Answer Key to A Winter's Drive and Back Roads Test prep

3. Michael does not want the border agent to know why he is going to Canada. What evidence from the passage best supports this conclusion?

Michael lies about his trip to the agent.

5. What is this story mostly about?

Michael returns to his childhood home to find his hockey cards.

1. Where is Michael driving to at the beginning of the story?

Montreal

1. Joe and Sam are on their way to which location?

Pittsburgh

3. Read the sentences: "Sam hated rushing things and insisted that they take back roads. Joe was in." Based on this information it can be concluded that

Sam and Joe are generally relaxed on road trips.

4. How does Michael most likely feel at the beginning of the trip?

nervous

6. The tone of the writing throughout the passage can be described as

relaxed and smooth

7. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below. Joe and Sam decide not to take the highway _______ they could drive through back roads.

so

5. This story is mostly about

the beautiful and interesting things to be discovered along back roads

6. Read the following sentences: "It was raining ice. He flinched every time a hard pellet hit his windshield, threatening to crack it. They were like stones, or worse, because they were frozen. He wondered how many of them would have to strike the same spot to bore a hole in the glass." As used in this sentence, what does the word "bore" mean?

to make a hole, as if with a drill

7. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below. Michael's father always told him to aim for a female border agent, _______ his mother told him to choose a male border agent.

while

2. What motivates Michael's trip to Canada in the story?

He wants to retrieve his hockey cards.

4. How do people in Dauphin Borough most likely feel about the statue?

They embrace its presence.

2. The main setting of this story is

along back roads over the course of a day