Understanding Main Ideas, Subjects, and Themes

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Understanding Main Ideas, Subjects, and Themes

• Day 3
• Read each passage and then answer the questions
  that follow.
• CIM-R3

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There was once a man who had five sons who were
always bickering. He decided to teach them a
lesson. He tied five sticks together in a
bundle. Then he challenged his sons to break the
bundle of sticks. Each one tried to break the
bundle of sticks over his knee and declared that
is could not be done.Then the father untied the
bundle, gave one stick to each son, and told them
to break the sticks. The sticks snapped like
matches.You see, said the father when a man
stands alone, he can be broken easily, but when
he is united with others, nothing can break him.
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7. Which statement best describes what this story
is mostly about?

• A There is always conflict among brothers.
• B Sticks tied in a bundle are hard to break.
• C Some brothers like to break sticks.
• D A man teaches his sons that there is strength
  in unity.

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8. Which of the following sayings, or proverbs,
best expresses the theme of this story?

• A Boys will be boys.
• B Two heads are better than one.
• C United we stand divided we fall.
• D Dont put all your eggs in one basket.

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Probability is the fascinating branch of
mathematics that deals with chance. An example of
a problem in probability is the question What is
the probability of getting a head with one flip
of a dime? There are two equal possibilities,
so the probability is one half, or .5. Another
example is the questionIf a man was born in
January, what is the probability that he was born
on January 13? Since there are 31 days in
January, the probability would be in 31, or 1/31.
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9. Which would be the best title for this
paragraph?

• A What Is Probability?
• B How to Win at Coin Tossing
• C Guessing a Persons Birthday
• D Bginning Mathematics

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10. What is this selection mostly about?

• A the probabilities of coin tosses
• B birthdays
• C games of chance
• D what probability means

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