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5th grade (Year 6 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: L.4.4.B, L.5.4.B, L.6.4.B, L.5.5.A · England: Y5/6 Vocabulary (word origins), 11+ English, Y5/6 Reading (figurative language)

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Question 1
Both words can mean "careful with money". Which one gives a more NEGATIVE feeling?
- A. stingy
- B. thrifty
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Question 2
What does this root mean? therm (as in thermometer, thermal)
- A. heat
- B. water
- C. measure
- D. cold
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Question 3
Complete the analogy. Puppy is to dog as kitten is to ___.
- A. milk
- B. cat
- C. mouse
- D. bark
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Question 4
Which is the most FORMAL way to say "buy"?
- A. pick up
- B. purchase
- C. snap up
- D. grab
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Question 5
Use the word parts to work out the meaning. What does "telescope" mean? (tele = far, scope = look)
- A. an instrument for seeing far away
- B. a type of map
- C. a phone for calling far away
- D. a tool for writing
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Question 6
Which technique is used here? I've told you a million times!
- A. personification
- B. hyperbole
- C. alliteration
- D. onomatopoeia

My Grandmother's Hands

My grandmother's hands are brown and wrinkled, like a map of rivers that have been flowing for eighty years. When I was small, I used to trace the lines with my finger and ask her where each one went. "This one," she would say, pointing to a deep crease across her palm, "goes back to the farm where I grew up, where I picked cotton until my fingers bled." Then she would point to a thin white scar on her thumb. "And this one leads to the night I learned to cook for eight brothers and sisters." Her hands have kneaded thousands of loaves of bread. They have stitched every quilt in our house and plaited my hair before every first day of school. They once caught my baby brother when he slipped from the top of the slide, faster than anyone thought an old woman could move. These days her hands shake a little when she holds her teacup. Sometimes she drops a stitch and has to start a row again. But when she takes my hands in hers, they are still the strongest hands I know.

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Question 7
Read "My Grandmother's Hands". The narrator compares Grandmother's hands to "a map of rivers". What does this suggest?
- A. Her hands are always wet.
- B. She likes to travel.
- C. The lines on her hands tell the story of her long life.
- D. Her hands are covered in ink.

Message in a Bottle (a poem)

I am a bottle, empty and light, tossed from a boat on a bright summer night. No note inside me, no secret to tell, just plastic and air and a sea-salty smell. The ocean is patient, the ocean is wide; it rocks me and rolls me from tide to tide. A turtle swims near me and stares at my shine. I am not a jellyfish. Please, don't you dine! I'll drift for a lifetime, I'll drift for a few, I'll crumble to pieces too tiny for you. But somebody somewhere could carry me back, a hand on the beach and a bin in a sack. So here is my message, though no one wrote it: the sea keeps whatever we throw. Don't forget it.

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Question 8
Read "Message in a Bottle (a poem)". "The ocean is patient" is an example of…
- A. a simile
- B. personification
- C. alliteration
- D. onomatopoeia

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Question 9
Which prefix fits? Use the clue in brackets. The ball will ___flate if it has a hole. (let the air out)
- A. de
- B. mis
- C. over
- D. re
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Question 10
Which suffix turns "real" into a verb?
- A. -ify
- B. -ise/-ize
- C. -ate
- D. -en

The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

The storm had been building all afternoon. By the time the sun set, waves as tall as houses were hurling themselves against the rocks below Gull Point Lighthouse, and the wind screamed around the tower like a wild animal. Nell pressed her face to the window of the little cottage. Her father had rowed to the mainland that morning to fetch the doctor for Mrs Penrose, and the sea had turned before he could return. Now, for the first time in her twelve years, Nell was alone at the lighthouse. She knew what that meant. Every night at dusk, the great lamp at the top of the tower had to be lit. Without it, ships would have no warning of the rocks. Nell grabbed the lantern and her father's oilskin coat, which hung down past her knees, and pushed open the door. The wind nearly knocked her flat. Bent double, she stumbled across the yard and into the tower. There were one hundred and twelve steps to the top. Nell had climbed them hundreds of times, but never in the dark, never with the whole tower trembling. Halfway up, her lantern flickered and almost went out. She stopped, cupped her hand around the flame and whispered, "Not now. Please, not now." At the top, her fingers were numb with cold. She trimmed the wick the way her father had shown her, filled the oil and struck a match. Nothing. A second match. Nothing. With the third, a tiny flame caught, grew and then blazed, and the great lens began to turn, sweeping its beam across the furious sea. Far out in the darkness, a ship's horn sounded twice. Nell did not know whose ship it was. But she knew that, tonight, it would find its way home.

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Question 11
Read "The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter". "The wind screamed around the tower like a wild animal." What does this simile suggest?
- A. The storm was ending.
- B. The wind was loud, fierce and frightening.
- C. An animal was near the tower.
- D. The wind was gentle.

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Question 12
Our neighbour is a gossip. Does "gossip" have a positive, neutral or negative connotation?
- A. positive
- B. neutral
- C. negative

Message in a Bottle (a poem)

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Question 13
Read "Message in a Bottle (a poem)". In verse 3, the bottle will "crumble to pieces too tiny for you". What idea does this show?
- A. The bottle will turn into sand and disappear safely.
- B. The bottle will become a jellyfish.
- C. The bottle will grow bigger.
- D. Plastic breaks into tiny bits that are hard to see or remove.

The Moon's Night Walk (a poem)

The moon puts on her silver coat and tiptoes up the sky. She hums a tune to sleepy owls and winks at clouds nearby. She paints the rooftops pearly white, she lights the cat's way home, she peeps into the children's rooms to check they're not alone. She counts the stars like sleeping sheep, she sings the sea to rest, she hangs a lantern on the hill for travellers in the west. And when the sun yawns in the east and stretches out his rays, the moon slips off her silver coat and hides away for days. But look up on a quiet night when all the town's asleep: she's tiptoeing across the sky with promises to keep.

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Question 14
Read "The Moon's Night Walk (a poem)". The poet writes that the moon "tiptoes up the sky". Which technique is this?
- A. simile
- B. alliteration
- C. onomatopoeia
- D. personification

Question 15
Join the word and the suffix to make a verb. Type it. (Either -ise or -ize is accepted.) motive + ate
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Message in a Bottle (a poem)

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Question 16
Read "Message in a Bottle (a poem)". The bottle says the sea is "patient". Which word has the most POSITIVE feeling for the way the sea treats the bottle?
- A. hurls
- B. rocks
- C. batters
- D. tosses

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Answer key: 5th grade vocabulary

1. A. stingy
2. A. heat
3. B. cat
4. B. purchase
5. A. an instrument for seeing far away
6. B. hyperbole
7. C. The lines on her hands tell the story of her long life.
8. B. personification
9. A. de
10. B. -ise/-ize
11. B. The wind was loud, fierce and frightening.
12. C. negative
13. D. Plastic breaks into tiny bits that are hard to see or remove.
14. D. personification
15. motivate
16. B. rocks