Copy of Unit 4, Lesson 5 - "Mice in the Mint"

1. What is an item?

• a collection of books
• a line of people waiting
• a small body of water
• a single thing in a group

2. Which word fits best in this sentence? The carrier _________ the mail in the morning.

• delivered
• pattered
• experienced
• insisted

3. A place where metal is made into coins is called a ___

• keen.
• feud.
• mint.
• gale.

4. What does the word bind mean in this sentence? Randy used string to bind the pieces of wood.

• carry
• tie together
• set on fire
• split

5. When something is complex, it is ______________.

• given away for free.
• worth a lot of money.
• hard to understand.
• shared with friends.

6. The following question has two parts. Part A: What did Thomas Jefferson contribute to the Constitutional Convention?

• He chose the title for the Constitution.
• Jefferson was the Secretary of the Treasury.
• Nothing, because he was not there.
• He chose the delegates from the states.

7. Part B: Which sentence from the story best supports your answer for Part A?

• That makes sense, I guess, but I can see how the states would be nervous about it.
• Jefferson did not take part in the Constitutional Convention at all.
• He is the Secretary of the Treasury.
• That was Thomas Jefferson's stance, along with many others.

8. Which of these events happened last?

• signing of the Declaration of Indpendence
• Constitutional Convention
• creation of a national bank
• passing of the Mint Act

9. Hamilton thought that consolidating the debt would __

• cement the Union.
• make some people rich.
• cause a credit problem.
• weaken the nation.

10. How do you know this story is written from the third-person point of view?

• The story happened long ago.
• The setting for the story is a real place.
• The narrator is not one of the characters in the story.
• The people mentioned in the story are real.