LEVEL I

Quick Check Basketball

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

1. Which of the following sentences 4 What causes a player to score

from the book is an opinion in basketball?
about basketball?
A throwing the ball through
A In a basketball game, his/her own hoop
there are two teams.
B throwing the ball through
B People play basketball with the other team’s hoop
an orange ball and a hoop.
C throwing the ball above the
C Basketball is a fun and backboard behind the hoop
fast sport.
5. What is another word
2. Which of these events for created?
happened first?
A made
A Maya Moore made forty- B scored
eight points in one game.
C team
B Michael Jordan played
basketball for sixteen years. 6. Extended Response: Why is the
section about great basketball
C James Naismith came up with players called “Hoop Stars?”
a new game using a basket
and a ball.
3. What is the main idea of the
section “Basketball All Over?”
A Basketball is played in America
and all over the world.
B Basketball is only played
in America.
C Basketball is the most
popular sport in America.

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 LEVEL I

Quick Check Answer Sheet Basketball

1. C  Fact or Opinion
2. C  Sequence Events
3. A  Main Idea and Details
4. B  Cause and Effect
5. A Vocabulary
6. Answers will vary, but should
include that a nickname for
basketball is “hoops” since it is
played with a ball and a hoop,
so the section about famous
basketball players is called
“hoop stars.”

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