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    The passage is a reading comprehension quiz about the Amazon rainforest. It asks questions to assess understanding of key details from the reading like: the author's view that the Amazon is special and should be protected; that rainforests are forests that are warm and wet year-round; and that leaf-cutter ants carry leaves back to their nest to grow fungi. It also distinguishes facts from opinions and tests vocabulary like "habitat." The questions aim to evaluate the reader's comprehension of important aspects of the Amazon rainforest covered in the attached reading.

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    The passage is a reading comprehension quiz about the Amazon rainforest. It asks questions to assess understanding of key details from the reading like: the author's view that the Amazon is special and should be protected; that rainforests are forests that are warm and wet year-round; and that leaf-cutter ants carry leaves back to their nest to grow fungi. It also distinguishes facts from opinions and tests vocabulary like "habitat." The questions aim to evaluate the reader's comprehension of important aspects of the Amazon rainforest covered in the attached reading.

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    The passage is a reading comprehension quiz about the Amazon rainforest. It asks questions to assess understanding of key details from the reading like: the author's view that the Amazon is special and should be protected; that rainforests are forests that are warm and wet year-round; and that leaf-cutter ants carry leaves back to their nest to grow fungi. It also distinguishes facts from opinions and tests vocabulary like "habitat." The questions aim to evaluate the reader's comprehension of important aspects of the Amazon rainforest covered in the attached reading.

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    The Amazing Amazon Reading Comprehension

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    The passage is a reading comprehension quiz about the Amazon rainforest. It asks questions to assess understanding of key details from the reading like: the author's view that the Amazon is special and should be protected; that rainforests are forests that are warm and wet year-round; and that leaf-cutter ants carry leaves back to their nest to grow fungi. It also distinguishes facts from opinions and tests vocabulary like "habitat." The questions aim to evaluate the reader's comprehension of important aspects of the Amazon rainforest covered in the attached reading.

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    LEVEL U

    Quick Check The Amazing Amazon

    Name Date
    Instructions: Read each question carefully and choose the best answer.

    1. What is the author’s point of 3. Which of the following words


    view on the Amazon rainforest? means areas of land or water
    that animals or groups of animals
    A The Amazon is a special place defend and live in?
    and should be taken care of
    and protected. A habitat
    B The Amazon is the best place B equator
    on Earth for scientists to
    study plants and animals.
    C territories
    D canopy
    C The Amazon is just like many
    other habitats and is not 4. Which of the following
    that interesting. is an opinion?

    D The Amazon has many A The Amazon rainforest


    resources, and we should provides oxygen to
    use them all up. humans and animals.

    2. What is the main idea of the B The Amazon rainforest


    section titled “Rainforests”? is the most important place
    on the planet.
    A Animals that live in
    rainforests are interesting. C The Amazon rainforest is
    located close to the equator.
    B Rainforests are green
    year-round. D The Amazon rainforest has
    more plants, insects, and
    C The Amazon is the largest animals than anywhere
    rainforest in the world. else on Earth.
    D Tropical rainforests are forests
    where it is warm and rains
    a lot.

    Quick Check continued on following page


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    LEVEL U
    Quick Check (continued) The Amazing Amazon

    Name Date

    5. The Amazon is located 8. How do you think the


    in . author feels about animals
    of the rainforest?
    A South America
    B Africa A interested and curious
    C Southeast Asia B scared and nervous
    D Europe C bored and indifferent
    6. What is the effect of earthworms, D concerned and worried
    termites, fungi, and bacteria on 9. What causes many animals to live
    the rainforest floor? in the canopy of the rainforest?
    A They cause many animals to A The floor of the rainforest
    live on the rainforest floor. is too crowded.
    B They have no effect on the B The animals enjoy sunbathing.
    rainforest floor.
    C There is plenty of food.
    C They make the rainforest D There are vines to swing on.
    floor slimy and gross.
    10. Which of the following
    D They keep the rainforest is a piglike mammal found
    floor clean.
    in the Americas?
    7. What is the purpose of leaf-
    cutter ants carrying leaves
    A jaguar
    back to their nest? B peacock
    A The ants give the leaves C harpy
    to the queen for food. D peccary
    B The ants use the leaves 11. Extended Response: Why does
    to grow fungi. the author say that the Amazon
    C The ants use the leaves is a treasure? Use details from the
    to build their nests. text to support your response.

    D The ants eat the leaves when


    they run out of food.
    Quick Check continued on following page
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    Quick Check (continued) The Amazing Amazon

    Name Date

    12. Extended Response: What kinds


    of resources do you use in your
    life that come from the Amazon
    rainforest?

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    LEVEL U
    Quick Check Answer Sheet The Amazing Amazon
    Main Comprehension Skill: Author’s Point of View

    1. A Author’s Point of View

    2. D Main Idea and Details

    3. C Vocabulary

    4. B Fact or Opinion

    5. A Main Idea and Details

    6. D Cause and Effect

    7. B Make Inferences / Draw Conclusions

    8. A Author’s Point of View

    9. C Cause and Effect

    10. D Vocabulary

    11. Answers will vary but should


    express that the Amazon is
    the largest rainforest in the
    world and has more kinds of
    insects, plants, and animals
    than any other place on Earth.
    Additionally, the Amazon
    provides humans with many
    valuable resources including
    rubber, food, medicine, and
    oxygen from the plants.
    12. Answers will vary but should
    include resources listed in book
    such as bananas, chocolate,
    rubber, medicine, pineapple,
    oxygen, and so on.

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