Owney: The Dog Who Rode the Trains

1. What is paragraph 5 mostly about? 

• How Owney got his name.

• Why Owney always came back home.

• When Owney first came to the post office.

• Where and how Owney traveled.

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2. Read the sentence from the article. 

"Then a scruffy brown dog with muddy paws and fur sticking out walked into the post office in Albany, New York."

Based on clues in the text, what could the word “scruffy” mean?

• Messy

• Scary

• Large

• Friendly

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3. Why did the post office put Owney’s picture on a stamp? 

• Owney traveled to many places with the mail.

• Owney liked to sleep on mailbags.

• Owney was owned by a mail worker. 

• Owney once hopped onto a train.

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4.  How did Owney travel from place to place?

• He walked with the post office workers. 

• He rode on wagons and trains.

• He rode in a basket on a bike. 

• He traveled in a car.

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 What is the central idea of this text?

• Owney was a dog who was very special to a lot of people. 

• Owney and his tags are in a museum and on stamps.

• The workers thought Owney was a cute dog.

• Owney was from Albany, New York.

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