Ruby Goldberg's Bright Idea Vocabulary Quiz

Match the definition "an idea about the way things work"

• superstition

• theory

• caution

• cunning

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Which word means "a piece of paper given to someone giving them the right to handle their invention"?

• tension

• caution

• patent

• disrupting

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is the definition for the word "cunning"?

• good at fooling others

• breaking apart

• close care

• to be concerned

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Choose one of the three words below to fill in the blank.

The students were ____ class by talking to each other.

preoccupied, spewed, disrupting

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Which word means "the force that affects objects that are pulled or stretched"?

• pollinate

• theory

• caution

• tension

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

In the story "Ruby Goldberg's Bright Idea", what object spewed out of Dominic's pencil case?

• pencils

• markers

• buttons

• erasers

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Which word choice best completes the sentence?

The butterfly ____ the flower in the garden.

spewed, cautioned, pollinated

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

Match the definition to the word...

"to be concerned with a situation"

• tension

• preoccupied

• theory

• cunning

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

What is a synonym for "caution"?

• hard

• broken

• watchfulness

• patent

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Which word means "a belief based on ignorance or fear"?

• superstition

• spewed

• patent

• preoccupied

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4