Have an account?
Skip to Content
Build your own quiz
Suggestions for you
11 questions
Show Answers
See Preview
- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the best question to ask yourself when you are trying to find the main idea?
Who is the main character?
What is one important detail?
What is the author's main point/message in this text?
What is the event being discussed in the text?
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is the topic in the following paragraph?
Shanna had never seen so many fish before. She looked around at the huge tanks and could see hundreds of fish, crabs, shrimp, and all other amazing creatures completely surrounding her. She never thought she could feel like she was completely underwater, yet still be completely dry.
The ocean
The aquarium
The mall
The park
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is the main idea of the following paragraph?
Floods can cause tremendous damage. They can ruin houses, roads and buildings. Floods can take down trees and cause mudslides. It often leaves mud, sand and debris behind. It can take months to clean up after a flood.
Floods take months to clean up
Floods can cause landslides
Floods can cause tremendous damage
- 4. Multiple Choice
The topic of a text can often be found in the title or in the opening paragraph of the text.
True
False
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is the main idea of the following paragraph?
When we think of seaweed, we usually picture brown or green plants a foot or so in length. Seaweeds are also of other colors. Some are red. Some kinds grow to lengths of a hundred feet! These form giant seaweed forests, where many kinds of fish take shelter.
Why some seaweed grows so large
Why seaweed is red
What seaweed is like
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which sentence is a key/supporting detail that you should get enough sleep each night?
Dark rooms are best for sleeping
Seven to nine hours of sleep each night keeps you refreshed the next day
Many people sleep longer during the weekends
Caffeine keeps some people awake at night
- 7. Multiple Choice
A key detail is defined as the "who" or "what" a text is about.
True
False
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the main idea of the following paragraph?
Sharks can lose up to 30,000 teeth in their lifetime. Sharks have teeth arranged in rows inside their mouths. These teeth do not have roots like human teeth do, so they fall out easily. When a shark takes a powerful bite into its food, several teeth are lost. When these teeth are lost, new ones push forward from the back rows to replace them. Luckily, sharks continually grow new teeth to replace the thousands they lose.
Sharks lose many teeth over the course of their lifetime
Shark teeth are very different from human teeth
Sharks are carnivorous predators
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is the main idea of the following paragraph?
Animals and plants living in deserts have adaptations which enable them to survive there. Desert plants have little or no leaves where moisture can escape. They also have deep roots to soak up water underground. Many desert animals are nocturnal. They burrow in the soil or sand during the hottest part of the day and are active at night when it is cooler. Desert animals also survive by getting the water they need from desert plants.
It rains very little in the desert
Many different types of animals live in the desert
Plants/animals in the desert have unique ways of surviving the heat and lack of rainfall
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which sentence is a supporting detail that recycling is important?
There are many landfills available for waste
You should clean all items before recycling them
Recycling paper saves trees from being cut down
Separate your paper, cans, and glass jars before recycling them
- 11. Multiple Choice
Read the following paragraph:
Winter provides the opportunity for many outdoor activities. Many people enjoy ice skating on a pond. Swimming in the pond during the Summer can be fun, also. Skiing can be a thrilling experience, too. After a new snowfall, you can even build a snowman.
Which of the following is NOT a key detail that supports the text's main idea?
Swimming in the pond during the Summer can be fun, also
Many people enjoy ice skating on a pond
Skiing can be a thrilling experience, too
After a new snowfall, you can even build a snowman
- Answer choicesTagsAnswer choicesTags