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    LEVEL L

    Quick Check Ghost Towns

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

    1. Which of the following is not 4. What caused people to leave


    a reason for people to leave a town in an African desert?
    a town?
    A Whales became hard to find.
    A running out of resources B Gold became hard to find.
    B no longer finding work C Diamonds became hard
    C natural disasters to find.
    D too many resources D Silver became hard to find.
    2. What do all ghost towns have 5. What is a resource?
    in common?
    A a rare, precious stone that
    A They are filled with animals. is prized for its beauty
    B They are lonely places. B a dangerous and powerful
    type of energy
    C They are dangerous
    for people. C a distant or isolated place
    D They are too cold to survive. D a supply of something
    valuable or very useful
    3. What is the main idea
    of this book? 6. Which of these events happened
    first in the history of a town
    A Ghost towns are empty places in Japan?
    where people once lived.
    B Ghost towns are haunted A Harmful radiation filled
    places with many ghosts. the air.

    C Ghost towns are places with B Huge waves hit a nuclear


    many people and animals. power plant.

    D Ghost towns are old places C Thousands of people had


    that have been empty to move away.
    for centuries. D A large earthquake occurred
    off the coast of Japan.

    Quick Check continued on following page


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    LEVEL L
    Quick Check (continued) Ghost Towns

    Name Date

    7. What caused a town in Argentina 10. Read this sentence: In 1908,


    to become a ghost town? a diamond was found in a desert
    in Africa. What is a diamond?
    A a huge flood
    B an earthquake A a rare and precious stone
    C a fire B a supply of something
    valuable
    D a volcanic eruption
    C a large, destructive
    8. Which of the following is ocean wave
    a fact about ghost towns?
    D a new place for people to live
    A They are all created 11. Extended Response: Choose two
    the same way.
    ghost towns from the book. Do
    B They are all created you think they will ever become
    by natural disasters. regular towns again? Why or why
    C They are created in not? Give specific examples to
    many different ways. support your answer.
    D They are all spooky and
    haunted by ghosts.
    9. What caused a village in Italy
    to become a ghost town?
    A a drought
    B earthquakes and landslides
    C an underground fire
    D a loss of gold

    © Learning A–Z All rights reserved. www.readinga-z.com


    LEVEL L
    Quick Check Answer Sheet Ghost Towns
    Main Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect

    1. D Main Idea and Details

    2. B Compare and Contrast

    3. A Main Idea and Details

    4. C Cause and Effect

    5. D Vocabulary

    6. D Sequence Events

    7. A Cause and Effect

    8. C Fact or Opinion

    9. B Cause and Effect

    10. A Vocabulary

    11. Answers will vary but should


    include specific examples from
    the book of two ghosts towns
    and sound reasoning.

    © Learning A–Z All rights reserved. www.readinga-z.com

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