Halloween Math & Reading — Answer Key
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. A costume shop sold 7 masks each day for 9 days. How many masks were sold in all?
A) 56
B) 16
C) 72
D) 63
7 masks × 9 days = 63 masks. You can also do (7 × 10) - 7 = 70 - 7 = 63.
2. Read: "The trees stretched their bony fingers toward the cloudy sky." This sentence uses which literary device?
A) Metaphor
B) Onomatopoeia
C) Personification
D) Simile
Trees do not really have fingers or stretch — these are human traits. Giving human features to non-human things is personification.
3. There are 78 pieces of candy to share among 4 friends. What is 78 rounded to the nearest ten?
A) 70
B) 80
C) 90
D) 75
The ones digit in 78 is 8, which is 5 or greater, so you round up. That gives 80.
4. Which is the best summary of a passage about bats? "Bats are nocturnal mammals that use echolocation to find food in the dark."
A) Bats are scary animals that live in caves.
B) Bats sleep during the day and hunt at night using sound.
C) Bats eat insects and fruit all day long.
D) Bats are birds that fly at night.
This choice captures both key ideas: bats are active at night (nocturnal) and use sound (echolocation) to hunt. The other choices add wrong facts or miss the main point.
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. 6 times 8 spooky spiders equals 48 spiders.
6 × 8 = 48. You can think of it as doubling 6 × 4 = 24, then doubling again to get 48.
2. A text that gives information about a real topic is called informational text.
Informational text shares real facts about topics like animals, history, or science. It is different from fiction, which is made up.
3. Rounded to the nearest ten, 85 minus 37 is about 50.
Round 85 up to 90 and 37 down to 40. Then 90 - 40 = 50.
4. The feelings a reader gets from a story are called the mood.
Mood is the feeling a story creates in the reader, such as spooky, happy, or sad. Writers use words and setting to build mood.
5. 9 times 9 candy corns equals 81 candy corns.
9 × 9 = 81. You can use (10 × 9) - 9 = 90 - 9 = 81 to check.