Unit 1: Heritage
The Land I Lost
1. Which of the following statements tells you this is an autobiography?
A. When she was eighty years old, grandmother was still quite strong.
B. I was born on the central highlands of Vietnam.
C. The river had different dangers.
D. All the onlookers were surprised and delighted.
2. Which statement best describes why the author wrote this selection?
A. to convince the reader to take a trip to Vietnam
B. to share what Huynh learned about life from his father
C. to give insight into the memories of his grandmother
D. to tell about life in Vietnam
3. The author wrote, “…how to distinguish edible mushrooms from
poisonous ones”. What does edible mean?
A. full of flavor
B. unable to eat
C. able to be picked
D. safe to eat
4. How did Huynh probably feel about his grandmother?
A. Huynh respected her.
B. Huynh resented her.
C. Huynh was jealous of her.
D. Huynh was disinterested in her.
5. Which of the following could be another title for this selection?
A. “Life in Vietnam”
B. “Precious Memories”
C. “What My Father Taught Me”
D. “The Faithful One”
Unit 1: Heritage
The Land I Lost
6. What can you can conclude about Huynh?
A. He was a good farmer.
B. He was a good student.
C. He was a faithful grandson.
D. He was an angry young man.
7. What is the main purpose of pages 180-183?
A. to entertain with Huynh’s memories of his grandmother
B. to describe the hamlet where Huynh lived
C. to give information about monkey bridges
D. to provide background information on Huynh
8. What is the significance of the selection’s title? Use information from
the text to support your answer.
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Unit 1: Heritage
Our Song
1. How are Ole Ma and Josie alike?
A. Both have big feet.
B. Both live in Senegal.
C. Both love basketball.
D. Both are good singers.
2. Why did the women in the village most likely call Josie, “Little Goat”?
A. She sounded like a goat.
B. She had a pet goat.
C. She ran like a goat.
D. She played soccer like a goat.
3. Why was Josie probably so excited about visiting Senegal?
A. She wanted to see where Ole Ma had grown up.
B. She had hoped to miss a whole year of school.
C. She thought Ole Ma would be happy there.
D. She wanted to play soccer with other children.
4. Who could the “girl in the mist” be?
A. Ole Ma, as a young girl playing basketball
B. Josie’s great-great granddaughter
C. Ma, visiting the village
D. Charlotte, playing with Josie
5. What role did the song play in this selection?
A. It told about village life in Senegal.
B. It explained how life in a village is different than life in the city.
C. It showed that girls can play soccer as well as boys.
D. It connected generations of women to their families.
Unit 1: Heritage
Our Song
6. On page 50, paragraph 3, the author wrote, “…where they bag
groundnuts (peanuts) to ship off to everywhere in the world.” What does
the word ship mean?
A. a vessel that travels on water
B. to send something
C. to travel across the ocean
D. a way to communicate
7. What do Josie from “Our Song” and Huynh from “The Land I Lost” have
in common?
A. Both have favorite family songs.
B. Both have families that come from America.
C. Both have ancestors who tell stories about their lives.
D. Both have similar backgrounds.
8. Do you think Josie’s relationship with her great-great grandmother
changed from the beginning of the selection to the end? Use examples
from the text tosupportyour answer.
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Unit 1: Heritage
The Dancing Bird of Paradise
1. What is a Hibuki play?
A. a game played with fans
B. a style of Japanese theater
C. a name of an internment camp
D. a port in California
2. Why did Haruno most likely travel to Japan?
A. to study the language of family
B. to learn Japanese dance
C. to visit her grandparents
D. to learn Japanese traditions
3. Why did Haruno’s name change to Sahomi Tachibana?
A. to allow her to travel back to the United States
B. to keep her from the interment camps
C. to give her back her family name
D. to show that she learned to dance at Tachibana
4. Why were Sahomi and her family placed in an interment camp?
A. They performed plays.
B. That is where Japanese people settled in the United States.
C. Americans were afraid of Japanese Americans.
D. They loved to dance like the professionals.
5. Why did Sahomi most likely tell the story behind each dance to her
young students?
A. so her students would appreciate the traditional kimonos and fans
B. in order to choose the best dancers to perform for parents and friends
C. so the students would be better able to picture what each dance was
about
D. because she wanted the audience to understand they were
professional dancers
Unit 1: Heritage
The Dancing Bird of Paradise
6. Which of the followingbest tells how you know that news of Sahomi’s
talentspread?
A. The wife of the president came to see her dance.
B. She moved from Pennsylvania to New York.
C. Her costumes shone brighter than before.
D. The American government realized its mistake.
7. Which of the following best states why Sahomi continued to dance?
A. She wanted to stay fit and healthy.
B. She wanted to share her Japanese heritage.
C. She wanted to be a teacher.
D. She wanted to maker her parents proud.
8. How did this selection contribute to your understanding of the importance
of family heritage? Use information from the text to support your
answer.
