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Grade 4 Writing -TAKS - Objective 1 4.15A - Writing -  Pre-Test



True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
 

 1. 

To establish the authority of a web site you should check the web site’s origin.
 

 2. 

If a web site has many spelling errors, and evident factual errors, it lacks currency.
 

 3. 

Following is an appropriate bibliographic entry for an encyclopedia source:

Dahl, Roald. The BFG. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.
 

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 
 
Skeleton Lady
This story begins not too long ago and not far away. Just to the north of here there is a country where it is winter for seven long months of the year. Now this particular winter had gone on much longer than usual and the people were beginning to run out of food and firewood. Inside one small house right out in the barren snowlands an old lady was beginning to get anxious.  "Oh, my husband I am so cold and hungry. Look at me! My hands are blue! I am going to die I am sure of it."
"Don't worry my darling, winter will be over soon. We will have food again." But the old lady looked very ill and continued to get anxious. Eventually the old man said, "Very well my darling I will go and search for food. But before I go you must promise me one thing. You must not use the last two logs we have for the fire, we will need them to cook the food on when I return."
"Okay, okay I agree just go, and please find food."
With that the old man went out in search of food.
 

 4. 

"Oh, my husband I am so cold and hungry. Look at me! My hands are blue! I am going to die I am sure of it."
The quote above is probably an example of
a.
foreshadowing
c.
flashback
b.
forecasting
d.
dialogue
 

 5. 

"Very well my darling I will go and search for food. But before I go you must promise me one thing. You must not use the last two logs we have for the fire, we will need them to cook the food on when I return."
The passage above sets up a scenario for later in the story that
a.
will probably happen.
b.
will probably not figure into the plot.
c.
doesn’t make sense.
d.
means food will be found.
 



 
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