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Double Dutch Story Test

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

At the beginning of the article, five girls are

a)

going on a picnic

b)

learning to jump rope and practicing double Dutch

c)

an award winning double Dutch team

d)

a great basketball team

2.

The first thing Coach Rockett does is

a)

learn to jump rope himself

b)

organizes the Double Dutch team and goes to the olympics

c)

gets an idea by looking out the window

d)

quit the team

3.

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

a)

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

b)

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

c)

"Forty girls showed up!"

d)

"They were so scared."

4.

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

a)

to show how their uniforms look

b)

to show how well they work together as a team

c)

to show how different each of the girls are

d)

to speed up the story

5.

What happens between the team's first competition in Harlem and their win in New York?

a)

the team members quit the team

b)

they get new uniforms

c)

they do better at each competition

d)

they get lost in New York

6.

What does this sentence from the story mean?

"It's as if they were rowers on the same boat..."

a)

It means they are rowing a boat fast.

b)

It means they are in unison, working together.

c)

It means they don't work together well.

d)

It means they are moving really fast.

7.

The Snazzy Steppers become best friends

a)

before they join the team

b)

when the coach tells them to

c)

the first time they win a trophy

d)

after they compete together for a long time

8.

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

a)

It reads like a fairytale.

b)

It is a tall tale.

c)

The events are real.

d)

It is about several different people.

9.

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

a)

the girls like to sing

b)

Coach Rockett wanted to make the songs slow

c)

strong rhythms match the movements of jumping rope

d)

it made the girls work harder

10.

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

11.

Recite

a)

trying to do better

b)

to say a text from memory

c)

become very skilled

d)

a repeated series of movements

12.

Unison

a)

making the same movements at the same time

b)

identical

c)

one essential part of a whole

d)

trying to do better than other people or teams

13.

Identical

a)

Opposite

b)

Almost the same

c)

Exactly the same

d)

Frightened or nervous

14.

Competition

a)

frightened or nervous

b)

trying to do better than other people or teams

c)

becoming very skilled at something

d)

a repeated series of movements

15.

Mastered

a)

became very skilled at something

b)

not doing well

c)

being the boss

d)

having confusion