5th Grade- Reading MCA PREP

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36 questions
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Which phrase describes the main purpose of paragraphs 1 and 2?

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Which sentence states an important theme of the story?

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Which sentence gives information about Yang Ki’s brother that would be missing if the story had been told from her point of view?

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Read this sentence from paragraph 27.

"Her thin arms are like steel bands holding the pole in place."

The author uses the phrase “like steel bands” most likely to

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Read this sentence from paragraph 13.

"If Yang Ki loses sight of me, she may become discouraged and turn back."

Which phrase means the same as discouraged?

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Which statement logically predicts Yang Ki’s next actions following her brother’s rescue?

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In paragraph 10, the narrator mentions the Yeti to Yang Ki to

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Which sentence states a main idea of this article?

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Which part of the tree did Native Americans use to make cooking vessels

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Read this sentence from paragraph 7.

"Because of its life sustaining nature, the Native Americans revered the tree."

Which word means the same as revered?

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Based on paragraph 6, readers can conclude that the anchor lines for canoes

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Which statement is the author’s opinion?

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The author organized paragraphs 4–7 by

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Read this sentence from paragraph 4.

"For example, a seal-catching canoe was worth 15 blankets and was a symbol of great wealth."

The main purpose of this sentence is to

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Who is the main speaker in the poem?

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How does the poet organize the descriptions in lines 1–12?

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Why do the teachers most likely stop teaching class in lines 15–17?

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The poet uses repetition in lines 19–20 most likely to

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How do the children most likely feel in lines 29–33?

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Study the diagram in your packet.

According to lines 1-12, which sentence belongs in the empty space

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The effect of the children singing to the rain is that the rain

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Which sentence is the best summary of lines 13–23?

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Which conclusion can readers make about the conversation in lines 29–41?

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How does the speaker most likely feel in lines 42–43 of the poem?

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Which line from the poem gives the best hint about the main topic?

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Based on the story “Bread to Make,” the narrator at times turns her attention to the outdoors because she

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In what time frame do the events in “Bread to Make” happen?

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Read this sentence from paragraph 5.

"I sat at her feet, and light and fleeting as the touch of a butterfly, my hand touched her knee."

The narrator compares her hand to a butterfly to show that

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Read this sentence from paragraph 6.

"‘Grandmother, have you ever seen the way trees seem to dance in a storm?’ I began."

The narrator asks Grandmother this question most likely to

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In paragraph 20, the narrator’s mother gives her a “proud smile” because the narrator

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Read this sentence from paragraph 22.

"My Aunt Shirley could have been the twin of my mother"

This sentence means that Aunt Shirley and the narrator’s mother

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Based on her actions during dinner, the narrator’s aunt most likely

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Read this sentence from paragraph 24.

"A wave of sadness passes over me, that I can’t understand Chinese, that I’ve never earnestly tried to connect with my mother’s culture, that I haven’t seen this woman for so long; I know so little."

This sentence most clearly expresses that the narrator

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Which is the most likely reason that family members prepare a specific menu for the aunt?

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Why does the narrator consider the dumplings she has made “‘bad ones’”?

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The narrators in both stories are similar because they both