Point of View/Synonyms and Antonyms Pretest

Who is the narrator of the passage?

• Babe

• A logger

• Paul Bunyan

• Big Joe, the cook

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What text evidence shows that the narrator is exaggerating?

• Paul led crews of loggers.

• Big Joe needed a griddle to cook pancakes.

• A visitor at camp thought the sausages were logs.

• Crosshaul took the wrong logs down the Mississippi.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

If the passage were told with Paul Bunyan as the narrator, the reader would know

• how Old Joe got to be a cook.

• what Paul Bunyan was thinking.

• why the logger liked Paul Bunyan.

• what happened to Chris Crosshaul after he took the wrong logs down the river.

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What text evidence from the passage supports the narratorś view of Paul as a giant of a man?

• Babe could pull any lad, no matter how big.

• Feeding Bunyanś crews of ravenous loggers was a big job.

• It pushed the logs over the hills that surrounded the lake, all the way to the river.

• In another cold year, the Great Lakes that Paul built froze all the way to the bottom.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which pair of words from the passage have almost the same meaning?

• Famous and legendary

• Good and legendary

• Logs and sausages

• Griddle and batter

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Big Ole, the blacksmith, made a griddle so immense a logger couldn´t see across the steam made by a pancake that was cooking on it.

Which word means the OPPOSITE of immense?

• hot

• tiny

• rough

• round

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CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.5C

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.L.6.4A

Which word has almost the same meaning as the word predicament that is used in the 3rd paragraph?

• advantage

• difficulty

• prediction

• solution

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

He thought the whole winterś work was lost until Paul, who was always clever, came up with an ingenious idea.

Which word means the OPPOSITE of ingenious?

• difficult

• impossible

• ridiculous

• unimaginative

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CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.5C

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.L.6.4A