MCAS Jeopardy

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MCAS Jeopardy
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• (C1 Grammar, 10)
• Read the sentence in the box below.
• Trudy was called Americas best girl.
• Why does the word Americas begin with a capital
  letter?
• It describes Trudy.
• It names an event.
• It is a proper noun.
• It is a possessive noun.

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• (C1 Grammar -20)
• Read the sentence below.
• Each mouthpart has a sharp, hollow fang on the
  end.
• The words sharp and hollow are examples of
• nouns.
• verbs
• adverbs
• adjectives

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• (C1 Grammar -30)
• Read the sentence from the fable in the box
  below.
• The ant stared at the grain disbelievingly.
• What is the subject of the sentence?
• ant
• shared
• grain
• disbelievingly

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• (C1 Grammar - 40)
• Read these lines from the passage in the box
  below.
• Mama was so beautiful then
• small shoulders inside her white dress,
• What part of speech are the words small and
  white?
• adjectives
• adverb
• nouns
• verbs

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• (C1 Grammar -50)
• Read the paragraph below.
• Fielder plans each trip with great care and love,
  and scouts out each location so that he can
  always take hisbest shots. plans each trip with
  great care and love, and scouts out each location
  so that he can always take his best shots.
• In the sentence, which part of speech is the word
  scouts?
• Adjective
• Adverb
• Noun
• Verb

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• (C2 Genre-10)
• Read the lines from the play below.
• DMITRI Good? (Reaches for spoon)
• SASHA (Keeping spoon away from him) Oh, so
  good!
• What is the purpose of the phrases in
  parentheses?
• to describe the setting of the play
• to show the lines a narrator speaks
• to tell how the characters should act
• to give new information to the audience

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• (C2 Genre-20)
• Read the paragraph below.
• Blue whales have long been a source of
  fascination for scientists. They are the largest
  group of animals to ever live on the earth. Blue
  whales grow to be about 80 feet long.
• How does the reader know this article is
  nonfiction?
• The article has factual information.
• The article uses real animals to tell a story.
• The article is a story about nature.
• The article is about scientists

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(C2 Genre-30) Read the paragraph below. In
1896, a young man from Greece named Spiridon
Louis ran one of the most exciting footraces
ever. Not much is known about Spiridons early
life. He was born in 1873 in a small house in
the rocky hills above Athens. Why is the passage
an example of biography? (a) It describes the
character. (b) It is about the life of another
person. ( c) It is about the authors life. (d)
It is about a man who lived in a land faraway.
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(C2 Genre-40) Read the first two paragraphs of
the story below. The Seedby Carolyn Han 1  
LONG, LONG AGO in China, there lived a wise
emperor whose once-dark braid had turned the
color of new-fallen snow. He was old, and it was
time for him to choose a successor. Although he
had many sons and grandsons to choose from, the
emperor felt that power and wealth had made his
heirs lazy. He wanted to appointsomeone outside
the family. 2       Loud drums called a
gathering of young men to the temple at the top
of the mountain. When they arrived, the emperor,
seated on a magnificent throne, announced, "It is
time to choose the next emperor.
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What is a family? Who is in your family? Does
everyone in your family look the same? Musical
instruments have families, too. And, just as in
your family, some instruments in the same family
look alike but are not exactly the same.
(C2 Genre-50) Read the first paragraph of the
article. Do you marvel at how movie dogs get
their daring rescue scenes just right? Ever
wonder how TV dogs know just when to nuzzle up to
their "owners"? Not just any old dog can show up
on a set and become a star. Lots of hard work
goes on behind the scenes!
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• Which of the following best describes the story?
• legend
• mystery
• fairy tale
• realistic fiction

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• (C3 Vocab-10)
• Read the sentence below.
• He made the experiment harder.
• What does the suffix -er in harder mean?
• full
• like
• most
• more

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• (C3 Vocab-20)
• Read the sentence from paragraph 11 below.
• There was no other way to run they had us
  encircled.
• What does encircled mean?
• crowded
• fooled
• protected
• surrounded

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• (C3Vocab-30)
• Read the sentence from paragraph 11 in the box
  below.
• As the ice expands, the rock fractures.
• Which of the following words could replace the
  word fractures?
• cools
• (b) grows
• (c) breaks
• (d) strengthens

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• (C3Vocab-40)
• Read paragraph 21 in the box below.
• Alexander will miss me," she thought. But she
  knew that he would get over it, if he had plenty
  to eat. "And I will miss
• them all," she thought. But she knew that she
  would get
• over it, because there were adventures waiting,
  and the
• wind was blowing, and she was on the wing.
• Paragraph 21 states that Jane was on the wing.
  What does on the wing most likely mean?
• Jane is sad.
• Jane is late.
• Jane is flying.
• Jane is hurrying.

