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Which detail shows that the story takes place in the future?

• The children live on Venus.
• Scientists study the sun. 
• It has been raining for 7 years. 
• Children dream of the sun. 

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Niagra Falls is one of the most beautiful sights in North America. It is on the Niagra River halfway between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Niagra Falls is located on the American and Canadian border. The American Falls is 167 feet high. On the Canadian side, the Horseshoe Falls is 161 feet high. 
Which of the following is NOT a supporting detail? 

• The American Falls is 167 feet high
• The Horseshoe Falls is 161 feet high
• Niagra Falls is one of the most beautiful sights in North America
• It is located between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie

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You should determine the main idea by combining the supporting details.

• True
• False

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What does it take to be a survivor?  Gary Paulsen knows.  This well-known writer had a difficult childhood and left home at age fourteen.  He worked with a carnival, on a farm, on a ranch and as a truck driver. He's also been a teacher, editor and singer. Today, Paulsen receives more than 400 letters a day from readers who identify with the struggles of the main character in his award-winning books, Hatchet, Brian's Winter and The River.  When he's not writing, Paulsen enjoys sailing and adventure.  Which title best summarizes this paragraph?

• Reading Gary Paulsen's Books
• Why Paulsen Left Home at Fourteen
• Paulsen: Survivor in Life and Literature
• Getting to Know Book Characters

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What is being built in Nya’s village?

• A school
• A hospital
• A museum
• A house for orphans

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What is a main idea?

• the main character in a story
  
• the message about life that an author expresses
  
• the sequence of events in a story
  
• a description of what the story is mostly about

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If you read about...a giant cat trying to take over a city.

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When a tribute dies in the Hunger Games, how do others know?

• Other tributes do not know if someone has died.

• They get a text message telling them someone died.

• A cannon goes off to signal a Tribute has died.

• No one ever dies in the Hunger Games.

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Native Americans dried strips of meat, pounded it into a paste, and then mixed it with fat. Sometimes they added berries and sugar. Then they pressed it into small cakes. They called these cakes pemmican. Pemmican didn't spoil, and it provided lots of energy for people traveling or going hunting. Today explorers still carry and eat this food.

What is the passage mostly about?

• who uses pemmican today

• what can be put into pemmican

• how pemmican was prepared by Native Americans.

• why people eat pemmican today

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Refers to the point of the paragraph or story:

• setting

• main idea/central idea

• narrator

• point of view

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