CKLA Unit 5 - Light and Sound Assessment

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

Write true or false on the line following the sentence. 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.”

What does the word stingy mean in the following sentence from the selection? “The old knight was so stingy that he barely fed the horse who had served him so well for many years.”

• mean and unkind

• unwilling to give or spend

• lacking food

• starving

What happened when someone rang the bell in Atri’s town square?

What might have happened if the farmer had not fixed the rope that hung from the bell?

Why wasn’t the old knight sorry for his actions toward his horse?

• He felt he owned the horse and could treat it as he wished.

• He didn’t like the judge who ruled that he should take the horse home and care for him.

• He thought justice for a horse was silly.

• He was deaf and could not hear the bell.

What happened in the selection to show that the whole town approved of the judge’s ruling in favor of the old knight’s horse?