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Family Ties

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
______________ means smart or wise.
a)
clever
b)
breeze
c)
lantern
d)
predict
2.
The Clever Daughter in Law is a ________________ from China.
a)
folktale
b)
legend
c)
biography
d)
real story
3.
A _______________ lets you see in the dark. 
a)
clever
b)
lantern
c)
breeze
d)
father-in-law
4.
The two sisters ___________ their mother, so they asked to go visit her. 
a)
missed
b)
inherited
c)
denied
d)
refused
5.
The two sisters asked their _________________ if they could go visit their mother. 
a)
father-in-law
b)
husband
c)
brother-in-law
d)
boss
6.
The father-in-law wanted two gifts, wind wrapped in paper and _____________ wrapped in paper. 
a)
fire
b)
water
c)
land
d)
animals
7.
Who helped the sisters with the gifts for their father-in-law?
a)
a young farm girl
b)
a water buffalo
c)
a nice old lady
d)
the soldier boy
8.
What was the wind wrapped in paper?
a)
an electric fan
b)
a paper fan
c)
a lantern
d)
a flashlight
9.
What was the fire wrapped in paper?
a)
a lantern
b)
a flashlight
c)
a paper fan
d)
an electric fan
10.
____________________ are ways to test ideas. 
a)
experiments
b)
generations
c)
inherit
d)
members
11.
_______________ are age groups. 
a)
generations
b)
experiments
c)
members
d)
traits
12.
____________________ is when you acquire traits and/or wealth from your family. 
a)
experiments
b)
inherit
c)
members
d)
traits
13.
_______________ are the participants (people) within your family. 
a)
experiments
b)
factors
c)
members
d)
traits
14.
____________________ are the qualities that we inherit from our parents. 
a)
generations
b)
inherit
c)
members
d)
traits
15.
________________________ are ways in which family members are alike, for example: eye color, height, and hair color. 
a)
family traits
b)
factors
c)
generations
d)
experiments
16.
________________ did many experiments to try and understand how plants and animals inherit traits from their parents. 
a)
Gregor Mendel 
b)
Leonardo De' Pisa
c)
Timothy Ashland
d)
Robert Williams III
17.
A STRONG gene is called the _____________ trait.
a)
dominant
b)
recessive
18.
A WEAK gene is called the _____________ trait.
a)
dominant
b)
recessive
19.
If a pea plant flower is white, it is because it has two recessive (rr) _______________. 
a)
genes
b)
members
c)
dominants
d)
jeans
20.
Two words that have the same sound but different meanings and spellings are called:
a)
similes
b)
homophones
c)
homonyms
d)
synonyms
21.
Possessive nouns show:
a)
ownership
b)
names
c)
that something is more than one
d)
where the noun is
22.
The clue that a noun is singular possessive is:
a)
-ed
b)
a capital letter
c)
the word of
d)
's
23.
The correct way to write "the tail of the cat" would be:
a)
tail's cat
b)
cats tail
c)
cat's tail
d)
cats' tail
24.
Which kind of word do adverbs NOT describe:
a)
nouns
b)
verbs
c)
adjectives
d)
adverbs
25.
The adverb in the sentence "We will be leaving soon." is:
a)
leaving
b)
be
c)
soon
d)
we
26.
What does the word "ever" tell in this sentence:  I don't think I will ever understand adverbs.
a)
when
b)
where
c)
how
d)
to what extent