Adverb Test

Identify the Adverb: Early explorers unrealistically pictured the South Pole as a huge and wonderful land.

• huge
• early
• wonderful
• unrealistically

Identify the Adverb: They expected great treasures there.

• treasures
• expected
• there
• great

Identify the Adverb: With the goal of finding these treasures, Dutchman Abel Tasman left hopefully from southern India in 1642.

• southern
• 1642
• finding
• hopefully

Identify the Adverb: He sailed east and landed on an island near Australia.

• east
• Australia
• island
• sailed

Identify the Adverb: He continued his journey and saw New Zealand but did not find the great southern land.

• Not

• Southern
• Great
• Journey

Identify the question answered by the italicized adverb. In the blank write the letter

that corresponds to the correct answer.

Captain James Cook of the British Navy courageously took up the search for the

unknown land.

• When?

• Where?

• How?

• To What extent?

Identify the question answered by the italicized adverb. In the blank write the letter

that corresponds to the correct answer.

He sailed around Australia and headed south from New Zealand.

• When?

• Where?

• How?

• To what extent?

He eventually circled Antarctica, but ice prevented him from sighting land.

• When?

• Where?

• How?

• To What extent

Identify the question answered by the italicized adverb. In the blank write the letter

that corresponds to the correct answer.

He was able to search the area quite thoroughly, though.

• When?

• Where?

• How?

• To What extent?

Identify the question answered by each italicized adverb. In the blank write the letter

that corresponds to the correct answer.

He sailed all the way around Antarctica and proved definitely that the kind of land the

explorers had envisioned did not exist

• When?

• Where?

• How?

• To what extent?