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After reading the story "The Lost Iguana", students can practice their comprehension skills by playing "Who Wants To Be A Test Whiz".TRANSCRIPT
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Who Wants to be a Test Whiz
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A: eat
C: see
B: move
D: laugh
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“The iguana curled itself into a ball at the bottom of the pot and
would not budge.”
The word budge probably means
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A: flour
C: smile
B: noise
D: action
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“Diana’s mother reached for the iguana, but the movement sent the
pot rolling along the floor.”
In the sentence, the word movement probably means
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A: more careful
C: being careful
B: careful before
D: careful again
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Knowing the meaning of the suffix –ly helps the reader understand that
the word carefully means:
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A: topic of the passage
C: setting of the passage
B: author of the passage
D: importance of the passage
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The title “The Lost Iguana”, tells the
reader the
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A: was going to keep the iguana as a pet
C: had not done her homework for the night
B: needed to do a project on animals for school
D: needed to find someplace to release the iguana
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Diana’s mother gave Diana the homework of learning how
to take care of iguanas probably because Diana
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A: Diana
C: Diana’s mother
B: the iguana
D: The neighbor’s cat
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Who caused the flour jar to be
knocked over?
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A: does not like cats
C: knows he does not like flour
B: hears her mother coming
D: is afraid he will hurt the iguana
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Diana put Bear outside probably
because she
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A: doing her homework
C: finding the pot cover
B: pointing to the iguana
D: putting the cat outside
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Diana shows the flour mess was not
her fault by
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A: a school
C: a kitchen
B: a garage
D: a backyard
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What is the main setting of the
passage?
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A: Diana knocked the flour over
C: Diana has been cooking again
B: the iguana tried to eat the flour
D: the iguana knocked the flour over
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The kitchen is covered in flour
probably because
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A: an iguana that becomes a pet
C: an iguana that is seen by a cat
B: a mother who cleans kitchen
D: a girl who likes the neighbor cat
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The passage is mainly about
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A: lost a pot lid.
C: found an iguana
B: made a mess
D: played with the cat
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Based on the passage, the last time
Diana tried to cook she probably
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A: less dirt
C: before dirt
B: full of dirt
D: the best dirt
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Knowing the meaning of the suffix –y helps the reader understand that the word dirty means
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A: not known
C: known less
B: known more
D: known before
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Knowing the meaning of the prefix un- helps the
reader understand that the word unknown means
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A: Diana was given some homework about iguana. She learned how to care for them. She also learned that they like to live in boxes.
C: Diana saw an iguana go into the kitchen. Diana’s mother came in and caught the iguana in a pot. The iguana was given a new home in a box.
D: Bear saw an iguana in the backward. Bear followed the iguana into the kitchen. Diana caught Bear before he jumped up on the table and knocked over the flour.
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Which best retells the story?
B: An iguana went in the kitchen. Diana’s mother found it and tried to pull the iguana out from behind the stove. The iguana slipped out of her hand and ran away.
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