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- 1. Multiple Choice
What does the word jeopardy mean in the sentence below?
"Jason's reputation as the best player on the baseball team was in jeopardy after he started missing easy catches."
action
contest
danger
view
- 2. Multiple Choice
What does the word comprehension mean in the sentence below?
"For a four-year-old, Jessica's comprehension of math is amazing."
dislike
enthusiasm
understanding
weakness
- 3. Multiple Choice
What does the word abrupt mean in the sentence below?
"There was an abrupt change in my sister's mood when she learned that her story was going to be published in the magazine."
happy
noisy
sudden
upward
- 4. Multiple Choice
What does the word oracle mean in the sentence below?
"Dr. Chen, a paleontologist, was our oracle on the fossils at the natural history museum."
scholar of Greece
substitute teacher
source of knowledge
someone who guesses
- 5. Multiple Choice
What does the word exhilaration mean in the sentence below?
"Liana enjoys the exhilaration of water skiing."
challenge
excitement
fear
movement
- 6. Multiple Choice
Apple is to fruit as carrot is to
crunchy
garden
orange
vegetable
- 7. Multiple Choice
Success is to proud as failure is to
disappointed
losing
sudden
winning
- 8. Multiple Choice
Arm is to body as branch is to
leg
limb
tree
wood
- 9. Multiple Choice
Frown is to unhappy as yawn is to
happy
mouth
sleepy
smile
- 10. Multiple Choice
Shirt is to clothing as hammer is to
nail
pants
tool
wrench
- 11. Multiple Choice
At the beginning of the passage, Debbie compares her relationship with Glenna and Maureen to
an island
a triangle
carnival seats
the Three Musketeers
- 12. Multiple Choice
How are Debbie and Glenna alike?
They both enjoy eating French fries.
They both go on vacation with Maureen.
They both want to be friends with Maureen.
They both want to be friends with each other.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which phrase describes the narrator of this passage?
first-person, Debbie
third-person, Glenna
first-person, Maureen
third-person, not a story character
- 14. Multiple Choice
How does Glenna's presence change the relationship between Debbie and Maureen?
Glenna takes time with Maureen away from Debbie.
Glenna makes Maureen choose between Debbie and Glenna.
Glenna insists that she, Debbie, and Maureen be together all the time.
Glenna forces Maureen to see that Debbie is not Maureen's true friend.
- 15. Multiple Choice
When Debbie realizes Glenna and Maureen are going on vacation together, she compares herself to
a car
a river
an island
the shore
- 16. Multiple Choice
Read this sentence from the passage.
"Now I found myself holding on to good moments as if I could save them up and prove something to somebody."
How does the sentence above help develop the narrator's point of view?
It shows Maureen's increasing concern about Debbie.
It shows Maureen's increasing dependence on Glenna.
It shows Debbie's increasing friendliness toward Glenna.
It shows Debbie's increasing insecurity about Maureen.
- 17. Multiple Choice
Why does Maureen get out of her mother's car when Debbie does?
because she's angry with Glenna
because she wants to yell at Debbie
because she realizes that Debbie is upset
because she wants to escape from her mother
- 18. Multiple Choice
Read this excerpt from the passage.
"A rush of exhilaration went through me. Maybe Maureen just hadn't seen what was happening, what Glenna was doing. Maybe I just had to tell her."
How does the excerpt above help develop the narrator's point of view?
It shows that Debbie is suddenly hopeful about her friendship with Maureen.
It shows that Maureen finally understands how she has been mistreating Debbie.
It shows that Glenna is finally ready to stop spending so much time with Maureen.
It shows that Maureen and Glenna are finally ready to Debbie in their summer plans.
- 19. Multiple Choice
After Maureen and Debbie talk at the river, Maureen understands that Debbie wants
Maureen to go away.
time alone with Maureen.
to become friends with Glenna.
to go on vacation with the Flaibers.
- 20. Multiple Choice
At the end of the passage, how does Debbie feel?
hopeful that Glenna will like her, too
skeptical that Maureen ever really liked her
triumphant because Maureen chose her over Glenna
uncertain about the future of her friendship with Maureen
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