The Wizard of Oz

Who is he?

• Buster, the dinosaur

• The Tin Man

• The Scarecrow

• Toto

• Ash, Luni's dog

How many GOOD witches are in the city of Oz?

• One

• Two

• Four

• Twelve

Click your shoes... How many times?

• Two times

• One milllion times

• Three times

• Ten times

What feeling does the author communicate most strongly in the passage?

• respect for the power of the wind

• anger that the weather is about to change

• suspense about possible danger from the storm

• excitement that something interesting will occur

In the selection from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy lives with her aunt and uncle. When Dorothy first came to live with them, Aunt Em “would scream and press her hand upon her heart” when she heard Dorothy laugh. Why?

• She was afraid that Dorothy was doing something risky.

• She thought that the noise would upset Uncle Henry.

• She misunderstood the meaning of the noise.

• She was startled because she rarely heard laughter.

As explained in the selection from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, why does Dorothy fail to enter the cyclone cellar in time?

• She is unable to move quickly enough.

• She stops to get Toto and take him with her.

• She cannot find it in the darkness of the storm.

• She does not hear Aunt Em tell her to go there.

In the selection from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, what does the cyclone do to the house?

• It spins the house around, lifts it up, and carries it far away.

• It causes the house’s porch and roof to blow away.

• It lifts the house and sets it down gently in a nearby field.

• It destroys every part of the house except the cyclone cellar.

Based on its context, choose the meaning of broke that the author uses in this sentence from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. "Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions."

• put an ending to

• acted against

• interrupted

• smashed

What does the context suggest is the most likely meaning of sober in this description from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?"[The sun and wind] had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray …....

• lovely

• serious

• peaceful

• threatening

The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B. Read this passage from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. "When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too .… She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled now." Part A What does the context of the passage suggest is the most likely meaning of gaunt

• tired

• bony

• sunburned

• hard-working