Sample questions
6 questions from reading comprehension. Choices stay unmarked.
- 1.
One way the town used the river was for...
The town of Millbrook grew beside a river that supplied drinking water, moved a historic mill, and drew tourists for canoeing. After a factory upstream closed, tests showed fewer pollutants, but runoff from new parking lots still carried oil into storm drains. Students argued that a watershed connects everyone: choices on land show up in the water. They proposed rain gardens to slow and filter runoff before it reached the river.
- Awatering farm fields
- Bcarrying boats to the mill
- Cdrinking water
- Dmaking electricity
- 2.
The writer is most likely using this silly rule to...
New rule: students must do homework at breakfast, lunch, and supper so they stay cheerful.
- Acriticize too much homework
- Bteach a recipe
- Cadvertise a restaurant
- Dgive a real daily schedule
- 3.
Where did the class visit?
Grade 8 visited a ravine near the boardwalk. Priya counted three kinds of trees, including cedar, and spotted a goat. Their teacher explained that biodiversity means many different living things sharing a habitat. Ethan wrote that if one species disappeared, others might lose food or shelter. The class agreed the ravine was worth protecting.
- Aa ravine near the boardwalk
- Bthe boardwalk only
- CPriya's classroom
- Da cedar tree only
- 4.
How does the setting change the plot?
A storm closed the bridge, so the bus stayed at school and the field trip ended.
- AThe class cancels school for the year.
- BThe bridge is a character who speaks.
- CThe storm makes the field trip longer.
- DThe storm stops the class from leaving.
- 5.
Benjamin wrote: "Please bring a labelled water bottle on Friday. We will walk to the park after lunch." What is the author's main purpose?
- Ato inform
- Bto persuade people to buy bottles
- Cto instruct how to make a map
- Dto entertain with a story
- 6.
A chapter opens with the final score, then tells how the game was played. What is the writer doing?
- Agiving a definition only
- Btelling the ending first, then showing how it happened
- Cwriting a shopping list
- Dlisting sources
