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