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Prepositions Test
With Cave People...

Reading Level 3

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 fashioning a new club from an animal bone.	

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5. 	Uma wrapped her matted hair around a freshly cleaned mastodon thighbone.	

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

6. 	Oog was hunting with Grock when wolves invaded the village and attacked the elders.	

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

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

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

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

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

9. 	Uma tightly swaddled her newborn baby in a fur.	

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

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

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

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

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 hungrily at the moon.	

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

13. 	Unk was not afraid of wolves but he avoided them when it was possible.	

a)	of wolves	b)	was possible	
c)	it was possible	d)	of wolves but he avoided them	

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

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

15. 	Grock was disappointed to discover 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 exhausted from collecting large rocks.	

a)	collecting large rocks	b)	from collecting large rocks	
c)	exhausted from collecting large rocks	d)	was exhausted from collecting large rocks	

17. 	Borg and Uma recovered inside the cave until the terrible tempest passed.	

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

18. 	Grock was unquestionably the fastest sprinter in his tribe.	

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

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

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

20. 	Uma carried her baby across the treacherous marshland.	

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

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

a)	at the pelican	b)	he narrowly missed	
c)	but he narrowly missed	d)	at the pelican but he narrowly 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 butte so he could observe the predators.	

a)	could observe the predators	b)	up the butte so he could observe	
c)	up the butte so	d)	up the butte