The Puppy Bowl

1.Which detail from the selection supports the idea that people enjoy watching the Puppy Bowl?

• A Animals are filmed months before the Super Bowl takes place.

• B The Puppy Bowl is seen by as many as 12.4 million views every year.

• C Animal shelters throughout the country send pictures of animals.

• D The Puppy Bowl can be seen on the same day as the Super Bowl.

2.The main purpose of this selection is to -

• F compare football players with puppies

• G describe how puppies learned to play a human sport

• H persuade the reader to adopt a pet from an animal shelter

• J provide facts about a popular animal show

3.Which sentence from the selection expresses the author's opinion?

• A With their big eyes and clumsy ways, puppies are very cute to watch on a football field.

• B The cable channel decided to create a show that viewers would find interesting

• C Of course, there is a major difference between the Super Bowl and the Puppy Bowl.

• D Petfinder.com reports that the Puppy Bowl increases the overall number of adoptions nationwide.

4.What do all the Puppy Bowl participants have in common?

• F They are all the same breed.

• G They are all the same size.

• H They are all used to playing games.

• J They are all available for adoption.

5.This information helps the reader know that the word supervises in paragraph 6 means -

• A encourages

• B judges

• C determines

• D watches

6.The author organizes the information in paragraph 3 by -

• F explaining why a game played by puppies is better than a game played by humans

• G listing the reasons a cable channel created a show with puppies

• H comparing the puppy football game with a real football game

• J showing all the ways that puppy football is entertaining to watch

7.One of the main goals of the Puppy Bowl is to -

• A promote finding new homes for different kinds of pets

• B encourage the public to spend more time watching real football

• C encourage viewers to play games with their own pets

• D show that puppies can do many of the same things humans do

8.Which section contains information about how veterinarians help with the Puppy Bowl.

• F Play by Play

• G Picking Puppy Players

• H Puppy Protection

• J Everyone Wins

What is the best summary of the selection?

• A The Puppy Bowl gathers animals from across the country and films them for a show that airs on the cable channel Animal Planet. The 2013 show included puppies, kittens, hamsters, and hedgehogs playing a kind of football game.

• B The cable channel Animal Planet created the Puppy Bowl to air on the day of the Super Bowl. The show brings together animals from shelters across the country so they can participate in a football game. Viewers are encouraged to adopt the show participants.

• C When the cable channel animal Planet realized that viewers were leaving the channel to watch the super Bowl, a show was created to bring viewers back. The show is called the Puppy Bowl. It features puppies and other animals.

• D The Puppy Bowl is filmed in a studio for the cable channel Animal Planet. Puppies are filmed playing a version of football. Kittens, hamsters, and hedgehogs have also been featured on the show.

10.How do crew members make the game fair?

• F they play with chew toys of different shapes and sizes

• G each type of animal has their own team

• H puppies have an equal amount of toys to drag to the end zones

• J groups play with puppies their own size