Fiction: A New Game Assessment

1. What is the meaning of the word EARSHOT in paragraph 10?

• hearing distance
• a quiet whisper
• a loud, explosive noise
• a gymnasium

2. Which event belongs in the empty box?

• Ricardo named the game.
• They played for 30 minutes.
• Each team had 5 players.
• Mitch was bored.

3. The information in the "Comparison Chart" best supports which of the following statements?

• Thunder Hoops players can pass the ball by throwing it.
• Basketball and Thunder Hoops were invented in 1891.
• Basketball and Thunder Hoops have the same number of players per team.
• Basketball and Thunder Hoops both have two teams.

4. This line best supports which idea from the selection?

• Sweat poured into the students' eyes after the game.
• The students that played Thunder Hoops enjoyed the game.
• The shortest players had a good chance to score a goal.
• Twenty students could play at the same time.

5. Which sentence best describes Mitch and Rolo's relationship?

• Mitch and Rolo are close friends who play and work well together.
• Rolo and Mitch are teammates on a basketball team.
• Mitch and Rolo are brothers that like to invent new games.
• Mitch and Rolo sometimes disagree, but they do agree that basketball is fun.

6. Which of the following sentences tells how Thunder Hoops is different from basketball?

• Thunder Hoops requires more skill to play than basketball.
• Basketball teams have taller players than Thunder Hoops teams.
• There are more teams in Thunder Hoops than in basketball.
• It is easier to play Thunder Hoops inside than basketball.

7. What can the reader conclude about Mitch?

• Mitch is easily bored and has little imagination.
• Mitch is willing to use his friends' ideas.
• Mitch is good at playing Thunder Hoops but not basketball.
• Mitch has good ideas, but has trouble working in groups.

8. What do the students learn from Mitch and Rolo's new game?

• One cure for boredom is creativity and a willingness to try something new.
• Being bored is not so bad.
• New games can be dangerous if the rules of the game are not written clearly.
• The rules of basketball should be changed.

9. Why is it important to the story that Rolo did not like having his shots blocked?

• Anna was taller than Ricardo and she was always blocking his shots.
• The students enjoyed playing Thunder Hoops more than basketball.
• A rule was made that players could not block shots in a game of Thunder Hoops.
• Rolo was always complaining about the rules of basketball.

10. Which sentence from the story best explains why Mitch wanted to invent a new game?

• I'm bored out of my skull, Rolo.
• Rolo was short, and he didn't like to have his shots blocked by taller players.
• A girl named Anna and a boy named Ricardo were particularly interested.
• It wasn't every day that a new game was invented.