Fun in the White House

What are paragraphs 4-7 mostly about?

• A. Bringing a pony into the White House

• B. Explaining why Archie Roosevelt was sick in bed

• C. Shooting spitballs at President Jackson's portrait

• Describing the White House playground

The reader can conclude that Theodore Roosevelt was-

• F. a strict and distant father

• G. a loving, but firm, father

• a loving, but distant, father

• a neglectful and careless father

What does the word escorted mean in paragraph 3?

• A. pulled

• B. carried

• C. gave

• D. led

What best explains why these lines are from a play?

• F. They are written in sentences and paragraphs.

• G. They have stage directions and speaking parts.

• H. They are written in lines and stanzas.

• They tell a story about something that really happened.

In paragraph 13, the words the president's nose led him directly to the closet mean that the president-

• A. liked what he smelled in the closet.

• B. couldn't see the closet in the dark

• could smell something that was in the closet

• wanted to hide something in the closet

Theodore Roosevelt teaches Quentin a lesson about being careful with government property by-

• F. making Quentin clean the wet spitballs from Jackson's portrait

• G. not allowing Quentin to have a Christmas tree in the White House

• grounding Quentin for two weeks in the summer

• not letting Quentin bring his friends to the White House

What is the best summary of the selection?

• A

• B

• C

• D

At the end of the selection, President Roosevelt learns that it is -

• a lot of fun decorating a Christmas tree

• too late to teach Quentin to behave

• not important to preserve the forests

• sometimes a good idea to thin out a forest