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Grade 6 | Unit 2 | Quiz | The Girl with the Rose-Red Slippers; Yeh-Shen
Reading Comprehension
1. In “The Girl with the Rose-Red Slippers,” which detail MOST STRONGLY suggests that
Charaxos loves Rhodopis?
a. He feels pity when she tells him about her childhood.
b. He considers her the loveliest person he has ever seen.
c. He gives her many presents even though she is his slave.
d. He feels happy for her new life even though he will miss her.
2. Which detail from “Yeh-Shen” MOST STRONGLY suggests that Yeh-Shen is a kind person?
a. She has skin as smooth as ivory.
b. She shares her scant food with her pet fish.
c. She does the heaviest and hardest chores.
d. She keeps a secret from her stepmother.
3. In “Yeh-Shen,” the stepmother and stepsister are crushed when flying stones fall on their cave
home. What theme does this detail suggest?
a. It is never too late to change your ways.
b. Fate is unkind to people who are unkind.
c. Bad luck is just as common as good luck.
d. Love and beauty will always conquer evil.
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Grade 6 | Unit 2 | Quiz | The Girl with the Rose-Red Slippers; Yeh-Shen
5. In “The Girl with the Rose-Red Slippers,” Rhodopis is glad when her rose-red slipper is returned
to her because she is fond of her slippers. In “Yeh-Shen,” Yeh-Shen is glad to get her golden
slipper back because
a. the king will marry the woman who wears the slippers.
b. the slippers are the only beautiful things she owns.
c. she needs the slipper to talk to the bones of the fish again.
d. she knows the slippers are valuable and wants to sell them.
6. What first causes the Pharaoh in “The Girl with the Rose-Red Slippers” to fall in love with
Rhodopis and the king in “Yeh-Shen” to fall in love with Yeh-Shen?
a. their beauty
b. their kindness
c. their intelligence
d. their devotion
Vocabulary
7. Which word includes a Latin root that means water?
a. thermos
b. aquifer
c. cacophony
d. chronometer
8. The word chronicle contains the Greek root –chron– and means writing that
a. explains the formation of the earth.
b. counts the number of people in an area.
c. explains how to overcome fears.
d. tells what happened in the past.
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Grade 6 | Unit 2 | Quiz | The Girl with the Rose-Red Slippers; Yeh-Shen
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