Week 4 skills quiz

Week 4 skills quiz

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence from paragraph 1.

They had stopped at a little house in the woods, a one-room schoolhouse, and a wooden cabin with nice straight rows of plants in a tidy fenced-in yard.

Which word from the sentence is a synonym for tidy?

• Empty

• Messy

• Wild

• Neat

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence from paragraph 2.

Many books were put in big bags and piled on packhorses.

What does the word packhorses mean in the sentence?

• horses that go fast

• horses that pull wagons

• horses that move in groups

• horses that carry things

Multiple Choice

Which clue BEST lets you know the story genre

• The author tells why librarians needed to take books to people.

• The author tells how the little house in the woods looked.

• The author writes about a horse and woman

• The author says that librarians are brave

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence from paragraph 3.

Sometimes, the easiest way to keep moving was to get off the horse and walk.

What does the -est at the end of easiest tell about librarians getting off the horse and walking?

• it was the most easy way for librarians to move

• it was not easy for librarians to move

• it was the way librarians moved

• it was the only way librarians moved

Multiple Choice

What is the author’s purpose for writing the article?

• to persuade people to become a librarian

• to inform people about librarians from long ago

• to entertain people with a make believe story

• to teach people how to share stories

Multiple Choice

Read sentence 3.

When we are at Adam's , he is the teacher.

Which noun completes the sentence so it is MOST clear?

• street

• house

• block

• city

Multiple Choice

Read sentence 4.

Adam has a younger who pretends to be a part of our class.

Which noun completes the sentence so it is MOST clear?

• brother

• person

• family

• kid

Multiple Choice

Which word would be best to add to the blank line in sentence 6?

When Adam teaches art, he takes out paper, crayons, and _________ .

• apples

• cars

• markers

• plants