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4th Grade ELA OST Test Prep

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The time and place where a story happens.

a)

Character

b)

Theme

c)

Plot

d)

Setting

2.

The important idea or lesson repeated throughout the text.

a)

Plot

b)

Dictionary

c)

Theme

d)

Glossary

3.

To look for similiarities

a)

Contrast

b)

Central Message

c)

Cause and effect

d)

Compare

4.

To look for differences

a)

Contrast

b)

Inference

c)

Compare

d)

Main idea

5.

A person in a story

a)

setting

b)

plot

c)

central message

d)

character

6.

What does the theme of a text mean?

a)

The lesson or moral of the text.

b)

The most important idea.

c)

A summary of the text.

d)

The setting of the text.

7.

A character who struggles with an INTERNAL conflict ____.

a)

has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts

b)

has problems with another character

8.

A character who struggles with an EXTERNAL conflict ____.

a)

has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts

b)

has problems with another character or force in the story

9.

hints in a story about what may happen later

a)

irony

b)

conflict

c)

theme

d)

foreshadowing

10.

a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

symbol

d)

hyperbole

11.

sound words such as "boom" "swish"

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

hyperbole

c)

personification

d)

imagery

12.

The problem in the story is known as:

a)

theme

b)

conflict

c)

setting

d)

character

13.

Stories that are made up of imaginary characters or events:

a)

Fiction

b)

Nonfiction

14.

Stories that contain real people or events that actually happened:

a)

Fiction

b)

Nonfiction

15.

When words, symbols, themes or other parts of the story are repeated and used more than once:

a)

point of view

b)

plot

c)

simile

d)

repetition

16.

Refers to the point of the paragraph or story:

a)

setting

b)

main idea/central idea

c)

narrator

d)

point of view

17.

What is perspective?

a)

The feeling experienced by the reader

b)

the author’s attitude toward a topic or subject

c)

The time and place of a story

d)

The main struggle in a story

18.

Match the following

a)

setting

1.

time and place

b)

conflict

2.

struggle faced by the characters

c)

rising action

3.

the steady increase in tension

d)

climax

4.

the most intense point of a story. The point where the outcome of the conflict be decided

e)

resolution

5.

how the conflict is resolved

19.

Read the story.

Maple syrup comes from the sap (called xylum sap) of red, sugar, or black maple trees, often in the Canadian province of Quebec and the states of New York and Vermont. Maple trees store starch in their trunks and roots over the winter. The maple trees turn the starch into sugar which rises up through the sap when the temperatures become warmer in the spring. People harvest the maple syrup by boring holes into the trunks so they can remove and collect the sap. The sap is then heated so its water evaporates, leaving only the syrup behind to be eaten.

Maple syrup has been harvested for hundreds of years. Early explorers were taught how to harvest syrup from Native Americans who lived in Vermont and New York. Maple syrup is an important part of Vermont culture. The 2001 Vermont state quarter shows a scene of people harvesting syrup from a grove of maple trees.


Which word means the same as harvested in the sentence above?

a)

gathered

b)

tasted

c)

stolen

d)

sold

20.

What root word is found in the word prescription?

a)

scrip

b)

prescrip

c)

tion

d)

scription

21.

How is a story told in first person point of view?

a)

the narrator is in the story and uses words like I.

b)

the narrator is not in the story.

c)

the narrator sounds like the author.

d)

the plot is developed slowly.

22.

How is a story told in third person point of view?

a)

The narrator is in the story and uses words like I.

b)

The narrator is just observing the character and uses words like they.

c)

The narrator is an extra character.

d)

There is no narrator.

23.

Is this a firsthand account or a secondhand account?

a)

Firsthand Account

b)

Secondhand Account

24.

What type of account was the author personally there to experience the event.

a)

Firsthand Account

b)

Secondhand Account

25.
A description of an REAL event that is based on research and written by someone who was NOT there to witness the event is called a ______________________.
a)
Firsthand Account
b)
Secondhand Account
c)
Third Person Point of View
d)
First Person Point of View
26.
What is an example of a secondhand account?
a)
Interview
b)
Textbook
c)
Autobiography
d)
All of the above
27.
When I create a timeline of historical events, I am putting the events in ___________ order. 
a)
mercurial
b)
narcissistic
c)
venerate
d)
chronological
28.
Joe is an innovator who has the _____________ when it comes to creating inventions that work and make money. 
a)
Pandora's box
b)
Midas touch
c)
panic
d)
odyssey
29.
I went on an ______________ to India and saw many interesting places. 
a)
cereal
b)
odyssey
c)
typhoon
d)
fortune
30.
Ice-cream is a delicious frozen treat that comes in a many different colors and flavors.  Two of my favorite flavors are strawberry and chocolate.  Though both of these flavors are delicious, strawberry may contain pieces of fruit while chocolate usually will not.  Even though more chocolate ice-cream is sold across the country annually than strawberry, each flavor tastes great inside of a milk shake. 
a)
Cause and Effect
b)
Chronological
c)
Problem solution
d)
Compare/Contrast
31.
Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem
a)
Compare/Contrast
b)
Chronological
c)
Problem/Solution
d)
Sequence/Order of Importance
32.
You may not know who Mark Zuckerberg is but I bet you know about Facebook. Zuckerberg and his roommates launched Facebook from their college dormitory at Harvard. Facebook started off as just a "Harvard thing," but Zuckerberg and roommates spread it to other universities like Stanford, Dartmouth, and NYU. As Facebook grew in size and popularity, Zuckerberg took investments but resisted buyout offers. The founders maintained control and in 2012 Facebook became a publically traded company. Today Facebook is one of the world’s most popular websites and Zuckerberg is the CEO. Facebook has over one billion users and Zuckerberg is one of the 25 richest people in America. That’s not too bad for a college dropout. 
a)
Chronological
b)
Sequence/Order of Importance
c)
Cause/Effect
d)
Problem/Solution
33.
Choose the clue words that indicate cause and effect.
a)
next, after, then, first, last
b)
struggle, promise, problem, solution
c)
consequently, as a result of, so, therefore
d)
similar, common, compare, contrast
34.
Choose the clue words that indicate compare and contrast.
a)
therefore, cause, effect, consequently
b)
later, then, next, Monday
c)
similar, different, common, on the other hand
d)
possibility, struggle, hope, problem
35.
Choose the clue words that indicate problem and solution.
a)
first, last, next, after
b)
cause, as a result of, consequently
c)
compare, similar, both, alike
d)
threat, difficulty, possibility, hope