WorksheetsUnit 5 End of Unit Assessment
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 23mins
1. Why did the author write this passage?
a. to explain how people traveled to California long ago
b. to try to talk people into taking a boat to California
c. to tell a story about people who found gold in California
d. to describe the places where people looked for gold in California
2. Which detail from the passage helps you answer question #1?
a. "Someone had found gold in California!"
b. "Within a year, thousands of people had left their homes and jobs."
c. "Each way of traveling to California was difficult."
d. "the people were still far from gold fields"
3. Why did people leave their homes and go to California in 1849?
a. They could not find work.
b. They wanted to buy land.
c. They liked to go on trips.
d. They hoped to get rich.
4. Which detail from the passage helps you answer question 3?
a. "everyone wanted to move west and find gold"
b. "people had left their homes and jobs"
c. "Many people crossed over land."
d. "But most traveled as groups in covered wagons."
5. How was the shortcut like the wagon trip?
a. Both trips were mostly by water.
b. On both trips, people crossed land.
C. Both trips were easy ways of traveling.
D. On both trips, people traveled alone.
6. "Sometimes the ships ran out of food and water." What does "ran out of" mean?
a. quickly left
b. found by chance
c. lost by mistake
d. had no more
7. "There was also another way to California. It was a shortcut." What does the word "shortcut" mean?
a. a way that is not as long
b. a gold rush
c. a trip in a covered wagon
d. a nearby place
8. Which detail from the passage provides the best clue to the meaning of "shortcut"?
a. "Now everyone wanted to move west"
b. "But most traveled as groups in covered wagons."
c. "People did not have to travel so far."
d. "Some who did reach California found gold."
9. "The trip was shorter, but it was still very difficult." What does the word "difficult" mean?
a. wet
b. hard
c. fun
d. long
10. Which detail from the passage gives a clue to the meaning of "difficult"?
a. "The Gold Rush of 1849 begun."
b. "The ships sailed around South America."
c. "people were still far from the gold fields"
d. "The walk across the land was not easy."
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