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Arts and Crafts: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Colors - Read Colors (Questions)

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Read the Colors aims to help elementary school children recognize the names of colors and encourages them to use them as adjectives in their writing. This task will also expand their vocabulary, English language and all-round literacy.

There are many colors in the world. How many colors do you think you know? Test your knowledge on colors.

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1. Which color comes next in the rainbow song: red, yellow, pink, green, purple and ....
[ ] orange
[ ] green
[ ] beige
[ ] indigo
2. Which of these is not a color in the traffic lights?
[ ] green
[ ] red
[ ] pink
[ ] amber
3. What color is this?
[ ] red
[ ] blue
[ ] purple
[ ] orange
4. What color is this?
[ ] orangutang
[ ] peach
[ ] yellow
[ ] orange
5. What color is this?
[ ] blew
[ ] blue
[ ] brown
[ ] beige
6. Which of these words is not a color?
[ ] beige
[ ] cream
[ ] wood
[ ] brown
7. What color is this?
[ ] purple
[ ] pink
[ ] plum
[ ] peach
8. Which of these words describes a fruit and a color?
[ ] red
[ ] plum
[ ] yellow
[ ] green
9. Which of these words describes a fruit and a color?
[ ] green
[ ] beige
[ ] peach
[ ] amber
10. Which of these words is not a color?
[ ] gold
[ ] silver
[ ] square
[ ] black
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Arts and Crafts: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Colors - Read Colors (Answers)
1. Which color comes next in the rainbow song: red, yellow, pink, green, purple and ....
[x] orange
[ ] green
[ ] beige
[ ] indigo
The song goes: red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue. I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too!
2. Which of these is not a color in the traffic lights?
[ ] green
[ ] red
[x] pink
[ ] amber
Amber is also the name of a precious stone that is amber in color.
3. What color is this?
[ ] red
[ ] blue
[x] purple
[ ] orange
Carrots were once purple!
4. What color is this?
[ ] orangutang
[ ] peach
[ ] yellow
[x] orange
Orange is the color and name of a fruit. Carrots are now orange and have been since the 16th Century.
5. What color is this?
[ ] blew
[x] blue
[ ] brown
[ ] beige
In Rome, the public servants would wear blue.
6. Which of these words is not a color?
[ ] beige
[ ] cream
[x] wood
[ ] brown
We could say the outside bark is brown and inside it is beige or cream colored.
7. What color is this?
[ ] purple
[x] pink
[ ] plum
[ ] peach
People wear pink ribbons to show their support for breast cancer and help raise money for that charity.
8. Which of these words describes a fruit and a color?
[ ] red
[x] plum
[ ] yellow
[ ] green
There are a few fruits that have the same name as a color, or a few colors that have the same name as a fruit!
9. Which of these words describes a fruit and a color?
[ ] green
[ ] beige
[x] peach
[ ] amber
You can describe the sky as peach or a person's cheeks as peach.
10. Which of these words is not a color?
[ ] gold
[ ] silver
[x] square
[ ] black
There are so many ways to describe a color, so next time you say somebody opened the door, say they opened the huge golden door, or the bright pink door.