Main Idea Quiz 1

What is a topic?

• What the text is mostly about
• A word or phrase that everything in the text refers back to
• Details that support the main/central idea
• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the meaning of main/central idea?

• What the text is mostly about
• A word or phrase that everything in the text refers back to
• Details that support the main/central idea in a text
• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What are supporting details?

• What the text is mostly about
• A word or phrase that everything in the text refers back to
• Details that support the main/central idea in a text
• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the main/central idea of the passage?
Screech! When a driver pushes on the brake pedal, it initiates a process that causes the vehicle to stop in motion. You literally trust automotive braking systems with your life every time you get into a vehicle or cross at a busy intersection, but how does this process work? It begins when the pedal is pushed. At this moment brake fluid is released into the area where the braking mechanisms are. As the fluid collects, this creates a leverage, which causes a friction to be applied. If the braking system is functioning properly, this friction will create a force that will cause the wheels to stop and allow you to reach your destination safely.

• How a braking system functions on an automobile
• Trusting automotive braking systems
• Brake fluid being released in the area where the breaking mechanisms are
• There is no main/central idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

What is the main/central idea of the passage?
Were you born after 1985? If so, how long do you expect to live? Most people born after 1985 can expect to live more than 70 years. Of course, this is just a guess based on past records. By the way, females can expect to live about six years longer than males. That’s taken from past records too!

• Why people live to be 70
• How long you might expect to live
• The health of females
• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the main/central idea of the passage?

Farmers in Japan have a problem. There is not much land to farm, and there are many people to feed. Some farmers cut rows in the hillsides and grow crops there. This helps a little, but many kinds of food are shipped to Japan. They can choose anything they want to eat!

• There is little land to farm in Japan

• Growing food on the hillside in Japan is hard work

• The Japanese like getting food from other countries

• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the main/central idea of the passage?
Do you ever wonder how you taste things? You owe your sense of taste to your taste buds. We have nine thousand taste buds just on the tongue alone. There are also taste buds on the roof of your mouth. You even have taste buds on the back of your throat.

• Why we can only taste sweet things
• We taste through our nose
• Where taste buds are found
• We have nine thousand taste buds on the roof of our mouths

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the main/central idea of the passage?
Babies use both hands. But babies use one hand more than the other. This hand may become the preferred one. How can you tell? Lay a baby on its back. Notice which side the baby faces. If the baby looks to the right most of the time, it will probably be right-handed. What does it mean if the baby faces left more often? The baby will most likely be left-handed.

• How to tell right- from left-handed babies
• Babies use their hands for many things
• There are more left-handed babies
• If a baby looks to the right most of the time, it will probably be right-handed

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the main/central idea of the passage?
An Excerpt from Black Beauty
For some people Christmas and the New Year are very merry times; but for cabmen and cabmen’s horses it is no holiday, though it may be a harvest. There are so many parties, balls, and places of amusement open that the work is hard and often late. Sometimes drivers and horses have to wait for hours in the rain or frost, shivering with the cold, while the merry people within are dancing away to the music. I wonder if the beautiful ladies ever think of the weary cabman waiting on his box, and his patient beast standing, till his legs get stiff with cold.

• Cabmen
• Cabmen and their horses
• Christmas and New Year are difficult times for cabmen and their horses
• There are so many parties, balls, and places of amusement open during Christmas and the New Year

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Which detail DOES NOT support the main/central idea of the passage? (Christmas and New Year are difficult times for cabmen and their horses)
Black Beauty
For some people Christmas and the New Year are very merry times; but for cabmen and cabmen’s horses it is no holiday, though it may be a harvest. There are so many parties, balls, and places of amusement open that the work is hard and often late. Sometimes drivers and horses have to wait for hours in the rain or frost, shivering with the cold, while the merry people within are dancing away to the music. I wonder if the beautiful ladies ever think of the weary cabman waiting on his box, and his patient beast standing, till his legs get stiff with cold.

• There are parties and balls that go late into the night and the cab must wait a long time
• The weather is often cold and wet and the cabman and his horse must wait outside for hours
• Merry people dance away to the music
• Cabmen and their horses stiffen with coldness as they wait for passengers

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1