Free Grade 4 NY State Test Practice Questions

Read this, then answer the questions about it.

[1] Daniela had counted the measures eleven times, and every time she got the same answer. [2] Her solo started at measure thirty-three, and she was not going to be ready for it.

[3] It was eight measures long. [4] Eight measures is nothing. [5] It is less than fifteen seconds. [6] But it was the only part of the whole spring concert where the rest of the band went quiet and one clarinet carried the tune alone, and Mr. Adeyemi had given it to her in October, back when May had seemed like a rumor.

[7] Now it was the second week of May.

[8] The trouble was measure thirty-six. [9] There was a jump in it, from a low note to a high one, and something in her fingers refused to make the trip cleanly. [10] She could play it slowly. [11] She could play it perfectly at home in her bedroom with the door shut. [12] But at full speed, with the band around her, it came out cracked and thin, like a voice that had been shouting.

[13] "Again," said Mr. Adeyemi, and the band played the whole piece again, and measure thirty-six came out cracked and thin, and Daniela felt her ears go hot.

[14] After rehearsal she stayed to pack up slowly, hoping everyone would leave first. [15] Mr. Adeyemi was stacking chairs at the front of the room.

[16] "You are practicing it wrong," he said, without looking up.

[17] "I practice it every night."

[18] "I believe you. [19] You are practicing the whole piece every night. [20] By the time you arrive at measure thirty-six you have already played thirty-five measures. [21] Your hands are warm and your head is somewhere in the middle of the music." [22] He set a chair down. [23] "Tomorrow, do not play the piece. [24] Play measure thirty-six. [25] Play the jump, cold, twenty times. [26] Then stop."

[27] "That's it?"

[28] "That is it. [29] You do not have a music problem. [30] You have one jump, and you have been hiding it inside a whole song where it is comfortable."

[31] It felt like the least satisfying advice she had ever been given. [32] It also took four minutes a night instead of forty, which made her suspicious of it.

[33] She did it anyway. [34] Cold, twenty times, no warm-up, no run-up. [35] The first night it was awful. [36] The fourth night it was awful nine times out of twenty. [37] By the second week she noticed she had stopped bracing herself before the jump, which she had not realized she had been doing.

[38] At the concert she did not think about measure thirty-six at all until she was inside it. [39] Then it was already behind her, and the band came back in around her like water closing over a stone.

[40] Afterward her father asked her which part had been the hardest, and Daniela had to think about it for a moment before she answered.

[41] "None of it," she said, and was surprised to find that this was true.

Read this, then answer the questions about it.

[1] Daniela had counted the measures eleven times, and every time she got the same answer. [2] Her solo started at measure thirty-three, and she was not going to be ready for it.

[3] It was eight measures long. [4] Eight measures is nothing. [5] It is less than fifteen seconds. [6] But it was the only part of the whole spring concert where the rest of the band went quiet and one clarinet carried the tune alone, and Mr. Adeyemi had given it to her in October, back when May had seemed like a rumor.

[7] Now it was the second week of May.

[8] The trouble was measure thirty-six. [9] There was a jump in it, from a low note to a high one, and something in her fingers refused to make the trip cleanly. [10] She could play it slowly. [11] She could play it perfectly at home in her bedroom with the door shut. [12] But at full speed, with the band around her, it came out cracked and thin, like a voice that had been shouting.

[13] "Again," said Mr. Adeyemi, and the band played the whole piece again, and measure thirty-six came out cracked and thin, and Daniela felt her ears go hot.

[14] After rehearsal she stayed to pack up slowly, hoping everyone would leave first. [15] Mr. Adeyemi was stacking chairs at the front of the room.

[16] "You are practicing it wrong," he said, without looking up.

[17] "I practice it every night."

[18] "I believe you. [19] You are practicing the whole piece every night. [20] By the time you arrive at measure thirty-six you have already played thirty-five measures. [21] Your hands are warm and your head is somewhere in the middle of the music." [22] He set a chair down. [23] "Tomorrow, do not play the piece. [24] Play measure thirty-six. [25] Play the jump, cold, twenty times. [26] Then stop."

[27] "That's it?"

[28] "That is it. [29] You do not have a music problem. [30] You have one jump, and you have been hiding it inside a whole song where it is comfortable."

[31] It felt like the least satisfying advice she had ever been given. [32] It also took four minutes a night instead of forty, which made her suspicious of it.

[33] She did it anyway. [34] Cold, twenty times, no warm-up, no run-up. [35] The first night it was awful. [36] The fourth night it was awful nine times out of twenty. [37] By the second week she noticed she had stopped bracing herself before the jump, which she had not realized she had been doing.

[38] At the concert she did not think about measure thirty-six at all until she was inside it. [39] Then it was already behind her, and the band came back in around her like water closing over a stone.

[40] Afterward her father asked her which part had been the hardest, and Daniela had to think about it for a moment before she answered.

[41] "None of it," she said, and was surprised to find that this was true.

Read this, then answer the questions about it.

[1] Daniela had counted the measures eleven times, and every time she got the same answer. [2] Her solo started at measure thirty-three, and she was not going to be ready for it.

[3] It was eight measures long. [4] Eight measures is nothing. [5] It is less than fifteen seconds. [6] But it was the only part of the whole spring concert where the rest of the band went quiet and one clarinet carried the tune alone, and Mr. Adeyemi had given it to her in October, back when May had seemed like a rumor.

[7] Now it was the second week of May.

[8] The trouble was measure thirty-six. [9] There was a jump in it, from a low note to a high one, and something in her fingers refused to make the trip cleanly. [10] She could play it slowly. [11] She could play it perfectly at home in her bedroom with the door shut. [12] But at full speed, with the band around her, it came out cracked and thin, like a voice that had been shouting.

[13] "Again," said Mr. Adeyemi, and the band played the whole piece again, and measure thirty-six came out cracked and thin, and Daniela felt her ears go hot.

[14] After rehearsal she stayed to pack up slowly, hoping everyone would leave first. [15] Mr. Adeyemi was stacking chairs at the front of the room.

[16] "You are practicing it wrong," he said, without looking up.

[17] "I practice it every night."

[18] "I believe you. [19] You are practicing the whole piece every night. [20] By the time you arrive at measure thirty-six you have already played thirty-five measures. [21] Your hands are warm and your head is somewhere in the middle of the music." [22] He set a chair down. [23] "Tomorrow, do not play the piece. [24] Play measure thirty-six. [25] Play the jump, cold, twenty times. [26] Then stop."

[27] "That's it?"

[28] "That is it. [29] You do not have a music problem. [30] You have one jump, and you have been hiding it inside a whole song where it is comfortable."

[31] It felt like the least satisfying advice she had ever been given. [32] It also took four minutes a night instead of forty, which made her suspicious of it.

[33] She did it anyway. [34] Cold, twenty times, no warm-up, no run-up. [35] The first night it was awful. [36] The fourth night it was awful nine times out of twenty. [37] By the second week she noticed she had stopped bracing herself before the jump, which she had not realized she had been doing.

[38] At the concert she did not think about measure thirty-six at all until she was inside it. [39] Then it was already behind her, and the band came back in around her like water closing over a stone.

[40] Afterward her father asked her which part had been the hardest, and Daniela had to think about it for a moment before she answered.

[41] "None of it," she said, and was surprised to find that this was true.