FAST Practice Test Part A Part B Questions

Test Scenario: The answer to Part A of a test question is given below. Answer Part B.

Part A: Which theme is developed in the passage?

Answer: Continue to believe in dreams.

Part B: Which sentence from the passage supports the theme in Part A?

• "The first few years of her life had been spent doing the usual things like learning words and burping."

• "When she was nine, she became best friends with Jezelle and they have been friends ever since."

• "To her dismay, she could not find many of the creatures that were in the journal."

• "She knew that one day she would search for it and she could not wait for the day when she would begin."

Test Scenario: The answer to Part A of a test question is given below. Answer Part B.

Part A: What is the purpose of the section titled "To Sleep, Perchance to...Understand You're Dreaming?"

Answer: To emphasize the limits of current information about animal sleep

Part B: Which sentence from the section supports the answer in Part A?

• "People do not often realize they are dreaming while asleep, but it usually becomes clear as soon as we wake up."

• "Do cats recognize their dreams of stalking prey as dreams and not reality?"

• "We can say with reasonable certainty that other animals dream."

• "But how animals experience those dreams is a mystery--for now."

Test Scenario: The answer to Part A of a test question is given below. Answer Part B.

Part A: What can the reader infer from the poem about how the brook feels?

Answer: The brook sees itself as enduring while people change.

Part B: Which lines from the poem support the answer in Part A?

• I steal by lawns and grassy plots, / I slide by hazel covers; (lines 1-2)

• I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance. / Among my skimming swallows; (lines 5-6)

• I murmur under moon and stars / In brambly wildernesses; (lines 9-10)

• For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever. (lines 15-16)

Test Scenario: The answer to Part A of a test question is given below. Answer Part B.

Part A: Based on the information in the passage, what inference can be made about Cleopatra?

Answer: She befriended people in order to maintain control.

Part B: Which sentence(s) support the answer in Part A?

• "In 51 BC, when her father died, Cleopatra and her younger brother inherited the throne."

• "She was forced to flee to Syria, where she put together her own army and planned her return."

• "Cleopatra knew she needed Caesar's support to win back her power and to preserve Egypt's independence. She introduced herself, and soon the two became close."

• "Young Caesarion became Cleopatra's co-ruler after both Caesar and Ptolemy XIV died. He was known as Ptolemy XV."

Test Scenario: The answer to Part A of a test question is given below. Answer Part B. *You do not need the text to answer the question.

Part A: What can the reader infer about Ellie in the passage?

Answer: Ellie thinks Jerome will lose because he is not measuring things carefully the way she does.

Part B: Which sentence supports the answer in Part A?

• "'I just wish I could make a main course instead of having to bake something,' Jerome said."

• "When Jerome arrived, he took the bowl Ellie meant to use for her flour mixture."

• "'Aren't you worried that you'll put in the wrong amount?' Ellie asked."

• "She was busy putting her spices back in order again."

Test Scenario: The answer to Part A of a test question is given below. Answer Part B.

Part A: Which word best describes Chris's attitude toward the four-leaf clover in the story?

Answer: Hopeful

Part B: Which sentence supports the answer in Part A?

• "He pulled out a carefully folded napkin, opened it up, and held it out to Jessie."

• "Chris carefully refolded the napkin around the clover, placed the napkin back in the pocket, and zipped the pocket shut."

• "He hoped he'd have good luck again and Grandma would have a fresh batch of gingerbread cookies cooling on the rack."

• "Chris tugged at his sister's arm. 'Do you know why we stopped?'"

Test Scenario: The answer to Part A of a test question is given below. Answer Part B.

Part A: How is the author's purpose developed in the passage?

Answer: The author presents Abiaka (Sam Jones) as a notable leader.

Part B: Which underlined phrase supports the answer in Part A?

"When the fighting eventually ended, Abiaka (Sam Jones) was the only Seminole leader who remained in Florida, along with a few hundred others from his tribe. These people lived in remote wilderness areas in the Everglades and survived by fishing, hunting, and trapping. They traded with others at frontier outposts. Many of the descendants of these resistors still live in Florida today. Sam Jones is honored by a statue at the front of the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum on Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation. The statue depicts him helping a woman and child to safety."

• remained in Florida

• remote wilderness areas

• survived by fishing, hunting, and trapping

• honored by a statue

Test Scenario: The answer to Part A of a test question is given below. Answer Part B.

Part A: What can the reader infer about Rawlings?

Answer: She loved writing from an early age.

Part B: Which sentence supports the answer in Part A?

• "She was born in Washington, D.C., in 1896, spent much of her childhood in Wisconsin, and died in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1953."

• "She was first published in The Washington Post at age 11, and she won a national writing contest for McCall's magazine when she was 16."

• "Early in her career, she worked as a newspaper reporter while pursuing her dream of writing fiction."

• "Perhaps her most famous book is The Yearling, about a boy who adopts a fawn, which was also made into a movie."

Test Scenario: The answer to Part A of a test question is given below. Answer Part B.

Part A: What does the word treacherous mean as it is used in the passage?

Answer: Dangerous

Part B: Which underline phrase best supports the answer in Part A?

"He sat down and looked at the treacherous snow-covered slope. It was manifestly impossible for him to make it [down] with a whole body, and he did not particularly relish arriving at the bottom in [a] shattered condition..."

• sat down and looked

• snow-covered slope

• impossible for him to make it [down] with a whole body

• he did not particularly relish arriving at the bottom

Test Scenario: The answer to Part A of a test question is given below. Answer Part B.

Part A: What inference can be made about the protagonist in the passage?

Answer: He knows to stop and consider alternatives before acting.

Part B: Which sentence supports the answer in Part A?

• "He studied the cliff thoroughly before attempting it."

• "A slip at that point meant a plunge over the edge and a twenty-foot fall to the ice."

• "Time and time again he ventured upon the slide, and time and time again he was balked when he came to the grasses."

• "He must be doing something to keep his blood circulating."