4th 2nd semester benchmark

Use the following passages for today's test: Passages for today's test.

For questions #1-6, use "The Stick of Truth".

What is the governor trying to figure out at the beginning of the folktale?

• what is gone

• who the thief is

• who has the longest stick

Use "The Stick of Truth".

Based on the folktale, whta is the most likely reason the govenor does not punish all the boys?

• He believes that only boy is responsible

• He believes what one boy took is important

• He believes that several of the boys are responsible

Use the following passages for today's test: Passages for today's test.

For the rest of the test, use "Raising Her Sights".

What is true about the author of "Raising Her Sights"?

• She has trained a guide dog puppy

• She thinks that guide dogs make good pets

• She thinks that guide dogs are a wast of time

For the rest of the test, use "Raising Her Sights".

Read the sentence from paragraph 2 in the box below.

"She especially needed to get use to distractions such as things on the floor, loud noises and people."

Based on the sentence, distractions are things that

• could be played with

• might interupt concentration

• things that go bump in the night

Any belief or story passed on traditionally, each culture has thier own stories.

• legend

• folktale

 A short tale that teaches a moral or lesson, often with animals as characters.

• myth

• fable

A story, usually involving gods or goddesses, that teaches a lesson or explains something in nature.

• myth

• fable

• folktale

A cultural story, involving everyday people or animals, that explains how or why something came to be in nature.

• fairy tale

• legend

• myth

A story that usually includes royalty, good vs. evil, a forest or castle, and begins "once upon a time" and ends "happily ever after." 

• myth

• legend

• fairy tale

• folklore

 A story with exaggerated details, based on a real person in history, and tells how they solve problems with their superhuman abilities. 

• tall tale

• fairy tale