SSAT Elementary Reading Practice Questions

Why does the author say he gets up at night in the winter?

He goes to night school.
In the winter, it’s warmer at night.
He works an overnight shift in a factory
In the winter, it is still dark in the morning
His mother sleeps all day because of her job.

We can assume that the poem was not written recently because

the sky is still clear and blue
he has to dress by candlelighthe has to dress by candlelight
his parents make him go to bed early
the author can hear people in the street
there are birds on the trees outside of his window

Why does the author have to go to bed when he thinks it’s still day?

He isn’t allowed to play with the people who are still outside.
He has to get up very, very early the next morning
He has misbehaved and is put to bed early.
It is evening though not yet dark.
He has been sick.

The author is unhappy about when he goes to bed in the summer because

he isn’t tired
he wants to play
he wants to catch birds
he can’t sleep unless it’s dark
the people walking outside keep him awake

What did the king want the miller’s daughter to do?

spin the straw into gold
hand over the necklace
fill the room with straw
make the little man vanish
stop the little man from crying

The word that best describes the king is

mean
tricky
boring
nervous
sneaky

The girl was crying because she

was alone in the room
could not unlock the door
could not see the little man
wanted to keep her necklace
could not turn straw into gold

What does the word “vanished” mean?

disappeared
finished
helped
called
cried

The main idea of this passage is

people like to collect coins
the U.S. Mint makes coins with pictures
five extra 1913 Liberty Head nickels were made
the fifth 1913 Liberty Head nickel is found
coin collectors offer a lot of money for rare coins

Five cents doesn’t buy you much these days, but the 1913 Liberty Head nickel is worth a fortune. Just ask the family of George Walton.

A month after Paul Montgomery, a coin collector in New

Line 5 Hampshire, offered a one million dollar reward for the 1913 Liberty

Head nickel—one of the rarest American coins—the Walton family came forward and said that they thought they owned one.

The family had put the coin away after Walton’s death in 1962, believing the nickel was worthless. But after learning of the offer, the

family decided to see if their nickel was genuine. Experts determined it was.

The story of the Liberty Head nickel began in 1883. That’s when the U.S. Mint began producing the coins. In 1912, the mint

replaced the Liberty Head nickel with the Indian Head, or Buffalo,

But in 1913, someone—probably an employee of the U.S. Mint—illegally minted five additional Liberty Head coins.

Two of the rare 1913 nickels are now owned by coin collectors, and two others are in a museum. What happened to the fifth one remained a mystery until now.

20	“It’s been missing for so long,” said coin dealer John
	Dannreuther. “People would say there are only four, but we knew
	there were five. And there it is.”

If someone illegally made five 1913 Liberty Head nickels, they made them

for government officials
as examples for museums
to sell only to coin collectors
at the request of the U.S. Mint
without permission of the law

According to the passage, another name for the Indian Head nickel is the

1913 nickel
Walton nickel
Buffalo nickel
Liberty Head nickel
Dannreuther nickel

In the last paragraph of the passage, we can assume that John Dannreuther feels

tired
pleased
uncertain
thoughtful
disappointed

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