Unit Test Review

Unit Test Review

Multiple Choice

Read the excerpt from Hometown Summer.

DIANE: Why don't you three go pick out your bedrooms?

TASHA: (Tasha runs offstage.) I get the green one!

1. The stage directions in this excerpt tell the reader that Tasha is

• excitable

• headstrong

• rude

• anxious

Multiple Choice

What does this excerpt tell the reader about Diane's perspective?

• She is interested in meeting her neighbors and spending time with family.

• She is confident that she will learn how to live and work on a farm.

• She is angry at her husband and wants the family to move as soon as possible.

• She is worried about how she and her family will adjust to their new home.

Multiple Choice

In "Home Place Retold," why was it a common practice for siblings from one family to marry siblings from a neighboring family?

• People wanted to keep farming practices a secret.

• The communities were large and extensive.

• People wanted to combine their land into huge farms.

• The communities had very small populations.

Multiple Choice

Which best describes the structure of this paragraph?

• compare and contrast

• chronological order

• cause and effect

• sequence of events

Multiple Choice

Which is one way that the inclusion of Sophie Ruskay’s personal account contributes to the purpose of At School?

• It highlights why the children hated repeating lessons.

• It emphasizes the difficult conditions in many schools.

• It highlights how immigrant children learned about America.

• It emphasizes the difficulties faced by immigrant children.

Multiple Choice

Based on the passage, which best describes the purpose of this chart?

• to emphasize how the development of unions affected the population

• to show how the population of Barre decreased when stone workers arrived

• to emphasize how the growth of the railroad affected the population

• to show how the population of Barre decreased when it became more artistic

Multiple Choice

Which best paraphrases this paragraph?

• Immigrant families worked extremely hard when they came to America and quickly gained status.

• Using potassium as fertilizer, a technique of immigrant farmers, helped many people

• New farming techniques had a major impact on farming in the Midwest, producing first-rate crops.

• Immigrant families brought new farming techniques to America, which proved very effective.

Multiple Choice

Which detail from "At School" supports the central idea that foreign-born children were not given enough meaningful support at school in the early 1900s?

• They were simply placed in regular classes with much younger American-born children.

• Instruction emphasized the three Rs, American history and geography, penmanship, and spelling.

• Students stood at their desks as they performed physical fitness exercises every morning.

• In some city schools, nearly all the students came from immigrant families.

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence.

Anish is researching the history of the Olympics and finds a government report that has information he can cite in his essay.

This type of source is considered

• an academic source.

• an internal source.

• a popular publication source.

• a news publication source.

Multiple Choice

Based on the concrete details in this excerpt, which word best describes how the immigrants felt?

• anxious

• awkward

• embarrassed

• distressed

Multiple Choice

Mr. Reed's second-period class.

Which group of words would correct the sentence fragment?

• at last

• is studying Shakespeare

• the students in

• at Lincoln Middle School

Multiple Choice

Read the topic from Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman.

Immigrant families worried about being torn apart from one another.

Which quotation best develops this topic?

• “we lived there for three days - Mother and we five children, the youngest of whom was three years old”

• “my first impressions of the New World will always remain etched in my memory”

• “scowling and gesturing, they pushed and pulled the passengers, herding us into separate groups”

• “clustered on the foredeck for fear of separation and looked with wonder on this miraculous land of our dreams”