Regents English 3rd Grade 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What does the root word 'vis' mean in 'visible'?
- Sound
- Touch
- See (Correct answer)
- Move
Correct answer: See
The Latin root 'vis' means 'see,' so 'visible' means able to be seen.
Question 2: Which text structure is used when an author explains what caused something and what happened as a result?
- Compare and contrast
- Problem and solution
- Cause and effect (Correct answer)
- Description
Correct answer: Cause and effect
Cause-and-effect text structure explains why something happened and what resulted from it.
Question 3: In the sentence 'Maria quickly finished her homework,' the subject is:
- Quickly
- Finished
- Homework
- Maria (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Maria
The subject is who or what the sentence is about; 'Maria' is performing the action.
Question 4: Which sentence correctly uses the word 'their'?
- The students forgot their lunches. (Correct answer)
- Their going to the park.
- I will go their later.
- Their is a dog outside.
Correct answer: The students forgot their lunches.
'Their' is a possessive pronoun showing that the lunches belong to the students.
Question 5: A fable is a story that:
- Is based on real historical events
- Features talking animals and teaches a moral lesson (Correct answer)
- Describes a scientific discovery
- Has a mystery that must be solved
Correct answer: Features talking animals and teaches a moral lesson
Fables are short stories, often with animal characters, that teach a lesson called a moral.
Question 6: Which sentence uses capitalization correctly?
- my friend lives in new york city.
- My friend lives in New York city.
- My friend lives in New York City. (Correct answer)
- my Friend lives in New York City.
Correct answer: My friend lives in New York City.
Proper nouns like the names of cities must be capitalized, and sentences begin with a capital letter.
Question 7: When a reader visualizes while reading, they are:
- Sounding out difficult words
- Creating mental pictures based on the text (Correct answer)
- Looking up words in a dictionary
- Writing a summary of the passage
Correct answer: Creating mental pictures based on the text
Visualizing is a reading strategy where readers form mental images to better understand the text.
Regents English 3rd Grade 5
What does the root word 'vis' mean in 'visible'?