Unit 5 Assessment Exploration

Which of these are often included in MEMOIRs?

• It focuses on a specific moment in someone’s life.

• It is told by someone who experienced the events.

• It tells about a modern-day family.

• It does not include any dialogue.

• It tells how something negative turned out to be positive.

Which piece of evidence supports a CENTRAL IDEA that "a sense of home is created by people and memories, not the house itself"?

• All of us dancing together was when the old green house really started to feel like home.

• I felt like I was betraying my room by taking down all my posters and leaving its walls bare

• Of course all that dusty old furniture was gone, as were all those pictures of strangers.

• There was my old bed and lamp, and someone had even hung up one of my music posters.

I remember when we first looked at the house. Mom and Dad had let me come house hunting, and I didn’t like any of the houses very much. The last one we looked at was an old green house with a big, empty yard. There were no trees to climb or bushes to hide in, so right off the bat I was against it. Inside were dusty old chairs that didn’t look very comfortable and pictures on the wall of a bunch of strangers. The kids’ bedroom didn’t have any of the cool music posters or other decorations that I had in my room. I couldn’t imagine living in this strange place, but for some reason my parents liked it.

What is the CENTRAL IDEA of this paragraph?

• how the narrator felt about the house before her family moved in

• why the new house was an improvement on the old house

• problems with the house that were fixed when the family moved in

• the sense of style of the house’s previous owners

Read these sentences.

The last one we looked at was an old green house with a big, empty yard. There were no trees to climb or bushes to hide in, so right off the bat I was against it.

               

Which inferences can you best make from these sentences? Choose two options.

• There are trees at the narrator's old house.

• The narrator does not want to give up her old home.

• The narrator does not like trees and bushes.

• The narrator believes climbing trees is dangerous.

• The narrator is afraid of getting lost in the bushes.

Read these sentences.

Sure enough, there were Mom and Dad in the living room of the new house, dancing and grinning. Jessica and I couldn’t help but join in.

               

Which inference can be made based on these sentences?

• Taking part in a family tradition in the new house is helping the narrator accept her new home.

• Listening and dancing to music in the new house is more enjoyable than in the old house.

• The narrator did not realize that her parents had packed the CDs.

• The narrator is embarrassed to see her parents dancing.

Which sentence from the passage best supports a universal theme about "THE POWER OF LOVE TO TRIUMPH OVER ALL"?

• Even here, in this cold and lonely place, he felt how much he adored his daughter.

• If he had been more patient, things might have been different.

• He was ready to stay here and give up the battle.

• His hands grabbed the sack and pushed the corn-cob doll back inside.

What is an epic?

• something written in poetic form

• dialogue

• a story about ancient Greece

Which of these phrases supports a CENTRAL IDEA that "explorers in the West bravely faced danger to discover unfamiliar lands"?

• the discovery of a new world as large as half Europe

• What Radisson had begun in 1659–1660

• the last act in that drama of heroes

• empire out of wilderness

Which of these "empire out of wilderness

pieces of evidence" from a passage would best support an inference that "Explorers of the day risked death and other dangers on their journeys"?

• The passage says Lewis and Clark returned “without losing a single man but Sergeant Floyd.”

• The passage says De la Vérendrye “found the way barred by the Rockies.”

• The passage says De la VérendThe passage says that the exploration begun by De la Vérendrye “was completed by Lewis and Clark in 1805.”

• The passage says that the explorers “all alike possessed the same hero-qualities.”

The word pervade uses the Latin root -vad- and the Latin prefix per-, which means “throughout.” Based on your knowledge of -vad-, choose the most likely meaning of pervade.

• tear throughout

• spread throughout

• absent throughout

• stay throughout