PROGRESS TEST
SIXTH GRADE - SECOND TERM
Teacher: Yerlis Bermúdez Villazón
READING TEST
A. Read the following passages and answer the questions below. Choose only one option each.
Clue N. 1 Clue N. 2
What is happening?
Billy stretched and opened his eyes. Where was he? He was in a The Moon
fancy bed in a huge room that was definitely not his own! By Robert Louis Stevenson
Suddenly, a young man walked in with breakfast on a tray.
“Your majesty!” he said. The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
“Umm… Who are you, and why did you call me ‘your majesty’?” She shines on thieves on the garden wall,
Calmly, the man answered, “I am Lionel, your servant, and you, On streets and fields and harbour quays,
of course, are King Cedric.”
Billy jumped out of bed, “I am not! Where are my parents? What And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.
have you done with them!” he yelled and ran out of the room.
At the bottom of a staircase, Billy found two servants who The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
curtsied. The howling dog by the door of the house,
Billy said, “Can you help me find my family?” The women looked
The bat that lies in bed at noon,
at him strangely.
“Oh, never mind,” Billy said. He sat down on the bottom step, All love to be out by the light of the moon.
closed his eyes, and cried big salty tears. He had never felt so
homesick. When he opened his eyes again, Billy woke up back in But all of the things that belong to the day
his own cozy bed! Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way;
“Surprise!” his father said as he walked in carrying a tray. “I
brought you breakfast!” And flowers and children close their eyes
Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.
Clue N. 3 CHESTER: (grinning) I have an idea. How about if we
all pitch in and clean the barn, and keep it clean.
Chester’s Plan Then the Hogans will see how little trouble we are!
Characters ELOISE: a cow, CHESTER: a horse, DOLLY: a DOLLY: Great idea!
chicken, SAM: a rooster, and PAULINE: a pig. [The animals start cleaning.]
[The animals are in the Hogans’ barn.] PAULINE: (proudly) My sty looked so good!
ELOISE: Why are you so blue, Chester? SAM: Shhh! Someone is coming!
CHESTER: I have bad news. All you listen up! [Enter Mr. and Mrs. Hogan.]
[The animals gather around.] MRS. HOGAN: Wow, I never noticed how clean our
CHESTER: Today, I heard Mr. Hogan tell his wife animals keep the barn!
that they might have to sell me and one of the MR. HOGAN: They are special. It would be unwise
cows. They need the money. to sell them. They are more valuable than money.
ELOISE: (gasping) No!
SAM: That is not right. What can we do? [Chester whinnies and Eloise is happy. Curtain.]
1. Clue N. 1 is an example of prose because… 2. Clue N. 2 is an example of poetry because…
a. It is written using sentences and paragraphs. a. It is written using sentences and paragraphs.
b. It has lines and stanzas. b. It has lines and stanzas.
c. It is written in the form of a script. c. It is written in the form of a script.
3. Clue N. 3 is an example of drama because… 4. Clue N. 2 has …stanzas and …lines in total.
a. It is written using sentences and paragraphs. a. …three …four.
b. It has lines and stanzas. b. …three …twelve.
c. It is written in the form of a script. c. …two …four.
5. What is the rhyme pattern for clue N. 2? 6. Infer: What happens at the end of Clue N. 1?
a. ABCD a. Billy wakes up to find he is King Cedric.
b. AABB b. Lionel brings him breakfast in bed.
c. ABAB c. Billy wakes up in his own bed at home
7. Visualize what is happening in all three texts? 8. Infer: How did Billy feel when he woke up back
a. A boy playing a video game and falling asleep in class, the moon and the wolf in his own bed?
barking.
b. A glowing moon watching over quiet animals, a confused boy in a big bed, a. Relieved
and farm animals cleaning a barn. b. Confused
c. A classroom full of noisy students and a teacher writing on the board about
animlas and the moon. c. Frightened
B. Using the clues infer what is being described. Write only one word for each question.
1. I am something that both humans and animals have 2. I’m much smaller than the Earth, but I can be easily
inside their mouths. I am actually the hardest part of seen from it. Even though I don’t produce light
your entire body. People typically receive two sets of myself, I reflect sunlight and can appear to glow. My
me in their lifetime. Sometimes, especially during surface is covered in craters because of many impacts
childhood or adolescence, people wear braces to over time. In old nursery rhymes, cows are said to
help align me correctly. My main job is to help you jump over me. I orbit the Earth and my gravitational
chew and break down your food before you swallow pull plays an important role in creating ocean tides.
it. Children usually have 20 of me, while adults have Many years ago, humans traveled to me in a
around 32. What am I? spaceship. What am I?
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3. You usually keep me in your bathroom, and you use 4. I am a machine that helps people move from one
me every day to take care of your teeth. I have a place to another much faster than walking or riding a
handle, and on one end, I have soft bristles. You bicycle. I come in many different models, colors, and
normally put toothpaste on me before using me. sizes. I have four wheels, and I usually need gasoline
Dentists recommend that you use me three times a or electricity to run. I also have a trunk where you
day to keep your teeth clean and healthy. I help you can carry things. Many years ago, Henry Ford played
remove food, plaque, and bacteria, which prevents a big role in making me popular. If someone wants to
cavities and bad breath. Sometimes, dentists even use me, they must have a driver’s license and a
give me away after a checkup. What am I? license plate. What am I?
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C. Read each figurative language and answer the question: What type of figurative language is
used in this sentence? Choose only one answer for each one.
1. Bite off more than you can chew 2. He was a library of information about
baseball.
a. onomatopoeia c. personification a. Alliteration c. personification
b. metaphor d. Idiom b. metaphor d. simile
3. The curtain was waving to everyone every 4. The baby was like an octopus,
time the wind blew through the window. grabbing everything in sight.
a. personification c. hyperbole a. hyperbole c. simile
b. onomatopoeia d. metaphor b. personification d. metaphor
5. Mr. John Jairo groaned as he got up from 6. The tree shook its branches angrily
the floor. and spread the snow away.
a. metaphor c. onomatopoeia a. hyperbole c. personification
b. hyperbole d. personification b. metaphor d. onomatopoeia
7. Her head was so full of ideas that it was 8. Curiosity killed the cat
ready to burst wide open.
a. hyperbole c. metaphor a. hyperbole c. simile
b. personification d. alliteration b. Idiom d. metaphor
9. Teddy tiger tried tying teepees together. 10. I like pancakes so much I could eat a
million of them.
a. onomatopoeia c. hyperbole a. hyperbole c. personification
b. idiom d. alliteration b. idiom d. alliteration
11. My father was the sun and the moon to 12. "Smash", when the cup fell off the
me. table.
a. hyperbole c. simile a. personification c. hyperbole
b. personification d. metaphor b. metaphor d. onomatopoeia
This evaluation has taken and adapted exercises from:
• https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-moon
• https://www.englishworksheetsland.com/riddles.html
• https://brainly.com/question/3614191
