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Grade 5 Curriculum Quiz

Are you as smart as your 5th grader? Take this quiz and find out what she’ll be learning this year. Questions are based on curriculum standards from a selection of school districts across the country.

1. Choose the correct statement below:

a. “It’s” is a contraction for “it is” and also is a possessive pronoun.
b. “Its” is a contraction for “it is” and also is a possessive pronoun.
c. “Its” is a contraction for “it is,” and “it’s” is a possessive pronoun.
d. “It’s” is a contraction for “it is,” and “its” is a possessive pronoun.

2. According to the Dewey Decimal System, how would you classify a nonfiction book about mathematics that was written by a person named Lewis McCaskill?
a. It should go in the 700s group, followed by the letters McC.
b. It should go in the 700s group, followed by the letters Lew.
c. It should go in the 000s group, followed by the letters Lew.
d. It should go in the 000s group, followed by the letters McC.

3. When Forrest Gump says “Life is like a box of chocolates,” he is using the literary device of:
a. metaphor
b. imagery
c. simile
d. symbolism

4. Which of these is an example of a prefix?
a. “great-” in “great-grandfather”
b. “inter-” in “international”
c. “-tion” in “conservation”
d.“-round” in “merry-go-round”

5. Pick the word that is NOT a conjunction.
a. and
b. on
c. so
d. for

6. 1/6 + 3/8 = ________ .
a. 13/24
b. 2/7
c. 3/4
d. 1/2

7. Find the median of the data set {17, 4, 6, 13, 9}.
a. 6
b. 13
c. 9
d. 17

8. What is the degree of the angle marked x in this diagram?

a. 76°
b. 232°
c. 90°
d. 52°

9. If you divide 1,674 by 37, how much is the remainder?
a. 9
b. 8
c. 17
d. 4

The chart below shows how long each of four students spent swimming laps, and how far they swam in that time. Looking at the chart, can you tell which student: