Joseph and Caitlin were choosing the players for their teams. It was Caitlin's turn to choose, and only Jason was left. Caitlin said, "Jason." We can infer that…

Jason was not a very good player.

Caitlin wanted Jason on her team.

Caitlin had a hard time choosing a team member.

Which sentence from the selection suggests that Suzy likes to play basketball?

Suzy looks forward to her basketball games.

Suzy's mom makes Suzy practice basketball every day.

Suzy scored 5 points in her last basketball game.

Suzy and her mom get ice cream after her basketball games.

11. Read the sentence from Paragraph 21. “You’ve got a fire for good poets, I can see that,” he said, clasping my hand with a two-handed handshake. How does the author use figurative language in the sentence?

A. to compare her enthusiasm to fire

B. to relate her fire to embarrassment

C. to see if she wants to speak again

D. to determine if her interest is serious

13. Read the excerpt from Paragraph 6. When Mr. McCurdy called on me, I cleared my throat. That lump was still resting there from before. The reader can infer from this excerpt that the narrator is

B. nervous about being a new student.

C. having trouble swallowing her food.

D. trying to remember what the teacher said.

15. Read the sentence from Paragraph 15. Mr. McCurdy and I, we were on a roll? Which sentence best describes the meaning of this sentence?

B. The student and her teacher were having continuous success.

A. Both Deirdre and Mr. McCurdy moved around the room.

C. Deirdre and her teacher contradicted one another.

D. Deirdre and her teacher were uncomfortable being in front of the class.

RL4

Quiz

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English

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6th - 8th Grade

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Practice Problem

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Hard

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CCSS

RL.7.4, RL.5.4, RI.7.1

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Standards-aligned

Margaret Anderson

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19 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which tone is represented in the following passage?
Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!

Calm

Annoyed

Scary

Excited

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the tone of the following passage?
The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.

Eerie

Sarcastic

Passionate

Humorous

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Does "mood" focus on the audience or the narrator?

Reader

Narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

"Folks were prickly and fearful. Loyalist shopkeepers had been tarred and feathered by angry mobs and their shops destroyed. Each day dawned hotter than the one before" (106).
What is the mood of the passage?

romantic

sorrowful

joyful

suspenseful

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

Which is an example of a simile?

His room was a hurricane of a mess.

His room looked as if a hurricane came through.

A hurricane! AHHH!

The hurricane screamed through the town.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

What is a metaphor?

A comparison using "like" or "as"

A comparison without using "like" or "as"

A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.

An extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the definition of hyperbole?

When a group of of words all start with the same sound.

When words sound like what they mean.

An extreme exaggeration

A comparison

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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19 questions

Which tone is represented in the following passage? Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!

What is the tone of the following passage? The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.

Does "mood" focus on the audience or the narrator?

"Folks were prickly and fearful. Loyalist shopkeepers had been tarred and feathered by angry mobs and their shops destroyed. Each day dawned hotter than the one before" (106). What is the mood of the passage?

Which is an example of a simile?

What is a metaphor?

What is the definition of hyperbole?

Before the 1800's people didn't have right or left shoes. They had shoes of just one shape that they used for both feet. When people first saw right and left shoes, they laughed. They called them "crooked shoes." "What a silly idea," they said. You can tell that shoes before 1800:

Joseph and Caitlin were choosing the players for their teams. It was Caitlin's turn to choose, and only Jason was left. Caitlin said, "Jason." We can infer that…

Which sentence from the selection suggests that Suzy likes to play basketball?

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Which tone is represented in the following passage?
Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!

What is the tone of the following passage?
The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.

"Folks were prickly and fearful. Loyalist shopkeepers had been tarred and feathered by angry mobs and their shops destroyed. Each day dawned hotter than the one before" (106).
What is the mood of the passage?

Joseph and Caitlin were choosing the players for their teams. It was Caitlin's turn to choose, and only Jason was left. Caitlin said, "Jason."

We can infer that…