FSAssessments practice test, Grade 5

1. FSAssessments practice test, Grade 5

By Brittany Rhoads

Sources 1 and 2

​Read both sources, answser the questions, and text mark your answers in the text.

​Passage 1: from Bridge to Terabitthia

Passage 2: from The secret Garden​

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Multiple Choice

Choose a sentence from Passage 1 that helps explain why Jess changed his mind about the forest.

• “‘I used to think this place was haunted,’ Jess had confessed to Leslie the first afternoon he had revved up his courage to bring her there.

• ‘Oh, but it is,’ she said.‘But you don’t have to be scared.

• It’s not haunted with evil things.’

• ‘How do you know? ’‘I can just feel it. Listen. At first he heard only the stillness.

• It was the stillness that had always frightened him before, but this time it was like the moment after Miss Edmunds finished a song, just after the chords hummed down to silence.”

​The last answer is correct. This sentence describes a situation that had previously been frightening but now is not, suggesting why Jess changed his mind.

Multiple Choice

This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B. Part A

What is the theme of Passage 1?

• Nature can have a powerful effect on people

• Children need friends who can keep secrets

• People can find interesting things in forests

• Children often benefit from being quiet.

​Option A: This answer is correct. The beginning of the passage describes how Jess felt energized because he was out in nature. The passage ends by describing how Jess and Leslie are profoundly influenced by the stillness of the pine forest and vow to keep the area sacred.

Multiple Choice

Part B

How do Jess and Leslie’s actions support the theme from Part A, Nature can have a powerful effect on people?

• They promise not to tell anyone about Terabithia.

• They are excited about seeing the forest every day

• They decide not to talk when in the forest.

• They are determined to keep Terabithia sacred.

​Option D: This answer is correct. The key theme of the passage is the influence of nature. A key example of the way this influence is felt is in the commitment Jess and Leslie make at the end of the passage to keep the forest sacred.

Multiple Choice

Decide whether each option describes Jess or Leslie in Passage 1.

• Jess

• Leslie

​Option B: This answer is correct. Leslie demonstrates her leadership by convincing Jess to be unafraid of the forest.

Multiple Choice

is not sure if the forest is haunted

• Jess

• Leslie

​Jess seems unsure about the forest and admits in paragraph 3 that he thought the forest was haunted.

Multiple Choice

changes after arriving in Terabithia

• Jess

• Leslie

​In paragraph 3, Jess admits that he was afraid of the forest but that he got the courage to bring Leslie there.

Multiple Choice

suggests listening to better understand the forest

• Jess

• Leslie

​In paragraph 6, Leslie encourages Jess to listen to reinforce the idea that the forest is “not haunted with evil things.”

Multiple Choice

This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B. Part A In Passage 2, what does the author mean by saying the roses “were like little trees”? (paragraph 11)

• The rosebushes have thick trunks.

• The rosebushes are tall enough to climb.

• The rosebushes have large, long branches.

• The rosebushes are more leaves than flowers.

​Option C: This answer is correct. The author compares the rosebushes to trees to emphasize that the rosebushes—like trees—have large, long branches.

Multiple Choice

Part B Why is this description of the roses important?

• It shows that the garden lacks color

• It shows that the rosebushes may be hard to cut down.

• It shows that the garden may be dangerous to play in.

• It shows that the rosebushes have been ignored for a long time

​Option D: This answer is correct. By emphasizing that the rosebushes have long, large branches like a tree, the author reveals that the rosebushes and garden have been ignored for a long time.

Multiple Choice

What role does paragraph 11 have in the passage?

• It shows how difficult it is to keep gardens healthy.

• It helps explain the reasons why Mary is fond of flowers

• It provides a setting where Mary can meet new characters.

• It helps create the idea that the garden has been abandoned.

​Option D: This answer is correct. The description of the overgrown plants and shut walls suggests that the garden has been abandoned.

Multiple Choice

Why does the narrator show Mary talking to herself?

• to show how interested Mary is about the garden

• to show how nervous Mary feels inside the garden

• to show how little Mary understands about the garden

• to show how much the garden reminds Mary of other places

​Option A: This answer is correct. Mary talks out loud about the garden because it excites and interests her. She cannot believe how still and quiet it is.

Multiple Choice

Decide whether each option describes the setting of Passage 1, Passage 2, or both passages.

The place is dark.

• Passage 1

• Passage 2

• Both Passages

​Terabithia’s setting is described as dark in paragraph 2 of Passage 1.

Multiple Choice

select whether each option describes the setting of Passage 1, Passage 2, or both passages.

The mood is calm.

• Passage 1

• Passage 2

• Both Passages

​Terabithia’s setting is described as “calm” in paragraph 7 of Passage 1, and Mary remarks on the “stillness” of the secret garden in paragraphs 12–14 of Passage 2.

Multiple Choice

The plants may be dying.

• Passage 1

• Passage 2

• Both Passages

​Mary wonders if the garden is “quite dead” in paragraph 15 of Passage 2.

Multiple Choice

Effort is made to be quiet.

• Passage 1

• Passage 2

• Both Passages

​In paragraph 6, Leslie encourages Jess to listen to reinforce the idea that the forest is “not haunted with evil things.” Leslie and Jess are quiet in Passage 1 so that they can appreciate the stillness of the forest, and Mary tries to step “softly as if she were afraid of awakening someone” in paragraph 15 of Passage 2.

Multiple Choice

No one has been there for years.

• Passage 1

• Passage 2

• Both Passages

​. Mary acknowledges that she is “the first person who has spoken in here for ten years” in paragraph 14 in Passage 2.