Unit Assessment

Part I: Key Reading Skills and Key Literary Elements



1.	One way to check your understanding as you read is by
	A.	predicting.
	B.	connecting.
	C.	questioning.
	D.	activating prior knowledge.

2.	When you use what you already know about a story, character, or setting to help you understand what you read, you are
	A.	predicting
	B.	connecting
	C.	activating prior knowledge
	D.	questioning

3.	Which of the following is an example of first person point of view?
	A.	Because of his talent, his energy, and his showmanship, Satchel Paige was the most famous of the Negro league players.
	B.	We only had a one-run lead, and that was looking mighty slim. But I had an idea.
	C.	Few things in life came easily for Eleanor, but the first few years after her father’s death proved exceptionally hard.
	D.	Phelps’s s swimming meets were the most popular events of the first week of the Games.

4.	When you guess what will happen in a story based on what you know and have read, you are ____.


5.	The order in which events in a story happen is called ____ order.


6.	The voice telling the story is the ____.


7.	Which of the following is an example of connecting?
	A.	It looks as if the boy is not going to like the jacket his mother bought him.
	B.	I wonder why I don’t recognize the names of some of these baseball teams.
	C.	I completely understand how the character feels, because I also was really upset the first time I had to go to school.
	D.	Women weren’t given the right to vote until after World War I.

Part 2: Vocabulary
Choose the answer that best defines the underlined word.



8.	His actions were in open defiance of the school rules.
	A.	support
	B.	opposition
	C.	recognition
	D.	prejudice

9.	The observant teacher noticed that two students had exchanged desks.
	A.	strict
	B.	helpful
	C.	watchful
	D.	kindly

10.	He was a prominent person in politics.
	A.	unknown
	B.	weak
	C.	well known
	D.	well liked

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