myTestBook.com Math Reading Science Practice Test for Grade 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5  

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Test Topic(s): Reading, Poems

Read the following text/image to answer questions 1 through 5
THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO

Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
'Good gracious! how you hop!
Over the fields and the water too,
As if you never would stop!
My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
And I long to go out in the world beyond!
I wish I could hop like you!'
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.

Question 1:
What does the Duck like about Kangaroo?
How strong Kangaroo is
The way Kangaroo can hop
How big kangaroo is
How smart Kangaroo is
Question 2:
Who can jump over the fields and the water?
Duck
Author
Kangaroo
Pond
Question 3:
What does the Duck wish for?
He could sing like Kangaroo
He could live in the fields
He could get better food
He could hop like Kangaroo
Question 4:
Where does the Duck live?
In a ocean
In a beautiful house
On a tree
In a pond
Question 5:
Identify two rhyming words used in the above poem.
Good and gracious
Stop and pond
Pond and beyond
Hop and too
Read the following text/image to answer questions 6 through 10
My grandfather's clock
was too large for the shelf
So it stood ninety years on the floor
It was taller by half than the old man himself
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
It was bought on the morn
Of the day that he was born
And was always his pleasure and pride
But it stopped short
Never to go again
When the Old-- Man-- died

Question 6:
Find an appropriate title for the above poem.
An Old Man
Grandfather
My Grandfather's Clock
Pleasure and Pride
Question 7:
Why did the clock stand on the floor for ninety years?
It was very dirty
It was too large
Grandfather didn't want to put it on the shelf
It was too small
Question 8:
Which statement is CORRECT?
Grandfather was taller than the clock.
The clock was heavier than the grandfather.
Grandfather sold the clock to his friend.
The clock was taller than the grandfather.
Question 9:
When was the clock bought?
The day grandfather was born.
On grandfather's ninetieth birthday.
On grandfather's fifth birthday.
The day grandfather died.
Question 10:
Find two rhyming words in the above poem.
Clock and shelf
Morn and born
Pride and again
Floor and shelf

 





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