7th Grade FSA Prep

Bullies

100

Question 1:

What is the most likely reason the author included paragraph 2 in Passage 1?

A. to help readers understand bullies

200

Question 4:

Why is Eliza important to the plot of Passage 2?

D. Her actions introduce the conflict between Jane and John.

300

Question 2:

What idea is suggested by the information about bullies in paragraph 2 of Passage 1?

C. Bullies are often victims of bullying themselves.

400

Question 5 from Passage 2:

“He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.” (paragraph 13)

What does the author’s choice of words suggest about John?

B. disgust

500

Question 3:

Which sentence in Passage 1 supports the author’s argument that a person can take action to end bullying?

C. “Learn to say no loudly and then walk away from the situation.” (paragraph 5)

Bullies & Edit p. 107

100

Question 10 from Bullies: 

How do Passages 1 and 3 differ in the way they suggest people respond to bullies?

B. Passage 1 is about what an individual can do, and Passage 3 is about what a group can do.

200

Question 1 Page 107:

Smiling in my direction, I saw my friends giving me thumbs-up from their seats.

A. my friends gave me thumbs-up from their seats

300

Question 3 Page 107:

As I was getting ready for my final dismount. Was a little tentative, but I stuck it!

C. dismount, I was a little tentative, butI stuck it

400

Question 4 Page 107:

When I looked at the scoreboard, I was in first place, but there were two more experienced tough competitors who still had to complete their routines.

C. experienced, tough competitors

500

Question 2 Page 107:

 I waited nervously, I thought back over my performance.

D. correct as is  

Bullies

100

Question 6 Part A: 

Answer Part A, then the next person will answer Part B in Bullies 400.

Part A: What is the theme of Passage 2?

B. power and control

200

Question 9:

The author of Passage 1 focuses on direct responses to a bully. 

What does the author of Passage 3 focus on?

C. drawing awareness to bullying and proposing ways to prevent it

300

Question 7:

Which idea is developed in paragraph 16 of Passage 3?

C. that bullying is a widespread problem

400

Question 6 Part B from Bullies 100:

Part B: Which sentence from Passage 2 provides evidence for the answer to Part A?

C. “John . . . bullied and punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually: every nerve I had feared him.. . .” (paragraph 14)

500

Question 8:

Which word helps readers understand the meaning for the word "apprised" from paragraph 9? 

“First, make sure you are 

A. thoroughly 

B. informed by 

C. becoming clearly apprised about what 

D. bullying is.”

B. informed by

Edit P. 109

100

Question 2 Page 109

But now, sitting on the porch, a single breeze whispered through the dry, restless grass.

B. as Anna sat on the porch, a single breeze whispered through

200

Question 4 Page 109:

She and her brother danced joyfully. Beneath the rain.

A. danced joyfully beneath the rain

300

Question 1 Page 109:

As daylight broke over the horizon, bright light scattered across the wide distant fields.

A. wide, distant fields

400

Question 3 Page 109

The chains on the porch swing began to rattle vilently.

C. violently

500

Question 5 Page 109:

The breeze was important to Anna it would always remind her that difficult times don’t last forever.

A. to Anna because it would always remind her