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Prepositions Test
With Cave People...

Reading Level 2

Part One | Identifying Prepositions

Directions: Read each sentence. Determine which of your answer choices is being used as a preposition. Circle your response.

1. 	Grock was making a new club from an animal bone.	

a)	an	b)	from	
c)	was	d)	new	

2. 	Oog dragged the cooked animal carcass into his cave.	

a)	his	b)	the	
c)	cave	d)	into	

3. 	Unk saw a saber-toothed tiger stalking bison across the plain.	

a)	plain	b)	across	
c)	a	d)	watched	

4. 	Borg dropped large rocks on the bear that was investigating Borg's cave.	

a)	on	b)	that	
c)	was	d)	the	

5. 	Uma wrapped her hair around a mastodon's thighbone.	

a)	her	b)	a	
c)	around	d)	thigh	

6. 	Oog was hunting with Grock when wolves attacked the villagers.	

a)	was	b)	village	
c)	the	d)	with	

7. 	Unk hid behind the bush and awaited the mastodons.	

a)	and	b)	the	
c)	hid	d)	behind	

8. 	Borg would not face the saber-toothed tiger without his spiked club.	

a)	would	b)	not	
c)	without	d)	his	

9. 	Uma tightly swaddled her baby in a fur.	

a)	a	b)	in	
c)	her	d)	fur	

10. 	Oog used primitive tools to make his stone wheels.	

a)	to	b)	used	
c)	his	d)	wheels	

11. 	Grock can make a fire by rubbing two sticks together.	

a)	two	b)	can	
c)	together	d)	by	

Part Two | Prepositional Phrases

Directions: Read each sentence. Identify the complete prepositional phrase. Circle your response.

12. 	Uma shuddered when she heard the wolves howling at the moon.	

a)	the moon	b)	at the moon	
c)	howling at the moon	d)	wolves howling at the moon	

13. 	Unk was not afraid of wolves but he still avoided them.	

a)	of wolves	b)	avoided them	
c)	still avoided them	d)	of wolves but he still avoided them	

14. 	Oog was building a shelter with fallen tree branches.	

a)	with fallen tree branches	b)	shelter with fallen tree branches	
c)	a shelter with fallen tree branches	d)	building a shelter with fallen tree branches	

15. 	Grock was disappointed to learn that he couldn't start a fire with wet wood.	

a)	with wet wood	b)	fire with wet wood	
c)	a fire with wet wood	d)	start a fire with wet wood	

16. 	Unk was very tired from gathering large rocks.	

a)	gathering large rocks	b)	from gathering large rocks	
c)	tired from gathering large rocks	d)	was very tired from gathering large rocks	

17. 	Borg and Uma rested inside the cave until the terrible storm passed.	

a)	until the terrible storm	b)	until the terrible storm passed	
c)	inside the cave	d)	inside the cave until	

18. 	Grock was the fastest sprinter in his tribe.	

a)	his tribe	b)	in his tribe	
c)	the fastest sprinter in his tribe	d)	was the fastest sprinter in his tribe	

19. 	Borg hunted the elusive white wolf under the moonlight.	

a)	the moonlight	b)	white wolf under the moonlight	
c)	the elusive white wolf under the moonlight	d)	under the moonlight	

20. 	Uma carried her baby across the marshland.	

a)	her baby across	b)	across the marshland	
c)	baby across the marshland	d)	her baby across the marshland	

21. 	Oog threw a rock at the pelican but he missed.	

a)	at the pelican	b)	he missed	
c)	but he missed	d)	at the pelican but he missed	

22. 	Unk used a sharpened seashell for a spearhead.	

a)	for a spearhead	b)	seashell for a spearhead	
c)	used a sharpened seashell	d)	used a sharpened seashell for a spearhead	

23. 	Grock ran up the foothill so he could watch the saber-toothed cats forage.	

a)	could watch the saber-toothed cats	b)	up the foothill so he could watch	
c)	up the foothill so	d)	up the foothill