Assessment Test
Name: __________________________________
1. A plane is flying at an altitude of 5987 feet. It then increases its altitude by 2398 feet. What
is the plane’s new altitude?
a) 3589
b) 8385
c) 3699
d) 8285
2. Two cars start driving the same direction from the same point in a straight line. After 10
hours, the first car has traveled 632 miles and the second car has traveled 441 miles. How far
apart are the cars?
a) 191 miles
b) 1073 miles
c) 182 miles
d) 218 miles
3. Find the product of 43 and 18.
a) 61
b) 774
c) 126
d) 387
4. Chris Howe works at Cub Foods. During one week he worked 3.5 hours, 7.4 hours and 5
hours. How many hours did he work altogether that week?
a) 11.4 hours
b) 10.4 hours
c) 15.9 hours
d) 14.9 hours
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5. David went to a store and bought $12.72 worth of merchandise. He paid with a 20-dollar
bill. How much change does David get back?
a) $32.72
b) $7.28
c) $17.28
d) $5.28
6. Consider the real number 2.718359. The digit 3 is in the __________ place.
a) tenths
b) thousandths
c) hundredths
d) ten thousandths
7. A recipe calls for 3 cups of flour. If you only have a 1/2-cup to measure the flour, how many
1/2-cups will you need for the recipe?
a) 6
b) 1 1/2
c) 5
d) 3 1/2
8. 25% of 1595 is approximately?
a) 64
b) 6,400
c) 400
d) 40,000
9. A shirt costs $13.00 at a local store. If the sales tax on the shirt is 6%, how much money is
spent to purchase the shirt?
a) $13.06
b) $13.78
c) $19.00
d) $13.60
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10. Find the product: 2/3 x 1/5
a) 3/8
b) 2/15
c) 3/15
d) 2/8
11. Renee’s paycheck stub showed wages of $375.89 at the regular rate of pay and $36.10 at
the overtime rate. What were her total wages?
a) $411.99
b) $401.99
c) $339.79
d) $311.99
12. Find the product: 0.3×0.2
a) 6
b) 0.6
c) 0.06
d) 0.05
13. If a car can go 300 miles on 12 gallons, how far can it go on 1 gallon?
a) 24 miles
b) 288 miles
c) 3600 miles
d) 25 miles
Find the opposite of the underlined word.
14. Pamper the child
a) please
b). scold
c). coddle
d). diaper
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15. Dire consequences
a) involved
b) dreadful
c) unimportant
d) humiliating
Choose the word that best completes the sentence
16. The driver needs to know the road, or _____ may become lost.
a) you
b) she
c) they
d) her
17. The performance went _____ well until one of the cast missed a cue.
a) real
b) almost
c) really
d) calm
18. We want to leave for vacation in two days; _______, we have a week’s work to complete.
a) therefore
b) for example
c) meanwhile
d) perhaps
Choose the sentence that is most clearly expressed.
19. a) Singing on its perch in the old apple tree, I saw a robin.
b) I saw the robin singing on its perch in the old apple tree.
c) From its perch in the old apple tree, I saw a robin singing.
d) The robin I saw sung from its perch in the old apple tree.
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20. a) Jack argued that he undoubtedly and without fail knew the right technique to finish the
job completion.
b) Jack argued that he knew the best technique to complete the project efficiently.
c) Without a doubt, Jack argued that he knew the best technique to efficiently complete the
project.
d) Jack argued that he, without a doubt, knew the best technique to complete the project to
completion efficiently.
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Reading Comprehension: Read and answer the following questions
In the sixteenth century, an age of great marine and terrestrial exploration, Ferdinand Magellan led the
first expedition to sail around the world. As a young Portuguese noble, he served the king of Portugal, but he
became involved in the entanglement of political intrigue at court and lost the king's favor. After he was dismissed
from service to the king of Portugal, he offered to serve the future Emperor Charles V of Spain.
A papal decree of 1493 had assigned all land in the New World west of 50 degrees W longitude to Spain
and all the land east of that line to Portugal. Magellan offered to prove that the East Indies fell under Spanish
authority. On September 20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain with five ships. More than a year later, one of
these ships was exploring the physical features of South America in search of a water route across the continent.
This ship sank, but the remaining four ships searched along the southern peninsula of South America. Finally they
found the passage they sought near latitude of 50 degrees S. Magellan named this passage the Strait of All Saints,
but today we know it as the Strait of Magellan.
One ship deserted while in this passage and returned to Spain, so fewer sailors were privileged to gaze at
that first panorama of the Pacific Ocean. Those who remained crossed the meridian we now call the International
Date Line in the early spring of 1521 after ninety-eight days on the Pacific Ocean. During those long days at sea,
many of Magellan's men died of starvation and disease.
Later Magellan became involved in an insular conflict in the Philippines and was killed in a tribal battle.
Only one ship and seventeen sailors under the command of the Basque navigator Elcano survived to complete the
westward journey to Spain and thus prove once and for all that the world is round, with no precipice at the edge.
21. Magellan lost the favor of the king of Portugal when he became involved in a political ___.
a) entanglement
b) discussion
c) negotiation
d) problems
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22. One of Magellan's ships explored the ___ of South America for a passage across the
continent.
a) coastline
b) mountain range
c) physical features
d) islands
23. The sixteenth century was an age of great ___exploration.
a) cosmic
b) land
c) mental
d) common man
24. In the spring of 1521, the ships crossed the ___ now called the International Date Line.
a) meridian
b) Imaginary line parallel to the equator
c) area
d) land mass
25. Four of the ships sought a passage along a southern ___.
a) coast
b) inland
c) peninsula
d) border
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