The Grapes of Wrath Reading Comprehension Practice PDF

Assessment Reading Comprehension Practice DIRECTIONS Read the following selection and then answer the questions. from The Grapes of Wrath assess...

Assessment Reading Comprehension Practice DIRECTIONS Read the following selection and then answer the questions. from The Grapes of Wrath assess John Steinbeck The practice test items on the next few pages match skills listed on the Unit When the first rain started, the migrant people huddled in their tents, Goals page (page 23) and saying, It’ll soon be over, and asking, How long’s it likely to go on? addressed throughout this And when the puddles formed, the men went out in the rain with shovels unit. Taking this practice and built little dikes around the tents. The beating rain worked at the canvas test will help you assess your knowledge of these until it penetrated and sent streams down. And then the little dikes washed skills and determine your out and the water came inside, and the streams wet the beds and the blankets. readiness for the Unit Test. The people sat in wet clothes. They set up boxes and put planks on the boxes. review Then, day and night, they sat on the planks. After you take the practice Beside the tents the old cars stood, and water fouled the ignition wires and test, your teacher can help 10 water fouled the carburetors. The little gray tents stood in lakes. And at last you identify any skills you the people had to move. Then the cars wouldn’t start because the wires were need to review. shorted; and if the engines would run, deep mud engulfed the wheels. And the Conflict people waded away, carrying their wet blankets in their arms. They splashed Setting along, carrying the children, carrying the very old, in their arms. And if a barn Mood Make Inferences stood on high ground, it was filled with people, shivering and hopeless. Chronological Order Then some went to the relief offices, and they came sadly back to their own Connotation and people. Denotation They’s rules—you got to be here a year before you can git relief. They say Specialized/Technical the gov’ment is gonna help. They don’t know when. Vocabulary 20 And gradually the greatest terror of all came along. Descriptive Details: Prepositional Phrases They ain’t gonna be no kinda work for three months. Sentence Flow: In the barns, the people sat huddled together; and the terror came over Coordinating them, and their faces were gray with terror. The children cried with hunger, Conjunctions and there was no food. Then the sickness came, pneumonia, and measles that went to the eyes and to the mastoids.1 And the rain fell steadily, and the water flowed over the highways, for the culverts2 could not carry the water. assessment online For more assessment 1. mastoids: parts of the skull that project behind the ears and contain air pockets practice and test-taking that can become infected. tips, go to the Assessment 2. culverts: drains crossing beneath roads. Center at ClassZone.com. 150 unit 1 : plot, setting, and mood  Then from the tents, from the crowded barns, groups of sodden men went 30 out, their clothes slopping rags, their shoes muddy pulp. They splashed out through the water, to the towns, to the country stores, to the relief offices, to beg for food, to cringe and beg for food, to beg for relief, to try to steal, to lie. And under the begging, and under the cringing, a hopeless anger began to smolder. And in the little towns pity for the sodden men changed to anger, and anger at the hungry people changed to fear of them. Then sheriffs swore in deputies in droves, and orders were rushed for rifles, for tear gas, for ammunition. Then the hungry men crowded the alleys behind the stores to beg for bread, to beg for rotting vegetables, to steal when they could. Frantic men pounded on the doors of the doctors; and the doctors were 40 busy. And sad men left word at country stores for the coroner3 to send a car. The coroners were not too busy. The coroners’ wagons backed up through the mud and took out the dead. And the rain pattered relentlessly down, and the streams broke their banks and spread out over the country. Huddled under sheds, lying in wet hay, the hunger and the fear bred anger. Then boys went out, not to beg, but to steal; and men went out weakly, to try to steal. The sheriffs swore in new deputies and ordered new rifles; and the comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and 50 finally hatred for the migrant people. 3. coroner (kôrPE-nEr): an official whose job is to investigate deaths go on in order to determine their causes. assessment pr actice 151