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Double Dutch Weekly Test

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does the word competition mean in the sentence below?


The skaters had a competition to see who could skate fastest.

a)

contest

b)

lesson

c)

statement

d)

timer

2.

What does the word identical mean in the sentence below?


The two shells looked identical.

a)

ancient

b)

similar

c)

uniform

d)

exactly alike

3.

What does the word element mean in the sentence below?


The fan was the element that failed the work.

a)

mixture

b)

part

c)

quarter

d)

strap

4.

What does the word routine mean in the sentence below?


Brushing your teeth is an important part of your morning routine.

a)

household chores

b)

walk in the park

c)

regular course of action

d)

way to learn new things

5.

What does the word unison mean in the sentence below?


The girls started to giggle in unison.

a)

at the same time

b)

before going outside

c)

with a crowd of people

d)

while making silly faces

6.

What does the word appreciation mean in the sentence below?


The mayor gave the students a certificate in appreciation for all their hard work.

a)

evidence

b)

favor

c)

school

d)

thanks

7.

What does the word pronunciation mean in the sentence below?


The teacher had his students practice the pronunciation of the vocabulary words.

a)

how to do something

b)

how to say something

c)

how to spell something

d)

how to write something

8.

What does the word decision mean in the sentence below?


Gregor made the best decision he could based on the facts that he had.

a)

apology

b)

choice

c)

disguise

d)

report

9.

What does the word explosion mean in the sentence below?


The loud clap of thunder sounded like an explosion.

a)

the beating of a drum

b)

something blowing up

c)

the applause of a crowd

d)

something winding down

10.

What does the word population mean in the sentence below?


Because there is plenty of food, the rabbit population is growing very quickly.

a)

geography

b)

emergency

c)

green plants

d)

total number

11.

At the beginning of the article, five girls are...

a)

an award-winning double Dutch team

b)

hoping to become a double Dutch team

c)

learning to jump rope and practicing double Dutch

d)

sad after losing their first double Dutch competition

12.

At the beginning of the article, why does the author describe the team in such detail?

a)

to show how well they work together as a team

b)

to show how much the team needs to improve

c)

to show how different each team member is

d)

to speed up the narrative

13.

Which sentence indicates that the article is moving back in history?

a)

"Coach Rockett was thrilled but intimidated."

b)

"In the ropes, it seems that the Steppers defy gravity."

c)

"Life for the Snazzy Steppers wasn't always so sweet."

d)

"Coach Rockett even wrote a song to help teach his girls how to jump..."

14.

The first thing Coach Rockett does is...

a)

learn to jump rope himself

b)

organize a double Dutch team

c)

get an idea by looking out the window

d)

buy several hundred yards of clothesline

15.

Between the team's first competition in Harlem and their win in New York, the girls...

a)

are angry

b)

quit the team

c)

stop practicing their styles

d)

do better at each competition

16.

The snazzy steppers become best friends...

a)

before they join the team

b)

when Coach Rockett tells them to

c)

the first time they win a first-place trophy

d)

after they compete together for a long time

17.

Which statement best proves that this article has a narrative structure?

a)

It reads like a story.

b)

The events are real.

c)

The people are real.

d)

It is about several people.

18.

In the article, the author moves back and forth from the present to the past in order to...

a)

add rhythm

b)

include jump rope songs

c)

make the selection mysterious

d)

show how much the team has improved

19.

The songs in this article have a strong rhythm most likely because...

a)

songs with a strong rhythm always rhyme too

b)

Coach Rockett wanted to make the songs slow

c)

strong rhythms match the movements of jumping rope

d)

the girls had to work harder to get into shape for the competition

20.

Read this stanza from the article


I had a little puppy.

His name was Tiny Tim.

I put him in the bathtub,

to see if he could swim.


Which of the following contribute to the rhythm in the stanza above?

a)

a story

b)

a puppy

c)

funny words

d)

rhyming words

21.

Which word best completes the sentence?


Yesterday I went to the mall to make a ( ).

a)

purcase

b)

purchase

c)

purshase

d)

purthase

22.

Which word best completes the sentence?


When the trick did not work, the magician felt ( ).

a)

foolich

b)

foolish

c)

foolitch

d)

foolith

23.

Which word best completes the sentence?


The man in the painting looked ( ).

a)

youchful

b)

youshful

c)

youtchful

d)

youthful

24.

Which word best completes the sentence?


Mary decided to give away some old ( ).

a)

cloches

b)

closhes

c)

clotches

d)

clothes

25.

Which word best completes the sentence?


The farmer planted fields of ( ).

a)

cheat

b)

sheet

c)

theat

d)

wheat

26.

Which word best completes the sentence?


When grandma sewed quilts, she always used a ( ).

a)

chimble

b)

shimble

c)

thimble

d)

whimble

27.

Which word best completes the sentence?


Jason could not hear over the clatter of the ( ).

a)

machines

b)

mashines

c)

matchines

d)

mathines

28.

Which word best completes the sentence?


One animal that is extinct is the ( ).

a)

mammoch

b)

mammosh

c)

mammotch

d)

mammoth

29.

Which word best completes the sentence?


The workers dug a very deep ( ).

a)

dich

b)

ditsh

c)

ditch

d)

dith

30.

Which word best completes the sentence?


The children sat down to play a game of ( ).

a)

checkers

b)

sheckers

c)

theckers

d)

wheckers

31.

What is the proper noun in the sentence?


Elizabeth watches me perform.

a)

watches

b)

perform

c)

me

d)

Elizabeth

32.

What is the common noun in the sentence?


Sarah learns dance steps from them.

a)

Sarah

b)

dance

c)

steps

d)

learns

33.

What is the proper noun in the sentence?


Her dance teacher used to be a Rockette.

a)

her

b)

teacher

c)

dance

d)

Rockette

34.

What is the common noun in the sentence?


We played with the sheep last night.

a)

sheep

b)

we

c)

night

d)

played

35.

What is the proper noun in the sentence?


We are visiting NYC!

a)

visiting

b)

we

c)

NYC

d)

are

36.

What is the common noun in the sentence?


Reed Junior High School hosts the tournament.

a)

hosts

b)

School

c)

Reed Junior High

d)

tournament

37.

What is the proper noun in the sentence?


A Saguro is a kind of catcus.

a)

cactus

b)

Saguro

c)

kind

d)

is

38.

What is a common noun in the sentence?


Archie snapped his fingers at us.

a)

snapped

b)

us

c)

fingers

d)

Archie

39.

What is the proper noun in the sentence?


She studied African dance at the studio.

a)

African

b)

studio

c)

dance

d)

she

40.

What is the common noun in the sentence?


She chanted rhymes at Bert's Studio.

a)

chanted

b)

Ber'ts

c)

she

d)

rhymes