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Question 1
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How can the reader tell that attending the picnic is important to Christopher?
4.6.F
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Question 2
2.
Christopher’s friends most likely think that —
4.8.B
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Question 3
3.
Paragraph 22 is important to the story because it shows that Christopher —
4.8.C
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Question 4
4.
What is the best summary of paragraphs 7 through 10?
4.7.D
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Question 5
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What does paragraph 11 reveal about Christopher’s character?
4.8.B
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Question 6
6.
What does the word misfortunes mean in paragraph 11?
4.3.B
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Question 7
7.
Which sentence from the selection is an opinion?
4.6.F
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Question 8
8.
Which phrase in paragraph 11 helps the reader understand the meaning of annual?
4.3.B
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Question 9
9.
Read this sentence from paragraph 2.
Based on information in this sentence, the reader can conclude that early marbles were —
4.6.F
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Question 10
10.
Paragraphs 5 and 6 are mainly about how —
4.7.D
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Question 11
11.
Which sentence in the selection is best supported by the photographs between paragraphs 9 and 10?
4.6.F
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Question 12
12.
In which part of the selection would the reader find information about the history of marbles?
4.9.D.ii
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Question 13
13.
What effect does Max working in Grandpa’s yard have on the plot of the story?
4.8.C
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Question 14
14.
When Max shows his father the time capsule he dug up, Max’s father most likely feels —
4.8.B
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Question 15
15.
Which point of view does the author use in this story?
4.10.E
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Question 16
16.
In paragraph 1, the author uses the phrases “wiped the sweat from his brow” and “felt like he had been digging for hours” to suggest that Max —
4.10.D
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Question 17
17.
In paragraph 3, the suffix –er in the word sender helps the reader understand that the word refers to —
4.3.C
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Question 18
18.
What happened as a result of someone finding a bottle that had been released by students in Hawaii in 2007?
4.9.D.iii
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Question 19
19.
The author wrote this selection most likely to —
4.6.F
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Question 20
20.
Paragraphs 2 and 3 are mainly about —
4.7.D
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Question 21
21.
What conclusion can the reader make based on both the story and the selection?
4.6.E
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Question 22
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Based on the story and the selection, what is one way a time capsule differs from a message in a bottle?
4.6.E
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Question 23
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Read these sentences from paragraph 12 of “Max’s Find.”
Which sentences from “Messages in Bottles” express a similar idea?
4.6.E
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Question 24
24.
How is the time capsule in “Max’s Find” similar to the bottles in “Messages in Bottles”?
4.6.E
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Question 25
25.
The imagery in the third stanza (lines 9–12) most appeals to the reader’s sense of —
4.6.F
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Question 26
26.
Which statement best describes how the poet uses rhyme in each stanza of the poem?
4.10.B
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Question 27
27.
Why is the first stanza (lines 1–4) important to the poem?
4.6.F
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Question 28
28.
Which statement correctly describes a way that stanzas 2 through 7 (lines 5–28) are similar?
4.6.F
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Question 29
29.
Which of these statements describes an element of the poem?
4.10.B
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Question 30
30.
The end of the poem expresses the idea that the speaker —
4.6.F
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Question 31
31.
Read the dictionary entry for the word secure.
Which definition most closely fits the way the word secured is used in paragraph 4?
4.3.A
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Question 32
32.
Which fact in the selection is best supported by the last photograph?
4.6.F
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Question 33
33.
Based on the selection, the reader can conclude that acorns —
4.6.F
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Question 34
34.
What is the best summary of the selection?
4.7.D
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Question 35
35.
Which statement best describes how baby acorn weevils know that it is time to leave their acorn homes?
4.9.D.iii
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Question 36
36.
The photograph of the acorn woodpecker and the information in paragraph 6 best support the idea that the woodpecker —