Quadrilaterals Pre-Assessment

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Figures are not drawn to scale.

____ 1. Find the area of a rhombus with diagonal lengths of 12 cm and 16 cm.

A. 96 cm2 C. 28 cm2

B. 192 cm2 D. 56 cm2

____ 2. What additional steps are required to calculate the area of the figure below?

D (-2, 8)

A (6, 6)

x
C (0, -1)

B (8, -3)

A. Find the length of the base and C. Find the length of one side.
the length of side .

B. Find the length of the base and D. Find the length of all four sides.
the height perpendicular to that
base.
____ 3. Find the area of the right trapezoid below.

A. 49 in2 C. 140 in2

B. 160 in2 D. 154 in2

____ 4. Find the area of the following figure:

A. 170 m2 C. 85 m2
B. 168 m2 D. 184 m2
____ 5. Find the area of the following figure:

D (-2, 8)

A (6, 6)

x
C (0, -1)

B (8, -3)

A. 34.93 units2 C. 68 units2

B. units2 D. 4624 units2

____ 6. Find the area of a rectangle with one side length of 15 m and a diagonal of 17 m.

A. 255 m2 C. 120 m2

B. 64 m2 D. 127.5 m2

____ 7. How much wood is needed to make a picture frame that is 8 inches by 10 inches?

A. 80 in. C. 18 in.

B. 36 in. D. 40 in.
____ 8. Find the perimeter of the following figure:

y
10
D (-1, 8)
8

6 A (5, 6)
4

2
B (7, 1)
–10 –8 –6 –4 –2 2 4 6 8 10 x
–2

–4

C (-2, -5) –6
–8

–10

A. 33 units C. 356 units

B. 13.09 units D. 35.56 units

____ 9. Find the perimeter of the right trapezoid below.

A. 30 inches C. 48 inches

B. 42 inches D. Cannot be determined

____ 10. You have 20 feet of fence to make a pen. What is the maximum area of that pen?

A. 24 ft2 C. 20 ft2

B. 40 ft2 D. 25 ft2
____ 11. In order to prove quadrilateral ABCD is a rectangle, what would have to be true?

A. and C. and

B. and D. and and

____ 12. Determine the most accurate name of the quadrilateral below:
y

B (-1, 5)
4

2
C (-5, 1) E (3, 1)

–6 –4 –2 2 4 x

–2
D (-1, -2)

A. Parallelogram C. Trapezoid
B. Kite D. Rhombus
____ 13. State all possible names of the quadrilateral below:

A. Parallelogram, Rectangle, Square C. Parallelogram, Rectangle,

Rhombus

B. Parallelogram, Rectangle D. Trapezoid, Rectangle

____ 14. Determine which statement is always true.

A. A kite has congruent diagonals. C. A kite has 2 pair of parallel sides.

B. A kite has perpendicular diagonals. D. A kite has diagonals that bisect

each other.

____ 15. Find the missing values for the parallelogram below:

A. x = 5, y = 146 C. x = 8.125, y = 129.3

B. x = 65, y = 115 D. Cannot be determined

____ 16. Use the properties of an isosceles trapezoid to find the measure of angle B and angle D.
and

A. and C. and

B. and D. Cannot be detemined

____ 17. Assume and . Find the measure of the four angles marked on the figure.

A. , , C. , ,
, ,

B. , , D. Cannot be determined
,

____ 18. What formulas are needed to create a coordinate proof of a parallelogram?

A. Slope formula to prove that
opposite sides are parallel
B. Distance formula to prove that
opposite sides are congruent
C. Slope formula to prove that any two
consecutive sides form a right
angle
D. Distance formula and slope formula
to prove that all sides are parallel
and congruent
____ 19. What is the sum of the interior angles of a quadrilateral?

A. 180° C. 540°

B. 360° D. Varies on the type of quadrilateral

____ 20. Using the properties of parallelgrams, find the missing values:

A. x = 4, y = 17 C. x = 17, y = 4

B. x = 42, y = 15 D. x = 16, y = 67

____ 21. Using the properties of parallelograms, find the missing values:

A. x =13 , y = 17 C. x = 1 , y = 18

B. x = 17 , y = 17 D. x = 18, y = 1
____ 22. Using the properties of rhombuses, find the measure of each angle.

A. and C. and
and and

B. and D. and
and and

____ 23. The area formula of a triangle is based on the area formula of what shape?

A. Trapezoid, since there are 2 C. Quadrilateral, since there are 180º

triangles in every trapezoid the in a triangle and 360º in a
triangle formula is half the quadrilateral.
trapezoid formula.

B. Parallelogram, since there are 2 D. Kite, since there are 4 right

triangles in every parallelogram the traingles in every kite.
triangle formula is half the area of a
parallelogram.

____ 24. The area formula of a trapezoid is based on the area formula of what shape?

A. Parallelogram, since copying a C. Quadrilateral, since they both have

trapezoid and flipping it over four sides.
creates a parallelogram.

B. Triangle, they both have in the D. Kite, since neither shape is a

parallelogram.
formula.
____ 25. Identify the first step of constructing a perpendicular bisector.

A. Use a compass to construct 2 C. Use a compass to construct 2

circles of equivalent radius that are circles of equivalent radius that are
greater than half the length of the less than half the length of the line
line segment. segment.

B. Use a straightedge to draw a D. Use a compass to mark the

perpendicular line. midpoint.