L24: "Rachel's Journal"

L24: "Rachel's Journal"

The first batch of questions deal with this week's vocabulary while also tests your ability to determine unknown words through context clues.

Multiple Choice

Which word below fits the following definition the best?

how someone or something has performed or progressed

• tormented

• surged

• balked

• fared

Multiple Choice

Which word below fits the following definition the best?

to stop or refuse to continue

• disadvantage

• quaking

• balked

• mishap

Multiple Choice

Which word below fits the following definition the best?

an unfortunate accident

• mishap

• lectured

• beacon

• rustling

Multiple Choice

Which of the following strategies is the MOST EFFECTIVE when you encounter a word you do not know while reading?

• ask an adult

• look for clues in the text

• search the internet

• continue reading

Comprehension: Cause & Effect

The following questions all deal with comprehension of this week's story, "Rachel's Journal".

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from the passage.

"In fact, she was so startled by our abrupt appearance, she screamed as if we were ghosts or Indians."

What type of figurative language does the sentence above contain?

• adage

• idiom

• simile

• proverb

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from the passage is the best evidence that the passage is written in the first-person point of view?

• “Frank and Emma never complained,

  nor did little Caroline, but those twins

  whined worse than the mosquitoes.”

• “Mrs. Arabella Sunshine, Mrs. Elias, and

  Mother were first joyous, then mad.”

• “Mother tried to keep me back, but I

  wanted to see them as best I could.”

• “The others followed with no mishap.”

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from the passage.

"We barged through brambles and sloshed through creeks, but we always kept that light in view, like the beacon of a lighthouse. "

The SIMILE in this sentence suggests that the light of the campfires represents...

• nature and wildness

• comfort and home

• the waves of the ocean

• a tall building

Multiple Choice

After an Indian is friendly to the children, the children are...

• captured by the Indian’s tribe

• allowed to take cut-offs only at night.

• happy to introduce him to their parents.

• required to stay close to the wagon train.

Multiple Choice

According to Rachel, what effect does rain have on the trail?

• The trail turns into a river.

• The trail is impossible to follow.

• The trail becomes less dusty but

  very muddy.

• The trail becomes a good path for the

  herd of cattle.

Grammar

The final batch of questions has to do with comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs.

Some examples are:

smarter vs. smartest and more beautiful vs. most beautiful

Multiple Choice

Which word or words best complete the sentence below?

Of all his classmates, Mike worked the ________________ on his project.

• harder

• more hard

• hardest

• most hard

Multiple Choice

Which word or words best complete the sentence below?

Ice cream is __________ than broccoli.

• sweeter

• sweetest

• most sweet

• more sweet

Multiple Choice

Which word or words best complete the sentence below?

Sleeping in so late is a __________ idea when you have early classes.

• bad

• worse

• the worst

Multiple Choice

Which word or words best complete the sentence below?

I answered the question _________ than my table partner did.

• completely

• more completely

• most completely

• completelier