Excerpt from Miracle Mud

34) What do paragraphs 6 and 7 tell the reader?

• What Lena did as a baseball player

• how much Lena enjoyed plalying baseball

• why Lena decided not to play baseball

• who Lena played baseball with

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

35) Why are paragraphs 11 - 17 important to the passage?

• The paragraphs tell what kind of person Lena was.

• The paragraphs tell why Lena became famous.

• The paragraphs tell what problem Lena later solved.

• The paragraphs tell about Lena's job as a coach.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

36) Read these sentences from paragraph 19.

Lena's boot stuck in the mud. He sloooooowly pulled it out.

Why does the author add extra letters to the word slowly?

• to show that Lena was unable to get his foot out of the mud

• to show how hard it was for Lena to get his foot out of the mud

• to show that the mud was dark brown in color

• to show what gave Lena an idea about using the mud

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

37) Which two sentences, together, create a summary of the passage?

• Lena did not get into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

• Lena stopped playing baseball and became a coach.

• Lena lived near a river in New Jersey.

• Lena found some mud that makes new baseballs better.

• Lena' mud has been sold for many years.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

38 Part A

What happened after Lena found mud near the fishing hole?

• The mud made baseballs soggy.

• Lena became a famous baseball player.

• Lena told people where to find the mud.

• The mud became popular with baseball players.

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

38 Part B

Select two sentences that best support the correct answer to 5, Part A

• 27 Lena went back for more mud. He put it into tubs and started selling it Lots of teams bought Lena Blackburne's Baseball Rubbing Mud.

• 28 Lena became a "mud farmer." He never told anyone where he got the baseball mud. It was a secret.

• 29 But it was no secret that the mud worked. Baseball teams have been buying tubs of Lena's mud for close to seventy-five years. That's millions and millions of muddy baseballs.

• 30 Lena's mud is the onlly thing that's allowed on major-league baseballs. Playerss can't use water or spit or shoe polish. Just mud. Lena's mud.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

39) What is the author mainly comparing in pargraphs 32 and 33?

• the clean equipment and the dirty mud

• the new equipment and the old mud

• the expensive equipment and the cheap mud

• the dry equipment and the wet mud

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

40) Choose the two best reasons that Lena's mud was good for baseballs.

• The mud took the shine off new balls.

• The mud made the balls feel like new.

• The mud made the all hard for batters to see.

• The mud did not make the balls wet.

• The mud did not make the balls brown in color.

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CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

41 Part A

What do the events of the passage mostly show about the kind of person Lena was?

• He gave up trying too soon.

• He liked to try new things.

• He worked hard when he had to.

• He was brave in scary situations.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

41 Part B

Select two sentences that best support the correct answer to part A

• 18) the next time Lena was home, he went to an old fishing hole. He lived near a river in New Jersey.

• 19) Splootch! He stepped into some dark brown mud. It was soft and gooey. Lena's boot stuck in the mud. He slooooowly pulled it out.

• 20) Lena had an idea.

• 21) He reached down and scooped up some of the dark brown mud. It looked smooth and creamy like chocolate pudding. But it felt gritty.

• 22) Lena took the mud to the ballpark. He rubbed it on some baseballs and let it dry. Then he wiped them with a cloth. The powdered mud came off easily.

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CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1