Vocabulary
What does the word wobbled mean in the sentence below?
The toddler wobbled toward the door.
A: ran quickly
B: crawled slowly
C: rolled unhappily
D: walked unsteadily
D: walked unsteadily
What is the effect of this passage's point of view?
A: There is no main character
B: The author is limited to describing one person.
C: The reader does not know the thoughts and feelings of any character.
D: The reader gets to know the thoughts and feelings of more than one character.
B: The author is limited to describing one person.
A: students toss pieces of paper and pencils into the school yard.
B: Louis passes out balls during recess.
C: Louis starts cleaning up junk on the playground.
D: A truck horn honks and disturbs the students.
C: Louis starts cleaning up junk on the playground.
Which of the following is a complete sentence?
A: The icy wind.
B: The wind fast.
C: The wind felt icy.
D: The wind and rain.
C: The wind felt icy.
Which of the five kingdoms includes organisms that are many celled and eat other living things?
animals
What does the word specialty mean in the sentence below?
The restaurant's specialty is making perfect pizza.
A: chef
B: favorite food
C: unique talent
D: hobby
C: unique talent
This passage is told from the point of view of
A: Louis
B: Mrs. Jewls
C: a first-person narrator
D: a third-person limited narrator
D: a third-person limited narrator
What causes Louis the most trouble in making sure that Mrs. Jewls gets her package?
A: Mrs. Mush is cooking mushrooms in the cafeteria.
B: The students cannot be interrupted while they are working.
C: Mrs. Jewls's classroom is on the top floor of Wayside School.
D: The delivery person must give the package directly to Mrs. Jewls.
C: Mrs. Jewls's classroom is on the top floor of Wayside School.
Which of the following is a complete sentence?
A: The children lunch.
B: The playing children.
C: At noon, the playing children.
D: At noon, the children ate lunch.
D: At noon, the children ate lunch.
What is 38,472.951 in word form?
thirty-eight thousand, four-hundred seventy-two and nine-hundred fifty-one thousandths
What does the word pursuit mean in the sentence below?
The athletes all tried their best in pursuit of the grand prize.
A: a medal or trophy
B: an effort to achieve
C: the end of a race
D: something that holds money
B: an effort to achieve
Which of the following is a clue that helps the reader determine the passage's point of view?
A: the use of quotation marks
B: the use of indented paragraphs
C: the use of pronouns such as I and we
D: the use of pronouns such as she and he
D: the use of pronouns such as she and he
Louis goes to Mrs. Jewls's classroom by
A: riding the elevator
B: climbing up the stairs
C: going down a long hallway
D: walking across the schoolyard
B: climbing up the stairs
Which of the following is a complete sentence?
A: Suzy and Jacob like.
B: Suzy reads Jacob likes.
C: Suzy likes reading books.
D: Suzy and Jacob might like.
C: Suzy likes reading books.
What ocean borders the United States to the east?
Atlantic Ocean
What does the word jubilant mean in the sentence below?
Allison felt jubilant when she heard the wonderful news.
A: upset
B: impatient
C: cold
D: joyful
D: joyful
What point of view has an all-knowing narrator, who can tell the thoughts and feelings of all the characters?
third-person omniscient
How does the use of irony affect the passage?
A: It makes the reader sad.
B: It adds humor and surprise.
C: It makes the passage predictable.
D: It makes the reader feel sorry for the students.
B: It adds humor and surprise.
Which of the following is a complete sentence?
A: And six more.
B: I want six more.
C: Five or six more.
D: Because of five more.
What is the name of Ms. White's cat?
Char
What does the word vigorously mean in the sentence below?
I ran vigorously after my homework, but the wind carried it away before I could grab it.
A: in a strong way
B: to give up
C: in an uneasy way
D: to move slowly
A: in a strong way
What point of view is it when a story is told by one of the characters in the story, and uses pronouns such as I and me?
The end of the passage is ironic because
A: Louis has worked so hard to deliver the computer to Mrs. Jewls.
B: Mrs. Jewls uses the computer in a way that the reader would expect.
C: The third-person narrator describes the humor of Mrs. Jewls's spelling bee.
D: The reader does not expect Mrs. Jewls to use the computer the way she does.
D: The reader does not expect Mrs. Jewls to use the computer the way she does.
Which of the following is a complete sentence?
A: Because the story unbelievable.
B: Unbelievable stories are completely.
C: The story was completely unbelievable.
D: The story was almost unbelievable because.
C: The story was completely unbelievable.
Answer my riddle:
What has hands, but cannot clap?
A clock! (watch is also accepted)