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Unit 1: Heritage
From Miss Ida’s Porch
1. What is the main purpose of this selection?
A. to inform readers about Aunt Ida’s front porch
B. to demonstrate important characteristics of storytelling
C. to describe a concert at the Lincoln Memorial
D. to show the importance of the influence of the past on the present
2. Constitution Hall was one of the finest concert stages in Washington. What does
finest mean?
A. most superior
B. poorest
C. dullest
D. most flimsy
3. What did the narrator mean when she said Punkin “usually moved around
like a doll on strings”?
A. Punkin moved very slowly.
B. Punkin liked to play with puppets.
C. Punkin was continuously moving.
D. Punkin talked a lot.
4. Which of the following best expresses the narrator’s attitude toward Uncle Henry?
A. She was afraid of him because of his loud voice.
B. She did not remember him.
C. She was angry at him because he told endless stories
D. She treasured him because he was a great storyteller.
5. What is the effect of the simile, “His voice was like a drum—booming,
deep.”?
A. showed he played the drums
B. showed he had a powerful voice
C. showed he spoke softly
D. showed he was difficult to hear
Unit 1: Heritage
From Miss Ida’s Porch
6. How were Daddy and Uncle Henry similar?
A. Both liked to sit on Aunt Ida’s front porch.
B. Both were at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922.
C. Both had deep voices and were great storytellers.
D. Both had many children.
7. What does Uncle Henry most likely mean by “You can know where you
are going in this world only if you know where you’ve been!”?
A. You can only go to places you have been before.
B. You must tell stories so people will know about the places you have
been.
C. You need to have directions so you do not get lost.
D. You have to look at past history to understand where you are today.
8. Why did the author most likely repeat the phrase “You can know where
you are going this world only if you know where you’ve been!”? Use
examples from the text to support youranswer.
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Unit 1: Heritage
In Two Worlds
1. They believed that animals had spirits, and that the spirits survived the animals’
death to inhabit other animals. What does inhabit mean?
A. to borrow
B. to live in
C. to connect
D. to desire
2. What is the main idea of the first paragraph on page 102?
A. The Yup’ik Eskimos netted saltwater fish coming to lay their eggs.
B. The Yup’ik Eskimos trapped mammal for meat and fur.
C. The Yup’ik Eskimos used animals for light and heat for their homes.
D. The Yup’ik Eskimos knew exactly how to survive.
3. Given the information on page 104, what do you think the word
Ingelukmost likely means?
A. fishing pond
B. small hills
C. cold tundra
D. large mountains
4. What type of selection is this?
A. nonfiction
B. autobiography
C. myth
D. realistic fiction
5. What is probably the reason the author chose the title, “In Two Worlds”?
A. The setting of the selection was North and South America.
B. Mary Ann and Alice were from different generations.
C. There were many differences between the past and present.
D. The Eskimos had to learn both English and Yup’ik.
Unit 1: Heritage
In Two Worlds
6. Which of the following was a problem the Yup’iks faced as Scammon
Bay became more modernized?
A. They did not fish anymore.
B. They did not support their neighbors.
C. They had trouble disposing of modern trash.
D. They forgot their native language.
7. Why did the author most likely use subheadings in the selection?
A. to introduce each character sequentially
B. to tell about different Eskimo villages
C. to explain how life changed over time
D. to organize the information into meaningful text
8. How did life in ScammonBay change from the beginning of the selection
to the end? Use information fromthe text to support your answer.
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Unit 1: Heritage
I Look at You and Mama’s Glory
1. What was the speaker probably thinking at the end of the poem, “I Look at
You”?
A. He did not respect the resources of Mother Earth.
B. He hoped to see buffalo roam the grasslands.
C. He did not miss the way things used to be.
D. He wished the times were the way they used to be.
2. What is the mood of the poem, “I Look at You”?
A. enthusiastic
B. melancholy
C. humorous
D. cheerful
3. In the title, “I Look at You”, to whom is the speaker most likely
referring?
A. his father
B. himself
C. his heritage
D. his mother
4. In the poem, “Mama’s Glory”, what did the speaker mean by “her hair is a continent”?
A. It is soft and natural.
B. It is thick and sculpted.
C. It is like a crown.
D. It represents her culture.
Unit 1: Heritage
I Look at You and Mama’s Glory
5. How are the poems, “I Look at You” and “Mama’s Glory” similar? Use
examples from the text to support your answer.
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EOG Practice Assessments Teacher’s Edition: Grade 5 Imagine It! – 1
Mary McAdoo, Carol Christensen, Wendy Lundsgaard