Roberto Clemente

What does the word league mean in the sentence below?

Twenty new players joined the soccer league.

• group of coaches

• group of teams

• field

What does the word fever mean in the sentence below?

On an island called Puerto Rico, where baseball players are as plentiful as tropical flowers in a rainforest, there was a boy who had very little but a fever to play and win at baseball.

• sickness

• passion

• willingness

• happiness

What is antonym is slammed.

Yuki slammed the truck door because he was mad.

• stared at

• shouted at

• banged shut

• closed gently

Which word best replaces the words spelled wrong in the following sentence?

The newspaper was full of words that were spelled wrong.

• misunderstood

• misliked

• misplayed

• misspelled

Which word best replaces the words naughty in the following sentence?

Mom scolds the puppy when it is naughty.

• misdates

• mistrust

• misbehaves

• miscounts

Why were kids twisting their necks this way and that?

• to ease their pain

• to be like Roberto

• to see the game better

• to try as hard as they could

What do these sentences from the story mean?

And Roberto's spirit is still growing. It grows in the bats and gloves and arms and legs of all the Latino baseball players who have flooded into the major leagues.

• Roberto's spirit causes baseball bats and gloves to grow larger.

• Roberto's spirit continues to inspire people.

• Roberto's spirit makes people cause floods in the major leagues.

Why were Roberto's new Pittsburgh fans so excited about him?

• He had a Spanish name.

• He used a guava baseball bat.

• He could hit, catch, and run very well.

What is the plural form of the word hour?

• hourses

• hours

• hour's

What is the plural form of the word boy?

• boyes

• boyses

• boys

• boyse