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CAASPP Practice

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the meaning of 'compare'?
a)
Examine in order to note likenesses between two things or what they have in common
b)
 Examine in order to note significant differences between two or more things
2.
What is the meaning of 'contrast'?
a)
Examine in order to note likenesses between two things or what they have in common
b)
Examine in order to note significant differences between two or more things
3.
What is the meaning of 'describe'?
a)
To decide or conclude through reasoning or observation. 
b)
 Clear, leaving no room for interpretation, leaving nothing merely implied
c)
To tell or show with written or spoken words; point out facts or details
4.
What is the meaning of 'identify'?
a)
To make clear or understandable to others; make plain. 
b)
To establish as particular by noting individual features or characteristics in isolation. 
c)
To tell or show with written or spoken words; point out facts or details 
d)
 Expand, elaborate; add details.
5.
What is the meaning of 'demonstrate'?
a)
 To decide or conclude through reasoning or observation. 
b)
 Expand, elaborate; add details.
c)
: Elements that support ideas; smaller elements of structure.
d)
 To describe, explain, display or illustrate through examples 
6.
What is the meaning of 'determine'?
a)
 To quote specifically, recall.
b)
To decide or conclude through reasoning or observation.
7.
What is the meaning of 'support'?
a)
Expand, elaborate; add details
b)
To break down into its constituents parts and examine them; determine meaning from.
c)
To back up, justify your answer, opinion, or claim (with evidence) 
8.
What is the meaning of 'theme'?
a)
To tell or show with written or spoken words; point out facts or details
b)
A unifying or dominant idea or motif. Often the answer to the question, “What did I learn?” 
9.
What is the meaning of 'infer'?
a)
 To establish as particular by noting individual features or characteristics in isolation.
b)
To deduce, conclude, to derive by reasoning; to guess, figure out or surmise from evidence. 
10.
What is the meaning of 'summarize'?
a)
Elements that support ideas; smaller elements of structure.
b)
To state or express in concise form the essential components of something, usually chronologically
11.

When you use information from an article to back up what you are saying it is called what?

a)

citing introductions

b)

Milkshake

c)

Citing evidence

12.

Read the sentences from the passage.


Day after day they dug. Their neighbor was astonished to see how long and hard the young men worked.


What does the word astonished most likely mean?

a)

disappointed

b)

discovered

c)

satisfied

d)

surprised

13.

Read the sentence from the passage.


It became clear, even to their father, that the boys were lazy.


What does the phrase even to their father tell the reader about the story?

a)

It took the father a long time to teach the boys a new kind of work.

b)

It took the father longer than others to understand his sons were lazy.

c)

The father knew all along that his boys did not like to work on the family farm.

d)

The father knew many other people who could be trained to help him on the farm.

14.
The actual words from something you read; a quotation.
a)
textual evidence
b)
rhetorical
c)
narrative essay
15.
A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response
a)
archetype
b)
thesis
c)
plagiarism