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Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 17mins
Natty Bumppo, called “the trapper” or “the old man,” lives in a Pawnee village before dying in which
Leatherstocking Tale?
The Deerslayer
The Last of The Mohicans
The Prairie
The Pioneers
Huck Finn travels down the Mississippi River with one of Miss Watson’s escaped slaves. What is that slave’s
name?
Jim
Pap
Sid
Muff
Look-alikes Tom and Edward switch places in which of the novels below?
The House of the Seven Gables
The Turn of the Screw
Little Men
The Prince and the Pauper
Meg Murry travels through a tesseract to save her scientist father in which of the following Newbery winners?
Criss Cross
A Wrinkle in Time
A Year Down Yonder
When You Reach Me
In the context of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Newbery-winning novel, who or what is Shiloh?
the site of a Civil War battle
a blind young girl
a Southern plantation
an abused dog
A sixth-grade academic team composed of four underdogs is the subject of which Newbery-winning novel
below?
Dear Mr. Henshaw
The View from Saturday
The Crossover
The Westing Game
Karen Cushman’s Newbery Medal-winning book profiles Brat, renamed Alyce, who apprentices herself to
what kind of professional?
midwife
shepherdess
potter
silversmith
Sally M. Walker’s YALSA Finalist Book Written in Bone focuses on archaeological evidence from Maryland
and what other American colony?
Plymouth
Roanoke
Jamestown
Pennsylvania
According to an Emily Arnold McCully biography, which of the following women Challenged Big
Business—and Won?
Josephine Baker
Sylvia Mendez
Ida M. Tarbell
Claudette Colvin
Match each animal-related nonfiction work with its author.
x. Kakapo Rescue 1. Caitlin O’Connell
y. Neighborhood Sharks 2. Katherine Roy
z. The Elephant Scientist 3. Sy Montgomery
x-3, y-2, z-1
x-2, y-1, z-3
x-2, y-3, z-1
x-1, y-2, z-3
She saves Wilbur, who grows up to be “Some Pig” in Charlotte’s Web. Which of the following girls is she?
Mary Lennox
Dorothy Gale
Rebecca Randall
Fern Arable
Which choice below INCORRECTLY matches an animal from The Jungle Book with his species?
Baloo – bear
Kaa – tiger
Akela – wolf
Bagheera – panther
He visits Lilliput, whose inhabitants are six inches high, and Brobdingnag, whose residents are giants. Who
is this children’s novel hero?
Dr. John Dolittle
Stuart Little
Robinson Crusoe
Lemuel Gulliver
Dewey Kerrigan lives with her scientist father, who is working on an atomic bomb at Los Alamos, in which
of the following novels?
Revolution
The Round House
Far Far Away
The Green Glass Sea
Which of the choices below describes Hà, the protagonist of Inside Out and Back Again?
a Vietnamese refugee in Alabama
a girl with Asperger’s whose brother died in a school shooting
a child whose father works on Alcatraz Island
an orphan who saves her foster parents from criminals
Which of the following authors created Ranger the dog in The Underneath and Bingo the raccoon in The True
Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp?
Amy Timberlake
Kevin Henkes
Kathi Appelt
Christopher Paul Curtis
In an Edward Lear poem, what creatures “went to sea / In a beautiful pea-green boat”?
the raven and the writing desk
the owl and the pussycat
the dish and the spoon
the walrus and the carpenter
John Keats was best known for what kind of poem, which he composed on subjects like a Grecian urn and a
nightingale?
elegy
ode
epic
sonnet
Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Choices” contains which of the following lines?
“You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I’ll rise.”
“But our love it was stronger by far than the love / Of those who were older than we—”
“If i can’t have / what i want…then / my job is to want / what i’ve got…
“How dreary – to be – Somebody! / How public – like a Frog –”
Match each Martin Luther King, Jr. quotation to its source.
x. “Free at last! Free at last!” 1. “I Have a Dream” speech
y. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” 2. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
z. “…we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” 3. “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech
x-1, y-2, z-3
x-1, y-2, z-3
x-2, y-1, z-3
x-3, y-1, z-2
Which of the Native American chiefs below declared he would “fight no more forever” after unsuccessfully
trying to lead the Nez Perce toward Canada?
Geronimo
Sitting Bull
Chief Joseph
Crazy Horse
Eliza Doolittle is the heroine of which of the following plays?
The Glass Menagerie
The Importance of Being Earnest
A Raisin in the Sun
Pygmalion
Which of the characters below did Edgar Allan Poe create in what some consider the world’s first published
detective story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”?
Charlie Gordon
C. Auguste Dupin
James Dillingham Young
Fortunato
In the Walter Dean Myers story of the same name, what is the treasure of Lemon Brown?
a harmonica and newspaper clippings
an oil painting
a basketball and a trophy
a bag of gold coins
Stephen Vincent Benét wrote a short story about a New Hampshire farmer who sells his soul to the Devil.
Which man below successfully defends Jabez Stone against Mr. Scratch?
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
Which of the mythical creatures below burns itself on a funeral pyre, only to rise reborn from the ashes?
sphinx
phoenix
yeti
Loch Ness monster
One of the following statements about Babe the Blue Ox is FALSE. Which one?
He produced all the dairy products for Paul Bunyan’s lumber camp.
He fell in love with Bessie the Yeller Cow.
Blue snow stained him his distinctive color.
His tracks along with his owner’s formed Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes.
In Aesop’s fable “The Lion and the Mouse,” how did the mouse help the lion?
He removed a thorn from the lion’s paw.
He scratched the lion’s itchy mane.
He squeaked to alert the lion of danger.
He chewed through the hunter’s ropes that held the lion.
A dangling modifier is part of which sentence below?
After reading the novel, I easily completed the book report.
Thirsty, the sodas were gone in a flash.
With an excited squeal, Collette collected her award.
Digging in her purse, Dylan retrieved her cell phone.
Match each verb phrase with its example.
x. Mrs. Frey, perplexed by the student’s question, ignored him. 1. infinitive
y. To be in the minority brings a unique set of challenges. 2. appositive
z. Sassy, my cat, is as intelligent as he is gorgeous. 3. participial
x-1, y-2, z-3
x-2, y-1, z-3
x-3, y-1, z-2
x-3, y-2, z-1
Which type of clause below will NEVER begin with a subordinating conjunction?
adjective
independent
noun
adverbial
Which of the following sentences exhibits no mechanics or usage errors?
She wore out less shoes by going barefoot.
Getting more sleep will have a positive affect on your health.
The rabbit twitches it’s nose when it’s hungry.
He wanted a hover board, but his parents objected.
Her tail wagged, and she barked as if she were happy to see me. The preceding sentence exhibits what
grammatical structure?
compound-complex
complex
compound
simple
Which of the following sentences is punctuated INCORRECTLY?
Did you go to the Fords’ house for dinner last night?
“When,” he asked, “do you want to begin?”
I’m here; but you’re over there.
The Grand Canyon, which is my favorite national park, is in Arizona.
her cousin will spend the spring semester in madrid, not on harvard university’s campus. How many words in
the previous sentence need to be capitalized?
3
4
5
6
Which of the conjunctions below is subordinating?
either
but
yet
because
