_ 1. What is this passage mostly about?
a. Christopher Columbus
b. a land bridge
c. the Vikings
d. discovering America
2.How did the first humans get to America?
a. By boat
b. By foot
c. By car
d. By swimming
3. According to the passage, who really discovered America?
a. Christopher Columbus who sailed to America
b. The Vikings from Norway
c. Ancient travelers that crossed a land bridge
d. Many European explorers
4. The author writes “But was America really a new land?” because
a. other European explorers had actually already found America
b. there were already people living here before the explorers
c. the explorers came from Spain, Portugal, and England
d. there was not enough food for everyone to live here
5. According to the passage, what connected Asia and North America? _.
6. Who discovered America? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. _

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.