5th Grade ELA Mid-Year Review Part 3

"The School"
Adapted from Heart: An Italian Schoolboy's Journal (letter)

Multiple Choice

35.) Which of the following best describes the genre of this selection?

• fiction

• drama

• nonfiction

• poetry

Multiple Choice

36.) Select the best summary of this selection?

• An Italian boy's father writes a letter in the boy's journal telling him how miserable he would be if he didn't go to school.

• An Italian boy struggles with school and does not enjoy going, so his father has written him a letter in his journal. The father not only suggests how the boy would regret not going, but also informs him that all people study. he suggests that the boy should think about all the boys setting out for school at the same time as he. Even though the boys are all different, the world depends on the education they are all getting.

• An Italian boy's father scolds the boy for not wanting to go to school. He wants the boy to think of all the ways other boys get to school, such as walking, riding horseback, sledding over snow, walking through valleys, over hills, across forests, torrents, or over solitary paths of mountains. millions and millions of boys is all going to learn the same things as him.

• An Italian boy is a coward and his father is ashamed of him. So, he punishes the boy and will not let him go to school anymore.

Multiple Choice

37.) Read the following.

Be not a cowardly solider.

The suffix ly in the word cowardly means

• having the quality of.

• should be.

• full of.

• more than.

Multiple Choice

38.) To find the origin of the word barbarism as used in the selection, a student would use

• a glossary.

• an index.

• a thesaurus.

• a dictionary.

Multiple Choice

39.) Read the following.

Millions and millions of boys is all going to learn the same things, in a hundred varied forms.

What change, if any, should be made to the above sentence?

• change going to go

• change is to are

• change learn to learning

• no change

Multiple Choice

40.) Select the main idea of the selection.

• Walking to school is miserable.

• Soldiers study after their exhausting drills.

• Getting an education is important for everyone.

• Only girls go to school on Saturday.

"James Herman Banning: Pioneer in Flight"

Multiple Choice

41.) Which of the following details support the idea that Banning dealt with emergencies?

• In 1926, Banning received pilot's license number 1324.

• In 1933, he was tragically killed in an airplane crash during an exhibition in California.

• He became the first African American pilot to be recognized and licensed by the U.S. Government.

• A problem in New Mexico led to Allen pawning a "flying suit and his watch for $10."

Multiple Choice

42.) Read the following.

Eventually, he found someone willing to train him, but he needed a plane to complete the required solo hours in the air.

The purpose of the conjunction in the above sentence is to

• show comparative thoughts.

• show a contrasting thought.

• show items in a list.

• show a main clause will follow.

Multiple Choice

43.) All the following are viable research questions to ask when researching James Herman Banning except:

• Who was the president in 1933?

• How did James Herman Banning die?

• Why did Mayor Jimmy Walker give Banning and Allen keys to New York City?

• How long did the transcontinental flight take Banning and Allen?

Multiple Choice

44. 44.) Which of the following is the best summary of paragraph 7?

• Banning died while performing in a San Diego airshow one year after his long flight. He was 34 years old.

• Banning died in 1933 in San Diego. He was flying with a Navy pilot, when the plane crashed. He wasn't allowed to fly the plane that day because he was an African American.

• Banning's success was short-lived as he was killed in a plane crash just a year after his successful flight. While a passenger in a plane, the plane crashed during the performance. he is remembered as never giving up in spite of the difficulties he faced in his life.

• Banning, an African American, dealt with many problems his whole life. He died in an airshow in 1933, yet his legacy was powerful.

Multiple Choice

45.) Which of the following would be the most reliable internet resource to use in researching James Herman Banning?

• https://www.womenhistory.org

• https://pioneersofflight.si.edu

• https://african-americans.com

• https://www.youtube

Multiple Choice

46.) All the following are needed for a works cited entry except:

• author's name

• name of book

• date published

• size of book

Multiple Choice

47.) Read the following.

One of their final stops was in Pittsburg.

How many prepositional phrases are in the above sentence?

• one

• two

• three

• four

Multiple Choice

48.) Which of the following best states the main idea of this selection?

• James Herman Banning became a successful pilot in spite of facing many obstacles.

• James Herman Banning was given a key to New York City by Mayor Jimmy Walker.

• James Herman Banning threw handbills in support of Franklin D. Roosevelt from his plane.

• James Herman Banning became an instructor at the Bessie Coleman Aero Club Aviation School.

Multiple Choice

49.) This selection is an example of which of the following genres?

• drama

• nonfiction

• fiction

• poetry

Multiple Choice

50.) Based on the Latin root trans meaning across, the word transcontinental as used in this selection means

• across the globe.

• across the ocean.

• across the continent.

• across the state.