ELA Multiple Choice Test Prep

What two lines from the poem support the answer? What does the word support mean?

• to give details
• to back up your answer with proof or evidence
• to give a clear answer
• to decide something based on what you read

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

What description best recounts the poem?  What does the the word recounts mean as used here?

• to add details
• to choose the best one
• to tell in detail or to give the facts
• to tell a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Which sentence from the passage best describes the cowboy?  What does the word describes mean?

• to remember
• to back up your answer
• to write what something is
• to tell or show with written words; use facts or details

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Which detail from the passage explains why animals play?  What does the word explains mean?

• to give the best answer
• to make clear or understandable to others
• to prove a point
• right from the text

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Which detail from the passage explains why the girl was upset?  What does the word detail mean?

• a fact
• to add detail
• to account for
• right from the text; a piece from the text that support or help explain answers

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the central idea in the passage? What is this question asking you to do?

• to compare the passage to another passage

• to find the most important or central thought of the passage

• to tell the meaning of the story

• to find the authors point of view

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Identify the text structure of this passage.  What is this question asking you to do?

• to identify how the author organized information in the text
• to find the most important or central thought of the text
• to retell the passage in sequence
• to find the authors point of view

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

How does the description of the playful cat support that the cat was happy?  Define support.

• to combine what you know with what you read
• to choose a piece from the text
• to decide something based on what you read
• to back up your answer with proof or evidence

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

How are the first 4 paragraphs organized?   What does organized mean?

• to tell what the author wanted you to learn
• to tell the author's main idea
• to tell the text structure
• to identify what the first 4 paragraphs were about

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

What is the central idea of the passage? What does central idea mean?

• the author's point of view

• the author's most important idea

• the details the author used

• the author's purpose for writing

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2