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What type of coal causes the muck fires in Tangerine County to burn for long lengths of time?

• Pyrite
• Lignite
• Peat
• Graphite

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Floods can cause tremendous damage.  They can ruin houses, roads and buildings. Floods can take down trees and cause mudslides. It often leaves mud, sand and debris behind.  It can take months to clean up after a flood.
 What is the main idea?

• Floods can cause a lot of damage.
• Floods cause mudslides.
• Floods damage houses and roads. 

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Which best describes a summary?

• a really long detailed piece of writing
• the entire text told in your own words
• a dumb thing that teachers make you write
• the main ideas and important details of a text

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At one time, people thought that blowing dust was the way to clean.  Then in the 1870s Hubert Booth, an engineer, tried placing a handkerchief between his mouth and a couch and sucking in.  The film of dirt on the other side of the handkerchief suggested that suctioning in dirt was the way to clean.  Booth designed fans that sucked dust into pillow cases.  He even sold some to the Queen of England.  About thirty years later, the Hoover Company came out with an upright suctioning machine on rollers.  The rest is vacuum cleaner history.  Which title best summarizes this paragraph?

• The FIrst Vacuum Cleaners
• How the Queen Cleaned
• Blowing in the Dust
• What Hoover Did

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What do we know about Scrooge's childhood?

• he was lonely
• he wasn't a very good reader
• he attended a very small school
• he had a bad relationship with his sister

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Opinions don’t belong in a summary. You shouldn’t mention if you liked a text or not. Stick to facts and what the text is mostly about, or the main ideas.

Read the following passage.

The article “Orange You Glad” by Wanda Biederman is all about oranges: the history, varieties and products that are made from them. Oranges are not known to grow wildly. They likely originated in Asia, either in India or in China. Spanish travelers brought the fruit to the Americas in the 1500s. There are bitter oranges and sweet oranges. I like to use bitter oranges to make jelly. Orange juice is made from oranges, and orange oil, which is used to flavor foods, is made of sweet oranges. Oranges are packed with vitamin C, a fact that historically made them a popular food among sailors. Vitamin C helps heal wounds and repair bones. The article concludes with the idea that people should eat an orange, and not an apple, every day.

Which of the following details from the passage does not belong in the summary?

• “They likely originated in Asia…”
  
• “...that historically made them a popular food among sailors.”
  
• “Vitamin C helps heal wounds and repair bones.”
  
• “I like to use bitter oranges to make jelly.”
  

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Which is the paragraph where key ideas or claims are developed and explained?

• Introduction
• Body paragraph
• Key paragraph
• Conclusion

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Which line contains an idea that would be most important to include in a summary of this passage?

Rosa Parks has been called the "mother of the civil rights movement." She is one of the most important people of the 20th century. In December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was sent to court. She was found guilty of breaking the law.

Her act sparked a boycott of the bus system by blacks. Blacks refused to use the buses for more than a year. The boycott introduced the country to a man named Martin Luther King, Jr. People all over the country came to know King. Soon, the U.S. Supreme Court made segregation on city buses against the law.

Over the next forty years, Rosa Parks helped make Americans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle. She earned many honors, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize. She is an example of courage and strength. She inspires all Americans to live free.

• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger.

• The boycott introduced the country to a man named Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Rosa Parks was sent to court. She was found guilty of breaking the law.

• Rosa Parks is an example of courage and strength. She inspires all Americans to live free.

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The range of a bird refers to the area over which it flies. some birds are able to fly great distances, and range over almost the whole world. Other birds have a very small range. they travel over areas smaller than one hundred miles. What is the main idea?

• Where to find a bird range

• Why birds like to travel

• How bird ranges differ

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In Science class, you have to read about potential and kinetic energy. In Social Studies class, you read about mummies and pyramids. How is Science class and Social Studies class different?

• In both Science and Social Studies you read.

• In Science you read about potential and Kinetic energy and in Social Studies you read about mummies and pyramids.

• You watch videos in science and read in Social Studies.

• All of the above.

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