RDR #10 - Believe It or Not
- 1. What is the genre for this week's selection?
A) fantasy
B) a newspaper article
C) historical fiction
D) folktale
- 2. The following sentence uses figurative language. What is the example being used? - "The photo of the bear on the front page of the newspaper caught my eye."
A) alliteration
B) simile
C) idiom
D) metaphor
- 3. What is the suffix in the word "unbelievable"?
A) lieve
B) un
C) able
D) believe
- 4. Which of the following is NOT one of the enemies that Mama Bear told her cubs to avoid?
A) porcupine
B) man
C) grizzly bear
D) skunk
- 5. What does the word "forage" mean?
A) beautiful
B) destroy
C) find
D) avoid
- 6. What caused Mama Bear to go near Monster Man's yard?
A) trees
B) bees
C) honey
D) garbage
- 7. What type of tree did Mama Bear climb to get away?
A) pine
B) oak
C) maple
D) sycamore
- 8. Why was Mama Bear so embarrassed?
A) She smelled like garbage.
B) She had never seen a man.
C) She ran from a cat.
D) She lost her temper.
- 9. What do the words in the following sentence mean? "I wanted the real scoop."
A) a shovel
B) the truth
C) rich soil
D) ice cream
- 10. Who in the passage was speaking to the reader?
A) the bear cub
B) the newspaper reporter
C) a house cat
D) a teacher
- 11. What does the underlined word below the picture mean?
A) climbs after food
B) plays in a tree
C) hunts in a tree
D) chases up a tree
- 12. What are the words listed below the picture called?
A) format
B) caption
C) figurative language
D) illustration
- 13. Which one of the following sentences is an opinion?
A) Monster Man was mean.
B) The bear climbed up the tree.
C) The reporter wrote an article for the paper.
D) Ben and Sissy took a nap.
- 14. How did the reporter solve his problem from paragraph 3?
A) He heard the story on the evening news.
B) Monster Man gave him the real story.
C) Sissy told him the story.
D) He had Ben tell him the story.
- 15. A person would most likely read this story for . . .
A) knowledge about bears
B) amusement
C) directions
D) news
- 16. The BEST new title for this story is . . .
A) "Dangerous Bears"
B) "Cats are the Best"
C) "Bears are Fraidy-Cats"
D) "The Real Scoop"
- 17. How did Mama bear know that Monster Man wasn't a porcupine or a skunk? Explain your answer in complete sentences.
- 18. What was Mama's problem in paragraph 8? How did this problem get solved? Explain your answer in complete sentences.
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