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