Grade 2 ELA Practice Test: Main Topic and Key Details in Informational Text
- Main Topic and Key Details
- 10 questions
- 15 minutes
All ten questions are about one nonfiction text. Tip: the title and the first sentence of each paragraph tell you what that part is mostly about.
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Question 1
Read the text and answer questions 1-10.
How Honeybees Live
(1) Honeybees live together in a home called a hive. One hive can hold thousands of bees.
(2) Each hive has one queen bee. The queen lays the eggs. Most of the other bees are worker bees.
(3) Worker bees have many jobs. Some clean the hive. Some take care of the young bees. Others fly out to find flowers.
(4) Bees drink a sweet liquid from flowers called nectar. Back at the hive, they turn the nectar into honey. The honey is food for the bees in winter.
(5) Bees also help plants. When a bee visits a flower, a yellow powder called pollen sticks to its body. The bee carries the pollen to the next flower, and this helps the plant make seeds.
What is the main topic of the text?
Correct answer: C
Every paragraph tells something about honeybees: their hive, the queen, the workers, honey and pollen.
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Question 2
Text: How Honeybees Live (see above)
What is a hive?
Correct answer: B
Paragraph 1 says honeybees live together in a home called a hive.
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Question 3
Text: How Honeybees Live (see above)
Which bee lays the eggs?
Correct answer: D
Paragraph 2 says each hive has one queen bee and the queen lays the eggs.
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Question 4
Text: How Honeybees Live (see above)
Paragraph 3 is mostly about
Correct answer: A
Paragraph 3 starts with "Worker bees have many jobs" and then lists those jobs.
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Question 5
Text: How Honeybees Live (see above)
What is nectar?
Correct answer: D
Paragraph 4 says bees drink a sweet liquid from flowers called nectar. The yellow powder is pollen, not nectar.
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Question 6
Text: How Honeybees Live (see above)
Why do bees make honey?
Correct answer: C
Paragraph 4 says the honey is food for the bees in winter.
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Question 7
Text: How Honeybees Live (see above)
How do bees help plants?
Correct answer: B
Paragraph 5 says pollen sticks to the bee and is carried to the next flower, which helps the plant make seeds.
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Question 8
Text: How Honeybees Live (see above)
What does the title "How Honeybees Live" help the reader know?
Correct answer: A
A title tells the topic before you start reading. This title tells you the text is about the life of honeybees.
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Question 9
Text: How Honeybees Live (see above)
Which sentence is a key detail about worker bees?
Correct answer: C
Taking care of young bees is one of the worker bees' jobs in paragraph 3. The other sentences are about the queen or the hive.
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Question 10
Text: How Honeybees Live (see above)
How many queen bees does each hive have?
Correct answer: D
Paragraph 2 says each hive has one queen bee. Thousands is the number of bees in the whole hive.
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