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WorksheetsQuakes! review
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Where is the setting of Quake!?
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Chicago
Pennsylvania
In the sentence "The crazed horses careened by, missing them by just a few feet." What does the word careened mean?
jumped
walked slowly by
trotted
moved quickly in an uncontrolled way
When the man said, "Holy Moses! I guess the street just opened up and swallowed it." What was he talking about?
a man
a horse
a dog
a steer
Who saved Jacob from the earthquake and the aftershock?
a random man
His sister, Sophie
his dog
the horses
What is Jacob's sisters name?
Jessica
Rosie
Alyssa
Sophie
How did Jacob's dog save him?
The dog jumped on Jacob and saved him from being hit by a car.
Protected him from an angry policeman.
Pulled him to safety when a wagon careened towards them.
The dog ran at Jacob and snapped at this fingers and pulled on his clothes to get him out of the path of a stampeding steer.
Fires started right away near the boardinghouse where Jacob and his family lived due to:
cooking fires spreading to the buildings.
electric wires getting wet and catching fire.
lanterns falling over and catching the rubble on fire,
gas mains that were damaged by the quake started fires
What two things are being compared in this simile?
"Across the building's entranceway, a row of tall columns stood as straight as soldiers, and more columns guarded its second and third stories."
tall to straight
row to columns
stood to straight
columns to soldiers
The dog saved Jacob during the earthquake by tripping him when he tried to take cover by a building that collapsed behind him. Right after the quake the dog saved Jacob a second time when a full-grown _____ stampeded down the street.
buffalo
horse
steer
goat
What is a synonym for the word frantic?
calm
panic
happy
scared
The buffalo _________ towards Jacob.
stampeded
coaxed
careened
emerged
Chase coaxed Ms. Erickson to play racing games after his reading work.
What does coaxed mean?
yelled at
asked
persuade
Mrs. Raddatz was getting very agitated when students kept talking over her.
Which word is not a synonym of agitated?
irritated
happy
annoyed
upset
The car __________ because it was very icy outside.
careened
tensed
stampeded
emerged
The debris flew across the road.
What does debris mean?
rock particles
waste/garbage
plastic
all three
What does it mean to walk aimlessly?
in a specific direction
to a specific destination
no specific destination or direction
left to right
The house was _________ after the earthquake.
unrecognizable
intact
massive
casual
The earthquake was so ________, it broke my house in a million pieces.
massive
intact
frantic
grimacing
The fence in the "Earthquakes" book was not intact.
What does intact mean?
solid
not damaged
damaged
I felt ________ after eating bad pizza.
queasy
massive
unrecognizable
intact
Ms. E made a __________ face when the class kept talking over her.
queasy
intact
grimacing
suggestive
