A Blast from the Past Unit Test
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Question
Use the excerpt from the text How to Build a Fossil to answer the question.
How to Build a Fossil
“The rain also turned the hillside above into mud. Some of the mud began to slide, faster and faster, down the hill. And right in the middle of breakfast, Wham! The poor iguanodon was rudely buried under a ton of mud.”
Why does the author use the word wham in the sentence?
(1 point)
Responses
to explain to the reader how mudslides work
to describe to the reader how noisy the mudslide was
to help the reader understand how unexpected the mudslide was
to describe to the reader how the iguanodon caused the mudslide