7th LL OST Ch. 3 Lesson 2: Get Right to the Point (Main Idea)

1. What is the main theme of the above passage?

• A fall weather

• B what happens to the leaves during fall

• C the life cycle of a tree during the fall

• D weather during fall

2. What is the purpose of the excerpt?

• A to explain why leaves change colors and drop from trees.

• B to describe the colors of leaves in the fall.

• C to tell the reader about the Northeast part of the country.

• D to define chlorophyll.

3. Choose a suitable alternative title for this passage.

• A The Winter Sports

• B The Games' Growth

• C How the Olympics Evolved

• D Popular Sports

4. What is the main idea of this selection?

• A The Egyptians had a very advanced way of building the pyramids.

• B The Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids by hand.

• C To this day, historians are not entirely sure how the Egyptians built the pyramids.

5. What is the theme of this excerpt?

• A how the Egyptian army was used to build the pyramids.

• B several theories about how the Egyptian pyramids were built.

• C how the boulders were carved for the Egyptian pyramids.

• D how the Egyptians used architecture to build the pyramids.

6. What is the main idea the writer wants the reader to draw from these paragraphs?

• A Verdi was drawn and committed to music from an early age.

• B Verdi was hard on his spinet because he played it every day.

• C Verdi practiced the spinet for too many hours each day.

• D Verdi lived in Italy when he was a child.

7. What is Lincoln's purpose in delivering this speech?

• A To encourage people to not give up on the country being united as one

• B To encourage people to end the war and honor the dead

• C To convince the South to surrender so that it would end more quickly

• D To build a new cemetery at this location

8. What is an appropriate title for this article?

• A John Woo Puts the Action in Action!

• B A History of Action Movies

• C The Director who Hates Violence

• D Somewhere over the Rainbow

9. What is the main idea of this article?

• A The water in Kantonah is polluted.

• B Many people are moving their homes because the water in Kantonah is polluted.

• C Everyone should have the experience of seeing a house being moved.

• D The people of Kantonah are angry because of the quality of their drinking water.

10. What is this short article mostly about?

• A Where to find more information about the Hamburg workers' strike

• B The end result of the Hamburg workers' strike

• C the causes of the Hamburg workers' strike

• D The Hamburg unions