Summarizing a Passage

Summarizing a Passage

4th Grade

25 Qs

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Summarizing a Passage

Summarizing a Passage

Assessment

Quiz

English

4th Grade

Hard

Created by

Sarah Williams

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25 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

It started when they got to the bears. Peter felt tired and his stomach hurt. He dragged himself over to see the elephants, which were eating from a stack of hay. Normally, the elephants were his favorite. Without much interest, Peter followed his classmates to the camels, which were busy swatting flies with their tails. Peter knew he should be having fun at the zoo, but he just felt terrible and all he wanted to do was lie down and rest. Even the lions and tigers did not interest him now. 
The Summary of this passage is:

Peter's favorite animals were the elephants.

The camels were swatting flies with their tails.

 It was really hot at the zoo.

Peter didn't enjoy the zoo because he felt really bad.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which best describes a summary?

a really long detailed piece of writing

the entire text told in your own words

a dumb thing that teachers make you write

the main ideas and important details of a text

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the first step to summarizing a passage?

Carefully reading through and understanding the passage so you can make a better summary.

Put the first important thing you see down without even reading the passage.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is a summary?

a short explanation of a text

a persuasive argument about a text

a movie based off of a book

a theme or universal lesson

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Right now Jason was playing right field. He really wanted to play third base. Earlier this year, coach had put him in left field and second base in a game, but never at third base. Once in practice, coach let him play third base, but he kept missing ground balls. When he did stop one, he made a bad throw to first base. Maybe if he kept practicing, Jason would be good enough to play third base. That was his dream.
The Summary of this passage is:

Jason really wanted to play third base.

Jason was the best player on his team.

Jason had trouble catching ground balls.

Jason was too lazy to practice.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When would you most likely summarize a book?

when you want to forget a book you've read

when you want to tell a friend your opinion of a book but not what it was about

when you want to tell a friend the gist or main ideas of a book

when you don't understand a vocabulary word you read in a book

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A summary should

answer the 5 W's: who, what, when, where, and why

describe the details but not the main ideas

never mention the plot of the text

always mention the age of the author

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