ELA Unit 1 test

Select the best definition for the word generation.

• a type of illness that is cured easily

• the name given to a group of islands

• all of the people born and living around the same time

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which sentence is an example of figurative language?

• "my mother was silent"

• She's happy as a clam

• "my mother walked in and then went to the back"

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which sentence from the story is an example of a direct quotation?

• “I’m making a wooden bucket."

• Once he tried to move the cup closer to him and it fell to the floor and broke.

• One day the old man’s son and his wife were sitting in their hut, resting.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

From which point of view are the sentences below told?

The grandfather had become very old. His son and the son’s wife no longer allowed him to eat with them at the table and had him take his meals near the stove. They gave him his food in a cup."

• first-person point of view

• second-person point of view

• third-person point of view

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

How do you know something is written in first-person point of view?

• The narrator understands knows everyones thoughts.

• The use of words like I, me, my, and mine to describe the events.

• The use of pronouns like you.

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which is a list of only common nouns?

• Denver, Vincent, Statue of Liberty

• Douglas, New Jersey, his

• man, home, garage

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

Based on the sentence below, what is the most likely meaning of orderlies?

They line up the old people in wheelchairs in the hallway as if they were about to be raced to the finish line by orderlies who don’t even look at them when they push them here and there.

• restaurant workers

• nursing home workers

• school workers

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which word is a possessive noun in this sentence:

The book's cover was torn.

• the

• book's

• cover

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

Read the story and answer the question:

Anyway, after my mother nags me for about a week, I let her drive me to Golden Years.

I get depressed the minute I walk into the place. They line up the old people in wheelchairs in the hallway as if they were about to be raced to the finish line by orderlies who don’t even look at them when they push them here and there.

Based on the passage, what inference can you make about the narrator's desire to go visit her Abuelo at the nursing home?

• She's excited to go. 

• She does not want to go.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1