Wild Card
How can the reader determine that a selection is a play?
A. It has several characters.
B. It has stage directions.
C. It has third-person narration.
D. It has dialogue.
B. It has stage directions.
AND
D. It has dialogue.
CODY: [Sitting on the floor playing catch with himself.] I don"t want to make my bed. I want to go outside!
CARA: [Sitting on Cody"s messy bed, reading a book.] So do I, but Mom and Dad said we can"t go anywhere until you"ve done it. So hurry up or we"ll never get to have a game of catch today.
A. She wants to eat pizza with Cody.
B. She wants to make her mom happy.
C. She wants to find her book.
D. She wants to play outside with Cody.
D. She wants to play outside with Cody.
Then the Sky King called a gathering of the animals, "Who will deliver this gift to the Moon for me?" Well, the creatures who walked the Earth, the fox and the cow and the bear, all turned away, and so did the fish in the sea. They couldn't possibly fly to the moon! That left only the birds, but the birds, too, were reluctant .
In paragraph 5, the word reluctant must mean that the birds —
A. did not want to go to the moon
B. were angry at the Sky King
C. did not like the moon
D. thought the gift was a bad idea
A. did not want to go to the moon
No one knows what the Sky King's plan was when he sent the bat to carry darkness to the moon. Maybe he wanted to give her a chance to rest, and let her take darkness out of the basket whenever she wanted. Maybe he was giving it to her so she could hide it, and know nothing would ever make her dark. But whatever the Sky King's plans had been for the basket of darkness, it was too late. Darkness was spilled, and moon was shadowed, and the animals saw the stars in the sky for the first time.
Why did the Sky King want only the moon to remove the lid?
A. He wanted to surprise the moon.
B. He wanted to hide the moon.
C. The moon had asked him for darkness.
D. His purpose was never clear.
D. His purpose was never clear.
What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?
C. Insert a comma after connections
D. No change should be made.
Some are soothing and steady
Pit pat pit pat pit pat pit pat
Comforting as a bowl of spaghetti
Silky, like a furry, friendly cat
B. It describes a rainstorm by comparing it to spaghetti.
C. It describes a rainstorm by comparing it to a cat.
D. It reinforces that some storms are soothing and steady.
B. To describe the children’s kites that the wind has blown out of their hands
C. To explain that the speaker likes to look out the window
D. To tell the reader about magical trees that dance
I don"t want to. In order to make my bed, I have to unearth it first! All of my action figures have to be put away.
A. To dig out
B. To put away
C. To inspect thoroughly
D. To do something quickly
A. To dig out
Some are soothing and steady
Pit pat pit pat pit pat pit pat
Comforting as a bowl of spaghetti
Silky, like a furry, friendly cat
Others make us tremble and shake
Boom, crash, boom, crash
They make the ground quake
We watch their anger flash
Some have gusty winds
Which blow like bellows
Whooooo whooooo whooooo
Making trees dance
B. Storms are loud and frightening.
C. Storms can be different.
D. Storms can either make you happy or ruin your day.
C. Storms can be different.
The second paragraph (sentences 9-15) contains a sentence that doesn’t support the ideas being presented. Which sentence should Scott delete from this paragraph?
(9) There are three things to consider when dealing with calendars of time. (10) A day is the amount of time it takes our spinning planet to make one complete turn, or rotation, on its axis. (11) A month measures about how much time passes from one full moon to the next. (12) One year is considered a single revolution around the sun. (13) A year is equal to 365 days. (14) There is an exception. (15) Approximately every four years, an additional day is added to the calendar in February. (16) My friend was born on February 29th in a leap year.
(16) My friend was born on February 29th in a leap year.
Why does the author include the stage direction?
MOM: [From outside the bedroom door.] That"s right, Cody. Moms do!
A. To show that Cody and Cara's mom knows everything
B. To show that Cody and Cara's mom is listening to them
C. To show that Cody and Cara are missing pizza for lunch
D. To show that Cody and Cara are inside the bedroom
B. To show that Cody and Cara's mom is listening to them
What change, if any, should be made to the sentence?
These measurements of time are based on the movements of Earth and other objects in the solar system.
D. No change should be made.
Cody, stop delaying and get out from under there.
A. Putting off
B. Putting down
C. Doing something else
D. Doing something wrongly
A. Putting off
Which transition could BEST be added to combine the sentences?
Ancient people made connections between the seasons and the movement of the sun and the moon. Hunters tried to track the months by poking holes in branches.
A. So
B. Therefore
C. Eventually
D. In other words,
C. Eventually
What is the correct way to combine sentences?
A year is equal to 365 days. There is an exception.