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Grade 6 | Unit 2 | Quiz | The Girl with the Rose-Red Slippers; Yeh-Shen

Reading Comprehension

1. In “The Girl with the Rose-Red Slippers,” which detail MOST STRONGLY suggests that
Charaxos loves Rhodopis?
a. He feels pity when she tells him about her childhood.
b. He considers her the loveliest person he has ever seen.
c. He gives her many presents even though she is his slave.
d. He feels happy for her new life even though he will miss her.

ANS: d PTS: 1 CCSS: RL.6.2 DOK: 2

TOPIC: analyze theme

2. Which detail from “Yeh-Shen” MOST STRONGLY suggests that Yeh-Shen is a kind person?
a. She has skin as smooth as ivory.
b. She shares her scant food with her pet fish.
c. She does the heaviest and hardest chores.
d. She keeps a secret from her stepmother.

ANS: b PTS: 1 CCSS: RL.6.2 DOK: 2

TOPIC: analyze theme

3. In “Yeh-Shen,” the stepmother and stepsister are crushed when flying stones fall on their cave
home. What theme does this detail suggest?
a. It is never too late to change your ways.
b. Fate is unkind to people who are unkind.
c. Bad luck is just as common as good luck.
d. Love and beauty will always conquer evil.

ANS: b PTS: 1 CCSS: R.6.2 DOK: 2

TOPIC: analyze theme

4. Which sentence MOST ACCURATELY contrasts the living situations of Rhodopis

and Yeh-Shen?
a. Rhodopis is waited on by slaves, while Yeh-Shen is a slave.
b. Rhodopis lives in a grand house, while Yeh-Shen lives in a cave house.
c. Both live with step-parents who treat them unkindly.
d. Both are orphans who were treated unkindly when they were young.

ANS: b PTS: 1 CCSS: RL.6.9 DOK: 2

TOPIC: compare and contrast texts

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Grade 6 | Unit 2 | Quiz | The Girl with the Rose-Red Slippers; Yeh-Shen

5. In “The Girl with the Rose-Red Slippers,” Rhodopis is glad when her rose-red slipper is returned
to her because she is fond of her slippers. In “Yeh-Shen,” Yeh-Shen is glad to get her golden
slipper back because
a. the king will marry the woman who wears the slippers.
b. the slippers are the only beautiful things she owns.
c. she needs the slipper to talk to the bones of the fish again.
d. she knows the slippers are valuable and wants to sell them.

ANS: c PTS: 1 CCSS: RL.6.9 DOK: 1

TOPIC: compare and contrast texts

6. What first causes the Pharaoh in “The Girl with the Rose-Red Slippers” to fall in love with
Rhodopis and the king in “Yeh-Shen” to fall in love with Yeh-Shen?
a. their beauty
b. their kindness
c. their intelligence
d. their devotion

ANS: a PTS: 1 CCSS: RL.6.9 DOK: 2

TOPIC: compare and contrast texts

Vocabulary
7. Which word includes a Latin root that means water?
a. thermos
b. aquifer
c. cacophony
d. chronometer

ANS: b PTS: 1 CCSS: L.6.4.b DOK: 1

TOPIC: Greek and Latin roots

8. The word chronicle contains the Greek root –chron– and means writing that
a. explains the formation of the earth.
b. counts the number of people in an area.
c. explains how to overcome fears.
d. tells what happened in the past.

ANS: d PTS: 1 CCSS: L.6.4.b DOK: 2

TOPIC: Greek and Latin roots

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Grade 6 | Unit 2 | Quiz | The Girl with the Rose-Red Slippers; Yeh-Shen

Language

9. Choose the sentence with an incorrect intensive pronoun.

a. You yourself should be the one to solve this puzzle.
b. I myself told Salma the news as soon as I received it.
c. The fashion designer chose the fabric herself.
d. The doorman themselves gave the key to Alex and Emilio.

ANS: d PTS: 1 CCSS: L.6.1.b DOK: 1

TOPIC: intensive pronouns

10. Complete the sentence with the correct intensive pronoun.

It is important that you _____ correct the errors in your test.
a. yourself
b. himself
c. ourselves
d. myself

ANS: a PTS: 1 CCSS: L.6.1.b DOK: 2

TOPIC: intensive pronouns