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• (C3Vocab, 50)
• Read the sentence from the article in the box
  below.
• In the past, dentists extracted decaying teeth,
  but now only the affected parts are removed and
  the hole is filled with hard artificial
  materials.
• What word in the sentence helps the reader
  understand the word extracted?
• past
• parts
• removed
• filled

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• (C4 Fig. Lang, 10)
• Read the sentence from Louisa May Alcott's
  journal entry from 1845 in the box below.
• The moss was like velvet, and as I ran under the
  arches of yellow and red leaves I sang for joy,
  my heart was so bright and the world so
  beautiful.
• The phrase the moss was like velvet appeals to
  which of the following senses?
• sound
• taste
• smell
• touch

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• (C4 Fig. Lang, 20)
• Read the sentence below from the article.
• Fans who visit the ballpark regularly know when
  to expect Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond to come
  blasting out of the speakers (the middle of the
  eighth inning).
• Why does the author use the word "blasting" in
  the sentence?
• to show how loud the song is
• to show how popular the song is
• to show how long the song plays
• to show how often the song plays

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• (C4 Lang Style, 30)
• Read the lines from the poem "Some People"the
  box below.
• Your thoughts begin to shrivel up    Like leaves
  all brown and dried!
• What is being compared in the lines above?
• like and all
• brown and dried
• shrivel and dried
• thoughts and leaves

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(C 4 Fig. Lang,40) Read the beginning of the
passage in the box below. 1 It is a gold-plated
medal no bigger than a postagestamp. Inscribed
on the back are the words "50-YARD
DASHCHAMPION.  The medal came from the only
official race I ever participated in. There were
many unofficial ones...       "Race you to the
store!"      "Last one in's a monkey!"  
     "Ready...Set...Go!"   Like kids the world
over, we raced to determine the fastest. In the
early 1950s on the 800 block of George Street in
the West End of Norristown, Pennsylvania, that
was me. I was usually the winner, and never the
monkey.
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• Based on the passage, what does the author mean
  when he says he was "never the monkey"?
• He was good at running.
• He acted quiet and calm.
• He always obeyed his parents.
• He liked playing and climbing.

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(C4 Fig. Lang, 50) Read the sentence from
paragraph 20 in the box below. It was as if it
were midnight and the moon were shining on her
fur, frosting it. The purpose of the comparison
in the sentence is to describe the fur's (a)
color.   (b) length.   (c) softness.   (d)
thickness.
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(C5 Main Idea, 10) Read the paragraph from the
article. Cats dont like to take baths. They do
keep themselves very clean, however. At least
once each day cats lick their paws. Then they
wash their faces and heads with their paws. Cats
use their tongues to lick the rest of their
bodies clean.
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• The main idea of the paragraph is
• Why cats like baths
• How cats clean themselves
• Which animals are the cleanest
• Cats dont like to take baths

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(C5 Main Idea, 20) Read paragraph 1 from the
passage in the box below. A boy named Jacobs
liked pebbles and pretty stones. He liked to pick
them up and keep them. One day he found some
glassy pebbles along a river. These pebbles
turned out to be diamonds. That is how the famous
diamond mines of Africa were discovered.
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• The story mainly tells
• Why diamonds are pretty
• What diamonds look like
• How a boy discovered diamond mines
• Diamonds look like glass

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(C5 Main Idea, 30) Read the paragraph from the
article in the box below. Some birds user their
bills like tweezers for picking up seeds. Others,
like woodpeckers, use their bills to drill into
trees to reach insects. Still others, like
swallows, use their open bills to scoop up
insects. One bird uses its bill like a hammer.
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• The main idea of this passage is
• Why woodpeckers drill
• What bills are like
• All birds have bills
• How birds use their bills

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(C5 Main Idea, 40) Read the paragraph from the
folktale below. There is an old saying that the
longest night ends in light. This means that
things do not remain bad or hopeless forever.
There are times when it may seen that way. When
things are going badly, time almost stands still.
Yet there is always a new day.
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• What is the lesson this fable teaches?
• Some nights are long
• Bad times will end
• People wait for the night
• The sun rises each morning

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(C5 Main Idea, 50) Read the poem in the box
below. Some PeopleIsn't it strange some people
make     You feel so tired inside,Your thoughts
begin to shrivel up     Like leaves all brown
and dried!But when you're with some other
ones,     It's stranger still to findYour
thoughts as thick as fireflies     All shiny in
your mind!Rachel Field
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• What is the theme of the poem?
• People talk too much
• People are funny all the time
• People can make us feel like crying by ourselves
• People have different effects on our feelings and
  moods