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Grade 5 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.3, RI.5.3

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What does the Ides of March actually represent on the calendar?
  1. An ominous day
  2. The 15th of March
  3. The Date of Caesar's assassination
  4. A special holiday
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.6, RL.4.6

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Which sentence summarizes the speaker's thoughts in the poem in the text?
  1. Your name is everything.
  2. Your name is what you make it.
  3. Your name carries a lot of weight.
  4. Your name can make or break you.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RL.4.2
In order to give a good summary of a story, you must make sure you include which of the following:
  1. only the most important details, your own words, what the story is mostly about
  2. as many details as possible, all of the events in the story, in order, the author's words
  3. all of the above
  4. none of the above
Grade 7 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RI.7.2
The faculty at Newtown Elementary School invites you to attend our annual Honors Dinner on Thursday, June 17, 2005, in the school cafeteria.
A meal will be served at 7:00 P.M. The cost of the meal is $7.50 per person. Please respond by June 5th with the number of family members attending. We look forward to seeing you there.
Which of the following is the best summary of the invitation?
  1. The teachers at school are having a dinner to which you are invited. It will be at 7 P.M. on June 17 and will cost $7.50 a person.
  2. Students need to decide if they want to go to the Honors Dinner with their teachers and family at Newtown Elementary School.
  3. Newtown Elementary School is going to have an Honors Dinner. The teachers hold this dinner once a year for all of the honors students.
  4. The dinner costs $7.50 a person. You need to let the teachers know by June 5 how many people you are bringing to the dinner.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RL.4.2

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Which sentence summarizes the speaker's thoughts in A Valentine?
  1. Love requires fancy notes and gifts.
  2. A simple "I love you" is good enough.
  3. Grandma looks the same as when she was young.
  4. Grandma has started to look a lot older and has white hair.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.1, RI.4.1

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Which two quotations from the article best support the answer to Part A?
  1. There had been a time when the Trojans had gone out and fought with their enemies on the plain, sometimes they had beaten them in battle, and once they had very nearly burnt their ships.
  2. We can easily believe then that Priam, King of Troy, and his people were very glad to hear that one day the Greeks had gone home.
  3. A great rattling sound was heard, and the Trojans, if they had not been very blind and foolish, might have known that there was something wrong.
  4. 'You must make a Horse of Wood to be a peace-offering to Minerva. Make it, I advise you, very great, so that the Trojans may not take it within their walls.
  5. For while Laocoön, the priest of Neptune, the same that had thrown his spear at the Horse, was sacrificing a bull on the altar of his god, two great serpents came across the sea from a certain island that was near.
  6. That night they kept a feast to the gods with great joy, not knowing that the end of their city was now close at hand.
Grade 5 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.1, RL.5.1

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Which sentence explains why Angie is visiting the farm?
  1. Angie is spending a summer at her aunt and uncle's Tennessee farm so that she can experience something different from her urban life.
  2. The first chore her aunt assigns to her is to diffuse organic grains in front of the chicken coop at 6 A.M. every morning.
  3. It doesn't take Angie long to learn that it is best to diffuse the grains quickly and get out of the way, unless she wants the chickens to come pecking her way.
  4. This provides forage for the chickens.
Grade 5 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RL.5.2

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Who is this story about?
  1. a flock of birds
  2. a family of flowers
  3. a little boy and his mother
  4. a lady who liked flowers
Grade 5 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.7, RI.5.7

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What question could you answer with this passage?
  1. Who likes to play kickball?
  2. Where do you play kickball?
  3. What are some kickball rules?
  4. How many players are on a kickball team?
Grade 5 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.7, RI.5.7

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If you wanted to know where kickball started, could you answer it with this passage?
  1. Yes
  2. No
Grade 3 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.1, RI.3.1

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What is the main reason you sneeze?
  1. to show you have a cold in your nose
  2. to force things out of your nose
  3. to stop an itch in your nose
  4. to build mucus in your nose
Grade 6 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.3, RI.6.3

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What effect did the cotton gin have on slavery?
  1. It caused slavery to decline.
  2. It caused slavery to increase.
  3. It had no effect on slavery.
  4. It caused slaves to leave.
Grade 3 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.3, RI.3.3

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Which choice best explains why onions make people cry?
  1. Onions increase your body's hormones and make you sad.
  2. Gas from the onion mixes with tears to create an acid the body tries to wash away.
  3. Tears help prevent the onion's gas from reaching the eyes.
  4. Onions combine with tears to create a salty flavor that improves the onion.
Grade 4 Summarizing CCSS: CCRA.R.1, RL.4.1

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Which lines from the poem show evidence of the answer to Part A?
  1. And, though her hair is snowy white,/Her eyes still have their maiden blue,
  2. No perfumed page nor sheet of gold/Was that first hint of love he sent,
  3. But with the secret gran'pa told---/"I love you"---gran'ma was content.
  4. If---though her head be bowed and gray---/If---though her feeble pulse be chill---
Grade 4 Summarizing

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Why did the old woman need milk from the cow?
  1. to get the cat to kill the rat
  2. to give to her pig
  3. to make butter for her bread
  4. to sell at the market
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