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General Questions
PSSA Questions
100
What is the genre of the passage?
narrative nonfiction
100
Who invented electric lights?
Thomas Edison
100
Fact or Opinion: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Fact
100
Is the story fiction or nonfiction?
nonfiction
100
What type of figurative language compares two things and uses like or as?
simile
200
How do you know the passage in nonfiction?
Because it gives facts and details about a topic.
200
What did Josephine Cochran invent?
the dishwasher
200
Why did the author write the passage. Choose one. 1. to persuade readers which invention is best 2. to give advice about becoming an inventor 3. to tell a funny story about inventors 4. to describe one special invention
number 2
200
What is the author's purpose?
to give information and facts about inventors
200
What type of figurative language compares two things but does not use like or as?
metaphor
300
Name one invention of Benjamin Franklin.
swim paddles, lightning rod, stove, fireplace damper, library stepstool, odometer or bifocal glasses
300
What is the most likely reason why the people laughed at the steamboat?
Because it looked strange and unusual.
300
Identify the word on p. 424 which means "in a safe way."
safely
300
Which word on page 425 means "able to be moved"?
movable
300
What type of figurative language is the following sentence: "My dad growls like a bear in the morning."
simile
400
Who invented frozen food?
Clarence Birdseye
400
Fact or Opinion: Everyone mocked Robert Fulton's steam boat, calling it "Fulton's Folly" and a "floating sawmill caught on fire."
opinion
400
Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the ___.
airplane
400
Look at the sentence on page 417 which says, "He probably needed them!" Is this a fact or opinion?
opinion
400
What type of figurative language is the following sentence: "The sky was a blazing fire of color."
metaphor
500
Fact or Opinion: So in 1831, Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical reaper.
Fact
500
Why does the author compare an inventor to a bulldog?
Because you must be determined or stubborn likea bulldog to be an inventor.
500
How did Alfred Nobel's invention frighten people?
He invented dynamite which could kill people.
500
How are all the inventors in the selection alike?
They all provide something people need.
500
Find an example of personification on page 420.
"Newspapers laughed.."