Lesson 1
Name
W E E K LY T E S T S 1 . 2
Date
A Package for Mrs. Jewls
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Answer Numbers 1 through 10 on your Answer Sheet. Choose the best answer for
each question.
1
What does the word specialty mean in the
sentence below?
4
The restaurant’s specialty is making
perfect pizza.
2
The baby’s crying interrupted our
conversation.
A. chef
F. changed
B. hobby
G. helped
C. favorite food
H. reviewed
D. unique talent
I. stopped
What does the word collapsed mean in the
sentence below?
5
The house of cards collapsed just as
I placed the last card on top.
A. ran quickly
B. crawled slowly
G. fell
C. rolled unhappily
H. grew
D. walked unsteadily
I. jumped
6
What does the word disturbing mean in the
sentence below?
Teddy kept disturbing us while we were
doing our homework.
A. bothering
The athletes all tried their best in
pursuit of the grand prize.
F. the end of a race
H. an effort to achieve
C. following
I. something that holds money
D. helping
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What does the word pursuit mean in the
sentence below?
G. a medal or trophy
B. entertaining
Target Vocabulary, Using Context
What does the word wobbled mean in the
sentence below?
The toddler wobbled toward the door.
F. bent
3
What does the word interrupted mean in the
sentence below?
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Name
W E E K LY T E S T S 1 . 3
Date
A Package for Mrs. Jewls
Vocabulary
7
What does the word vigorously mean in the
sentence below?
9
I ran vigorously after my homework,
but the wind carried it away before I
could grab it.
That clock has a tendency to fall
behind by a few minutes.
A. change
A. to give up
B. habit
B. to move slowly
C. rarity
C. in a strong way
D. softness
D. in an uneasy way
10
8
What does the word tendency mean in the
sentence below?
What does the word jubilant mean in the
sentence below?
What does the word urgent mean in the
sentence below?
Oscar called his sister as soon as he got
her urgent message.
Allison felt jubilant when she heard the
wonderful news.
F. friendly
F. cold
G. automatic
G. impatient
H. very important
H. joyful
I. moving too much
I. upset
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Target Vocabulary, Using Context
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Lesson 1
Name
W E E K LY T E S T S 1 . 4
Date
A Package for Mrs. Jewls
Comprehension
Comprehension
Answer Numbers 1 through 10 on your Answer Sheet. Base your answers on the
passage “A Package for Mrs. Jewls.”
1
What is the first important event in the
passage?
4
A. Louis passes out balls during recess.
F. Mrs. Mush is cooking mushrooms in the
cafeteria.
B. A truck horn honks and disturbs the
students.
G. The students cannot be interrupted while
they are working.
C. Louis starts cleaning up junk on the
playground.
H. Mrs. Jewls’s classroom is on the top floor
of Wayside School.
D. Students toss pieces of paper and pencils
into the schoolyard.
2
What causes Louis the most trouble
in making sure that Mrs. Jewls gets
her package?
I. The delivery person must give the
package directly to Mrs. Jewls.
This passage is told from the point of
view of
5
F. Louis.
G. Mrs. Jewls.
What is the effect of this passage’s point
of view?
A. There is no main character.
H. a first-person narrator.
B. The author is limited to describing one
person.
I. a third-person omniscient narrator.
C. The reader does not know the thoughts
and feelings of any character.
3
Louis goes to Mrs. Jewls’s classroom by
D. The reader gets to know the thoughts and
feelings of more than one character.
A. riding the elevator.
B. climbing up the stairs.
C. going down a long hallway.
6
D. walking across the schoolyard.
Which of the following is a clue that helps
the reader determine the passage’s point
of view?
F. the use of quotation marks
G. the use of indented paragraphs
H. the use of pronouns such as I and we
I. the use of pronouns such as she and he
Story Structure, Point of View, Irony, Anchor Text
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Lesson 1
Name
W E E K LY T E S T S 1 . 5
Date
A Package for Mrs. Jewls
Comprehension
7
How does Mrs. Jewls solve the problem of
letting Louis into the classroom?
9
A. She holds a spelling bee.
A. It makes the reader sad.
B. She opens the door for Louis herself.
B. It adds humor and surprise.
C. She chooses her best student to open the
door.
C. It makes the passage predictable.
D. It makes the reader feel sorry for the
students.
D. She flips a coin to decide who will open
the door.
10
8
How does the use of irony affect the
passage?
The end of the passage is ironic because
At the end of the passage, Mrs. Jewls thanks
Louis for
F. Louis has worked so hard to deliver the
computer to Mrs. Jewls.
F. taking good care of her package.
G. Mrs. Jewls uses the computer in a way
that the reader would expect.
H. putting the package where she wants it.
G. picking up the paper and pencils.
I. helping her teach the students about
gravity.
H. the third-person narrator describes the
humor of Mrs. Jewls’s spelling bee.
I. the reader does not expect Mrs. Jewls to
use the computer the way she does.
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____ Independent ____ Instructional
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Story Structure, Point of View, Irony, Anchor Text
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Lesson 1
Name
W E E K LY T E S T S 1 . 8
Date
A Package for Mrs. Jewls
Grammar
Grammar
Answer Numbers 1 through 10 on your Answer Sheet. Choose the best answer for
each question.
1
2
3
Which of the following is a complete
sentence?
4
Which of the following is a complete
sentence?
A. The icy wind.
F. The children lunch.
B. The wind fast.
G. The playing children.
C. The wind felt icy.
H. At noon, the playing children.
D. The wind and rain.
I. At noon, the children ate lunch.
Which of the following is a complete
sentence?
5
Which of the following is a complete
sentence?
F. Suzy and Jacob like.
A. And six more.
G. Suzy reads Jacob likes.
B. I want six more.
H. Suzy likes reading books.
C. Five or six more.
I. Suzy and Jacob might like.
D. Because of five more.
Which of the following is a complete
sentence?
6
Which of the following is a complete
sentence?
A. Because the story unbelievable.
F. Bus stop at.
B. Unbelievable stories are completely.
G. The bus stop.
C. The story was completely unbelievable.
H. The bus stopped.
D. The story was almost unbelievable
because.
I. Because bus stopped.
Complete Sentences
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Lesson 1
Name
W E E K LY T E S T S 1 . 9
Date
A Package for Mrs. Jewls
Grammar
7
8
Which of the following is a complete
sentence?
9
Which of the following is a complete
sentence?
A. Do man go and?
A. I read so that.
B. Do you know if?
B. Reading can be.
C. Who is man and?
C. I like many books.
D. Who is that man?
D. As fiction and nonfiction.
Which of the following is a complete
sentence?
10
Which of the following is a complete
sentence?
F. Bee stung the mark Syd.
F. The best the amusement park.
G. The mark on Syd’s arm was.
G. We will go to the amusement park.
H. Because the stinger in Syd’s arm.
H. Because the amusement park is the.
I. The bee stung Syd and left a mark.
I. The amusement park is the because.
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