OAS 5th ELA Test Prep A (Questions 1-16)

The narrator has a third-person limited point of view. Which sentence describes how events in this story are told from this point of view?

• The Sheep explains to readers how the grocery store works.

• Alice tells the reader that the grocery store is a strange place.

• The reader knows what Humpty Dumpty and the Sheep think about Alice.

• Alice's thoughts about the strange store are shared with the reader.

Which sentence best states how Alice is different from the other characters in the story?

• Alice feels puzzled.

• Alice seems uninterested.

• Alice is proud of herself.

• Alice acts lazy.

Read this sentence from the passage.

And with that, she went off to the other end of the shop, and set the egg upright on the shelf.

What does the word upright mean in this sentence?

• facing backward

• upside down

• lying on its side

• standing straight

Which word best describes how Alice feels in this excerpt from the passage?

When she came even closer, she saw that it was Humpty Dumpty himself. "It can't be anybody else!" she said to herself. "I'm as certain of it as if his name were written all over his face!"

• frightened

• confident

• amused

• bashful

Which statement best captures the main idea of this story?

• Alice thinks it is strange that two eggs are less expensive than one egg.

• Alice pays for an egg and is surprised to find out the egg she bought was Humpty Dumpty.

• Alice found herself in a strange grocery store where the clerk was a sheep.

• Alice found Humpty Dumpty in a dark, back corner of a strange grocery store.

Which sentence best summarizes a main idea of the passage?

• "Thomas Alva Edison was born February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio."

• "He is sometimes called the "Wizard of Menlo Park" because he created two of his three greatest works there."

• "Edison also designed a system of power plants that make the electrical power and the wiring that brings it to people's homes."

• "But he knew that having a good idea was not enough."

Edison invented the phonograph, a machine that records sound. The Greek prefix phono- means "sound," or "voice," Given this definition, what is phonology the study of?

• word spelling

• word pronunciation

• word use

• word meaning

Read the quote from the passage.

Edison liked to say, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."

According to this quote, how did Edison live his life?

• He employed many people to help him with his inventions.

• He did not give up on his inventions when he had a problem.

• He became discouraged when an invention required extra work.

• He came up with ideas for inventions but did not always develop them.

Which sentence best explains the impact of Thomas Edison's work?

• "In his spare time, he took things apart to see how they worked."

• "He also improved the telegraph, making it send up to four messages at once."

• "The phonograph was the first machine that could record the sound of someone's voice and play it back."

• "The inventions made here changed the way we live even today."

Which best describes how Edison's system of power plants was related to another one of his inventions?

• Power plants gave Edison the idea for making motion pictures.

• Power plants allowed people to use light bulbs in their homes.

• Power plants made it easier to produce phonographs.

• Power plants helped people learn Morse code.