Grade 7 ELAR Pre-Assessment 1st Six Weeks

What is the author's purpose in writing this excerpt from The Winter Hibiscus?

• To show that Saeng is able to revisit a childhood memory

• To teach the difference between a nursery and a greenhouse

• To inform the reader of how there are many different flowers Saeng could buy

• To persuade Saeng that the hibiscus is the best flower in the greenhouse

Which sentence best shows how Saeng is affected when she sees the flowers in the greenhouse?

• Still, she dutifully followed the other woman through the greenhouse door and walked in.

• It was like walking into another world.

• Slowly, Saeng walked down the narrow aisle toward the hibiscus.

• Plants that she had not even realized she had known but had forgotten drew her back into her childhood world.

Read the dictionary entry below. stream \strēm\ n. and v.

1. a small, narrow river

2. a continuous flow

3. To run or flow in a continuous current

4. to transmit over the internet

Which definition most closely matches the way the word stream is used in paragraph 5?

• a small, narrow river

• a continuous flow

• To run or flow Revised March 2023 in a continuous current

• to transmit over the internet

The leaf Saeng carries in the excerpt is important because -

• It helps Saeng find a plant that causes her to have vivid memories of her childhood.

• It was given to Saeng by someone important to Saeng during her childhood.

• It is essential in teaching Saeng about her past.

How does Paragraph 12 contribute to the development of the plot?

• Saeng cannot tell the florist she does not have time to see the greenhouse

• Saeng learns the name for the plant she has been looking for

• Saeng is surprised by how hot it is in the greenhouse

• Saeng instantly shifts how she views the plants

What is the correct way to write sentence 2?

• I did not think a field trip to an outdoor museum, would be interesting, but I was wrong.

• I did not think a field trip to an outdoor museum would be interesting, but I was wrong?

• I did not think a field trip to an outdoor museum would be interesting but I was wrong!

• I did not think a field trip to an outdoor museum would be interesting, but I was wrong.

What change should be made in sentence 3?

• Change sculpture garden to Sculpture Garden

• Change sculpture to sculptor

• Insert a comma after place

• Change to to too

What change should be made in sentence 4?

• Change classmates to classmate's

• Change sights to cites

• Change got to gets

• Change saw to see

What change should be made in sentence 5?

• Change asked to asks

• Insert a comma after admire

• Change was to were

• Delete the period after outdoors