe, Asia, and North America. Why has this happened? And why are layers of coal found in Antarctica?
Great mountain ranges, such as the Rockies and the Andes, have been raised. What caused these mountains to rise and new seas to invade portions of the land?
Once in the age’s past, millions of mastodons and other types of animals met sudden death. During summer months many centuries ago, vast numbers of mastodons were frozen solid. Summer plants have been found in their teeth and stomachs. The meat of mastodons dug from the frozen earth is still edible. What great catastrophe deep-froze these animals?
Geologists have developed a theory that may explain all these mysteries. Place a weight on one side of a sphere, spin it at high speed and the sphere will fly into many pieces. The great Greenland icecap and the larger icecap on Antarctica are not centered on the Poles. They cooperate to put great strain on the surface of the earth. About every 20,000 years this strain causes the thirty-mile-deep surface of the earth to slip on the molten rocks below. From time to time, points on the earth have moved as much as 2,000 miles from their previous positions. Great earthquakes, like one in Assam that raised Mount Everest more than a hundred feet, indicate that the earth’s surface may be about to move again.

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3. If you place a weight on a sphere and spin it at high speed, what will happen?

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4. Two icecaps mentioned are

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5. How deep is the earth’s surface?

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6. What happens when there is a great strain on the surface of the earth?

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7.The surface of the earth moves

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8. The earthquake at Assam indicates that the earth’s surface may move

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G score        4.6  5.5 6.6   7.6   8.9    10.2    11.5 12.5