5.1 Comprehension

Where does this selection take place?

• Nebraska

• Utah

• California

• New York

What made the crowd laugh at the celebration?

• They have been told funny stories.

• The band members are wearing silly hats.

• The executives cannot hit the spike.

• They are happy about the railroad being complete.

Which of these is a fact about the transcontinental railroad?

• The railroad took eight years to complete.

• The railroad made a vast country one.

• The railroad changed life in America.

• America would not be with it is today without it.

What happens right after Thomas Durant swung his hammer and missed?

• A band begins to play.

• A worker is summoned.

• A railroad executive makes a speech.

• Two locomotives inch toward one another.

The author wrote this selection to

• help readers learn about how our country was formed.

• tell about how difficult it is to build a transcontinental railroad.

• inform us that Americans did not duild the railroad.

• tell about how locomotives work.