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Fun With CMAS-ELA edition
Fun With CMAS-ELA edition
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Quiz designed to review terms and test taking strategies for CMAS
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1
When you check over your answers before moving on to the next question, you are...
Remembering
Reviewing
Rereading
Redoing
2
What is an antonym for the term "contrast?"
Opposite
Similar
Different
Identify
3
Choose the most important strategy when beginning a new section, passage or set of questions:
Review the questions.
Eliminate possible answers.
Arrive on time.
Read the directions carefully.
4
What strategy would you use to find the meaning of an unknown word?
Compare/Contrast
Context Clues
Predict
Infer
5
The exam instructs you to write an essay. What should you include?
A fact or detail
A quote
All of the above
A thesis statement / Introduction
6
A command or request to do something, ends in a period OR exclamation mark.
Imperative sentence
exclamatory sentence
Interrogative sentence
7
The most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text is called
Inferences
Author's purpose
Central Idea
Dialogue
8
What is one item on the CMAS test you
don't
need to reread?
Directions
Questions
Passages
Trick question. You can and should reread all of the above.
9
What do you have to do to support an idea, statement, or claim?
Provide text evidence
Provide a description
Provide an inference
Provide an explanation
10
What does the term "describe" mean?
To provide three pieces of evidence.
To provide a clear picture with details.
To provide a detailed explanation.
To define a term or vocabulary word.
11
To qualify for the "BEST EFFORT" reward, how much time do you need to spend on the test?
At least half of the testing session
Approximately 40 days and 40 nights
35 minutes
At least 15 minutes
12
What is a synonym for the word "choose?"
Eliminate
Conclude
Grab
Select
13
Words placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences to connect them together.
exclamations
simple sentences
compound sentences
conjunctions
14
What is a synonym for the word "compare?"
Explain
Similar
Define
Different
15
You are writing an essay. Which transition phrases should you use in your body paragraphs?
First, Second, Lastly
Once upon a time, Magically, They lived happily ever after
Maybe, Definitely, Why not
In addition, Therefore, Ultimately, Finally
16
"To conclude" means:
To give a brief overview of a passage.
To arrive at a decision.
To read between the lines.
To determine how characteristics are not alike.
17
Choose the word that means: to provide a brief overview of the main points of a passage.
Summarize
Explanation
Comparison
Contrast
18
What is the purpose of using the "cross off" tool?
To eliminate answers
To highlight answers
To check answers
To choose answers
19
Which tools should you use when you have to write an essay on the CMAS assessment?
Working Notes
Cross off
Bookmark
Paper to brainstorm or outline
20
Why do you need to preview the questions before reading a CMAS passage?
To help you remember important details.
So you know what to look for when you are reading the text.
So you can manage your time wisely
You need to make sure your answers are correct
21
What does author's purpose include?
persuade, inform, entertain
entertain, create, hyperventilate
persuade, dominate, abbreviate
inform, humiliate, dancing
22
A sentence with one subject and one predicate is called:
simple sentence
dialogue
explanation
character
23
FANBOYS stands for:
Flip again Now Bat out your stains
For And Nor But Or Yet So
Freak Apples Not Bananas Or Yam Slices
Free Ageless Naughty Bananas Or You're Sorry
24
Why do you need to preview the questions before reading a CMAS passage?
So you can manage your time wisely
To help you remember important details.
So you know what to look for when you are reading the text.
You need to make sure your answers are correct
25
Mrs. Cary likes to shuck sweet corn, and she likes to bake rosemary bread- Is an example of:
Compound Sentence
Dialogue
Simple Sentence
Someone with too much time on their hands.
