CKLA Unit 5 Assessment

Listen to the reading, and be ready to answer questions about it when you are done.

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What is the selection mainly about?

• Doctors use tuning forks to test hearing.

• Playing a guitar is difficult.

• Tuning forks are useful tools.

• Musical instruments have different pitches.

What does the word pure mean in the following sentence from the selection? “Tuning forks make a very pure kind of sound.”

• mixed with other sounds

• not mixed with other sounds

• beautiful sounds

• not beautiful sounds

What determines the pitch of the sound a tuning fork makes?

• the speed of vibration

• the frequency of vibration

• the length of the prongs

• all of the above

True or False: The shorter the prongs on a tuning fork, the higher the pitch

• True

• False

What is the main idea of this paragraph?

“Musicians use tuning forks to tune their instruments. A guitar player can play a note on her guitar. Then, she can compare that note with the note made by a tuning fork. If the note from the guitar sounds too high, she can loosen the string. If the note sounds too low, she can tighten the string. Then, she can try it again.”