Grade 6 English AMS Sample Questions 1516-66010

Class Reader: Hannibal pgs. 62-69 4. Who was the Roman General the
Numidian cavalry was sent to “lure”?
Vocabulary: List 10 / pgs. 62-69 a. Scipio
Spelling: List 9 / pgs. 52-61 b. Longus
c. Hanno
Grammar: Unit 10 - Prepositions d. Longinus
e. Laurites

Class Reader 5. In battle, where had Hannibal placed his

elephants?
Hannibal pgs. 62-69
a. The front of his forces
b. The back of his forces
c. The left of his forces
1. Why did Scipio have legions in the d. The right of his forces
Northern part of Italy? e. Above his forces
a. Because the Burgundians
revolted
b. Because the Gauls revolted
6. How many of Longus’ forces survived?
c. Because the Carthaginians
a. All
revolted
b. None
d. Because the Romans revolted
c. Barely one quarter
e. None of the above
d. 1,000
e. 100

2. Who did Hannibal order to join in on

the battle?
7. What rumors were spreading about the
a. Hanno
elephants and Hannibal’s fate?
b. Hannibal
a. The elephants are beasts from
c. Marcus
the gods
d. Hasdrubal
b. The elephants are gods
e. Scipio
c. Hannibal’s victory is imminent
d. Both A and C
e. Hannibal will fail
3. Where was the first major battle
located?
a. Between the Alps
b. Northern Italy
c. The Trebia River
d. All of the above
e. Both A and C
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8. What is killing Hannibal’s elephants? 12. How many elephants remained by

a. Bullets Spring?
b. Arrows a. All
c. Heat b. None
d. The brutal cold c. Ten
e. All of the above d. Five
e. One

9. Who did Hannibal NOT fight at The

Trebia River battle? 13. How many elephants did they begin the
a. Scipio journey with?
b. Longus a. 12
c. Romans b. 50
d. All of the above c. 37
e. Both A and B d. 24
e. 19

10. What happened to Scipio?

a. He was injured on the battle 14. What did Hannibal lose that Spring?
field a. His wealth
b. He died b. His health
c. He was ill with the flu c. His life
d. He developed an ear ache d. His wife
e. He was on vacation e. His eye

11. Who is Scipio Africanus? 15. Why did he lose it? (Answer to question
a. A local farmer 14)
b. Hannibal’s spy a. To an illness that later left him
c. Scipio’s son blind
d. Longus’ partner b. An arrow
e. A demi god c. A bullet
d. An elephant injured him
e. None of the above
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16. Where did Hannibal and his men have 20. As a result of Hannibal’s eye illness,
their next victory, south of the Trebia what was he no longer good at?
River? a. Seeing
a. Lake Falls b. Fighting
b. Lake Tresimania c. Archery
c. Lake Tresimene d. Swimming
d. Lake Tundra e. Reading
e. Lake Trashamene

17. Who set up spies from the Trebia River Vocabulary

to Rome?
a. Hannibal List 10 / pgs. 62-69
b. Carthaginian Senate Identify which of the following words have
c. Romans been defined INCORRECTLY.
d. Roman Senate
e. Longerus 21.

a. Fascinating: very interesting

18. Where had the Romans set up the b. Legions: a division of the ancient Roman
spies? army
a. At every pass from Trebia River
c. Speechless: able to speak for long periods of
to Rome
time
b. At river beds
c. From Trebia River to Carthage d. Thankfully: gratefully
d. All of the above
e. At the boundary lines e. Causing: to make something happen
f. Both A and D

22.
19. Where does Hannibal decide to move
a. Definite: certain
his army through, in order to keep the
Romans guessing? b. Dispatches: a report or message
a. The mountains
b. The plains c. Horsemen: a person who rides a horse
c. Through a swamp
d. Lure: to tempt a person or animal into a trap
d. Through an ocean
e. A sand pit e. Previously: in a manner which comes after
something else
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23. Identify which of the following words have

been defined CORRECTLY.
a. Additional: extra
26.
b. Fevered: to lose one’s temper
a. Inward: going or facing inwards
c. Gratifying: satisfying
b. Nestled: to make a nest
d. Pray: to talk to God
c. Suspect: an innocent person
e. Messages: a question or piece of information
sent from one person to another d. Descending: to rise

e. Emerging: to disappear

24.

a. Recovering: to get worse after being injured 27.

or ill
a. Fog: fresh air
b. Skirmish: a small battle
b. Intercepting: to help someone with a duty or
c. Freezing: to turn into ice activity

d. Illness: disease c. Mist: thin fog

e. Temperatures: how hot or cold someone or d. Prisoners: guards

something is
e. Shipments: supplies which arrive by plane

25.
28.
a. Unused: not used to
a. Batches: a set of gloves
b. Ability: the power
b. Practically: almost
c. Curved: to arch
c. Scavenged: to lose something very important
d. Deterred: to make someone interested in
doing something d. Severe: very good

e. Impact: a strong influence or effect e. Smuggled: to hold something tightly in one’s

arms.
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29.
Spelling
a. Fascinating: very boring
List 9 / pgs. 52-61
b. Legions: a division of the ancient Roman
army Identify which of the following words have
been spelled INCORRECTLY.
c. Speechless: able to speak for long periods of
time 31.

d. Thankfully: ungratefully a. Dreaded

e. Causing: to make someone ill b. Engagement

c. Ivading

30. d. Impending

a. Definite: unclear e. Originally

b. Dispatches: to call out or shout at someone

c. Horsemen: a person who washes horses 32.

d. Lure: to tempt a person or animal into a trap a. Pased

e. Previously: in a manner which comes after b. Absorbed

something else
c. Deathly

d. Measuring

e. Outsmart

33.

a. Rafts

b. Trunks

c. Usher

d. Volnuerable

e. Ferried
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34. 37.

a. Disheartened a. Assembled

b. Flowndering b. Decentte

c. Geysers c. Imerge

d. Sprayed d. Leser

e. Suck e. Victers

35. 38.

a. Surfased a. Cheares

b. Thrashing b. Echoing

c. Waterlogged c. Ocasions

d. Annoyed d. Pathes

e. Committed e. Repeet

Identify which of the following words have 39.

been spelled CORRECTLY.
a. Stungg
36.
b. Acidents
a. Traainers
c. Boulder
b. Bost
d. Combened
c. Grunble
e. Construckted
d. Sacrifices

e. Seede
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40.

a. Logges

b. Poure

c. Rock slide

d. Empending

e. Originaly

Grammar
Please refer to Grammar Sample/ Revision
Book Unit 10 - Prepositions