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Raising Dragons Reading Comprehension Assessment
Reading: Word Analysis, Vocabulary, and Fluency
Directions: Read each sentence below. Choose the word that best
replaces the underlined words.
1. I’d better keep my ideas to myself.
a. appetite
c. opinion
b. tended
d. admiring
2. After working all day, everyone had a big hunger for food when it was time for
supper.
a. appetite
c. harvested
b. hitched
d. tended
3. Hank likes to eat beef, lamb, chicken, and pork.
a. hitched
c. plow
b. chores
d. preferred
4. They took care of the vegetable garden by weeding and watering it.
a. chores
c. tended
b. harvested
d. plow
5. When Hank was leaving, the little girl became upset.
a. admiring
c. chores
b. departing
d. appetite
6. The little girl loved the different dragon eggs and enjoyed looking at them.
a. admired
c. appetite
b. tended
d. harvested
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Raising Dragons Reading Comprehension Assessment
Reading Comprehension
Directions: Read each question. Choose the best answer.
8. Where does the girl’s family live?
a. in the city
b. on a farm
c. on a dragon-shaped island
d. in a barn
9. Why does the girl’s father tell her to stay away from the egg in Miller’s Cave?
a. He’s afraid of what might be inside the egg.
b. He is worried that she will get hurt.
c. He wants to protect her.
d. All of the above.
10. Hank had a healthy appetite. Which of the following did Hank NOT enjoy
eating?
a. eel potpies
b. fish and insect stew
c. hamburgers
d. frog-leg pudding
11. How do you know that Ma doesn’t like having a dragon around at first?
a. She would cover her ears and sing when the girl tried to talk about Hank.
b. She made him special meals.
c. She let him stay in the barn.
d. She never imagined that the girl would raise a dragon.
12. Why is Pa worried about the corn that the girl and Hank planted?
a. It didn’t grow.
b. There was too much of it.
c. It didn’t taste good.
d. None of the above.
13. How was the family’s corn problem solved?
a. Hank burned down the corn field.
b. Hank took the corn to the dragon island.
c. Hank made it into popcorn and the family sold it for a profit.
d. Frogs and eels ate the corn.
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14. How does the girl know that the dragon island was the perfect place for Hank
to be?
a. Hank felt right at home.
b. Hank played with the other dragons.
c. There were dragons everywhere.
d. All of the above.
15. Why does Hank try to control his temper when the little girl is around?
a. He doesn’t want his fiery breath to hurt her.
b. He is afraid she won’t like him anymore.
c. He is ashamed of his temper.
d. He thinks she will laugh at him.
16. Why does the little girl take Hank to the dragons’ island?
a. Her parents are afraid of Hank.
b. He is too big to fit in the barn.
c. She wants to get him away from the curious crowds.
d. He eats so much that they can’t feed him anymore.
17. The girl got the idea to take Hank to the dragon island after she reads
Murdoch’s Adventure Atlas of the Known and Unknown World. What
is an atlas?
a. a book with words and definitions
b. a book of maps
c. a fairy tale
d. a book of telephone numbers and addresses
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Raising Dragons Reading Comprehension Assessment
Reading: Literary Response and Analysis
Directions: Read each question. Choose the best answer.
18. Why do you think the girl’s parents taught her how to care for living things?
Why is this important?
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19. Why do you think the little girl and Hank fly mostly at night?
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20. This story is best described as
a. a biography c. nonfiction
b. a fantasy
d. a folktale
21. Who is telling this story?
a. Ma
c. Hank
b. Pa
d. the girl
22. Which word best describes Pa at the end of the story?
a. angry
c. sad
b. proud
d. worried
23. Why does the girl decide to take Hank to the dragon-shaped island?
a. His fiery breath is too dangerous on the farm.
b. She thinks he’s annoying.
c. Too many people wanted dragon-grown food.
d. She didn’t like the popcorn he made.
24. How does Hank feel about the girl in the story?
a. He trusts her.
b. He thinks she is a good friend.
c. He is thankful to her for raising him.
d. All of the above
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Raising Dragons Reading Comprehension Assessment
Suffixes
1. The traveler went all over North and South America. What does the word traveler mean?
a. to travel alone
c. someone who travels
b. without traveling
d. to travel the most
2. Which suffix can be added to the word color to mean full of color?
a. less
b. ful
c. er
d. ing
3. Choose the word that means in a slow way:
a. slowest
b. slowful
c. unslow
d. slowly
4. In the words faster, smarter, stronger, the suffix -er is used to
a. show someone who
c. mean the most
b. compare two things
d. not strong
5. Which suffix can be added to the word usual to mean in a usual way:
a. ly
b. ful
c. un
d. less
6. The student was being careless on his homework and he missed all of the answers. What does the
word careless mean?
a. caring too much
c. in a caring way
b. full of care
d. without care
7. In the words prettiest, cleanest, and highest the suffix -est means
a. without
c. the most
b. before
d. having
8. Choose the word that means to one who farms:
a. farmless
b. farming
b. farmest
c. farmer
9. Which suffix can be added to the word use to mean full of use?
a. ly
b. less
c. ful
d. ing
10. In the word hopeless, the suffix less means:
a. the most
c. one with hope
b. without
d. full of