Unit Test

Read the sentence.

The work was monotonous and boring, requiring us to complete the same task over and over.

Which type of context clue is used to indicate the meaning of monotonous?

• example

• comparison

• contrast

• definition

Which is the correct way to write the sentence?

• I walked over there to here what they were saying.

• I walked over their to hear what they were saying.

• I walked over they're to here what they were saying.

• I walked over there to hear what they were saying.

Which word contains a Latin root that means "one hundred"?

• percentage

• millipede

• geometry

• pentagon

Which word means "the act of moving something from one place to another"?

• transportive

• transporter

• transportable

• transportation

In "The Great Storyteller," which details support the central idea that Roald Dahl's stories were based on personal experience?

Select all that apply.

• Dahl did most of his writing in a hut in his garden.

• Dahl began writing fiction after several magazines praised his work.

• Dahl loved chocolate as a child and imagined himself working in a candy factory.

• Dahl based a character in The Witches on his mother.

How does Jack London reveal himself to be smarter than the shacks who are after him in Holding Her Down, Part 2, of The Road?

• London shows how he pulls himself up between the curved roofs of two cars and rides both at the same time after he notices the shacks on the first blind.

• London tells how he holds back from throwing coal on the fireman who has sprayed him with water.

• London explains that the shacks are lazy because they only shield the light from their lanterns instead of putting them out.

• London describes the three directions on the train from which the shacks could attack him.

How does the author of "A Highway of Water" explain how ships are raised and lowered in a lock?

• She explains that the Panama Canal has three locks through which ships must pass.

• She tells readers that when the gates open, the ship can move into the next lock.

• She compares the lock to a giant box made out of concrete.

• She states that water is pumped into or out of the lock.

Which details from "The Olympic Tradition" show that a lot of information is available about the ancient Olympic Games?

Select all that apply.

• The modern Olympic Games are much different from those of the ancient Greeks.

• Greek writers wrote poems and histories about the Olympic Games.

• New sports were added over time as the Olympic Games progressed.

• Pottery painted with pictures of the Olympic Games has been preserved.

Which details from "The Olympic Tradition" imply that early Olympic Games were simpler affairs than the modern Olympics?

Select all that apply.

• No records were kept of events or winners for the first two hundred years of the Olympics.

• Only one sport, a footrace called a short sprint, was held at the first Olympics.

• The only important thing was who came in first.

• By 708 BC, wrestling, throwing a javelin (spear), chariot racing, and longer footraces became part of the games

Jack London values trickery or cunning. Which passages from The Road, Holding Her Down, Part 2, support this idea?

Select two that apply.

• Ah, there it comes. The shack has ridden out the engine. My first warning is when his feet strike the steps of the right-hand side of the blind. Like a flash I am off the blind to the left and running ahead past the engine.

• I let it go by, and prepare to board the second blind. But the shack on the first blind has jumped off and is at my heels. Also, I have a fleeting glimpse of the lantern of the shack who rode out the engine.

• Halfway along the roof of the coach, I turn, retrace my way softly and quickly to the platform both the shack and I have just abandoned. The coast is clear. I descend to the ground on the off-side of the train and hide in the darkness.

• I alone have twice stopped the overland with its many passengers and coaches, its government mail, and its two thousand steam horses straining in the engine.