WorksheetsGrade 5 Reading Mastery Test 9 - Reading
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Select the answer that means the same thing as the underlined word. The machines in the factory created such a tumult that the workers had to wear earplugs.
decade
blank visage
violent revolt
loud noise
Select the answer that means the same thing as the underlined word. Many Americans tried to abolish slavery before the Civil War.
hallow
benefit
get rid of
prompt
Select the answer that means the same thing as the underlined word. It takes a lot of ingenuity to build a robot.
tuberculosis
nopal
authorities
cleverness
Select the answer that means the same thing as the underlined words. Nothing is eternal, not even the sun.
is dedicated
is entitled
lasts forever
detracts
Read the sentences and select the correct answer. A. Purple sage grows in deserts in the western United States. B. Purple sage is a type of shrub with purple flowers. Which sentence tells what purple sage is?
sentence A
sentence B
both sentence A and sentence B
neither sentence A nor sentence B
Review the sentences and select the correct answer. A. Purple sage grows in deserts in the western United States. B. Purple sage is a type of shrub with purple flowers. What is the correct way to combine sentences A and B?
Purple sage is a type of desert shrub with purple flowers.
A type of shrub with purple flowers grows in deserts in the western United States.
Purple sage, a type of shrub with purple flowers, grows in deserts in the western United States.
Purple sage, grows in deserts in the western United States, is a type of shrub with purple flowers.
Read the sentences and select the correct answer. A. The runner crossed the finish line. B. The runner was gasping for air. What is the subject of both sentences?
the runner
air
the finish line
gasping
Review the sentences and select the correct answer.
The runner, gasping for air, crossed the finish line.
Both the runner and the finish line were gasping for air.
The runner crossed the gasping line.
The runner, crossed the finish line, was gasping for air.
What is the main idea of the passage?
Slaves’ children were sold to other plantation owners.
Slaves were bought and sold like cars.
Slaves were treated like pieces of property.
Slaves had to obey their owners.
Which detail goes on line b?
Slaves who revolted were killed.
The Northern states were called free states.
Some abolitionists thought slaves should revolt against their masters.
The word abolitionist is related to abolish.
Use the facts to fill out the form. Facts: Your name is Albert Mendoza, and you are applying for a library card. You have just become a teenager. You live at 764 Muncie Street in Mooseheart, Minnesota. Type your name, last name first.
Mendoza, Albert
Albert, Mendoza
Mendoza Albert
Albert Mendoza
How many years old are you?
13
10
15
18
In which state do you live?
Minnesota
California
Texas
Florida
Read the stanza and select the correct answer. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog, To tell one’s name the livelong June To an admiring bog! What is the rhyme scheme for this stanza?
ABAB
ABCB
AABB
ABCC
How many syllables does the second line have?
5
6
7
8
How many states belonged to the United States in 1819?
(a)
Why couldn’t Congress make any law against slavery in 1819?
There were more senators from slave states than from free states.
The number of senators from slave states equaled the number of senators from free states.
The slave states were located in the South.
Many people in Congress wanted to end slavery.
Why could Congress have made laws against slavery during the 1850s?
The Southern states had seceded from the United States.
More people in Congress opposed slavery than supported slavery.
The Northern states were called the Union.
Abraham Lincoln was president.
