Informational Post Test (4th-A) The Mystery of the Sphinx

What is the main idea of the passage?

• Explorers still do not know where to find the long-lost Great Sphinx of Egypt.

• Experts disagree about what the damage to the Great Sphinx of Egypt tells us about its age.

• Egyptians cannot explain why the pyramids are more famous than the nearby Great Sphinx.

• Scientists argue about what Egypt's Great Sphinx meant to the people who build it.

Read the example sentence: Some scientists believe that water was the cause of the erosion. The word erosion means the _________________.

• wearing away of stone

• drying up of the deserts

• building of structures

• flooding of valleys

What was the author's purpose for writing the passage?

• to convince readers to agree with an opinion

• to entertain readers with an ancient folktale

• to inform readers about different sides of an argument

• to retell a story from history using descriptive language

The Great Sphinx has a body shaped like a ________________________.

• man

• lion

• pyramid

• cone

Why do you think most scientists believe the Great Sphinx is the same age as the pyramids?

• They have the names of some pyramid builders who were alive when the Sphinx was built.

• They think that all of the buildings were made for people to stay dry during a wet period.

• They think that people living around the same time in history probably built all of the big structures.

• They have read carvings on the Sphinx that describe the pyramids being built.

Text features:

What is the text feature that is outlined in yellow (it includes an extra fact)?

• title

• index

• text box / fact box

• table of contents

Text features:

What is the text feature shown in this photo?

• title

• chart / graph

• diagram

• index

Text features:

What is the text feature that explains what is in a picture or photo?

• index

• bolded word

• text box

• caption

Text features:

What type of text feature is this photo?

• a picture

• close-up

• a diagram

• a chart

Text features:

What type of text feature is in the picture?

• map

• diagram

• quick link

• index