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100
The ______ _______ is the author's purpose, or what a text is about
What is the Main Idea?
100
On the TASC exam, an essay in which you try to convince someone that one side of an issue is right is called an...
What is an Argumentative Essay?
100
The type of government responsible for running our entire country.
What is the Federal Government?
100
Based on this passage, what does CONTEXT mean? The decision was taken within the context of planned cuts in spending.
What are the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed?
100
The length of time expressed by an EON in geology?
What is a billion years?
200
When you draw conclusions about something that was not specifically said by the author using evidence from the text, this is called...
What is Inference?
200
All essays should be organized into multiple paragraphs. The different types of paragraphs include...
What are the Introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion?
200
How do we organize our federal government, to avoid giving one person or group too much power.
What are the three branches?
200
Based on this passage, what might RATIONALE mean? "Instead of making doctors provide 26 separate types of information and seven attachments, the new form asks for only eight elements of information, one of which requires the patient’s clinical history and the doctor’s rationale for wanting to use the experimental drug, and a single attachment."
What are the reasons for a particular decision or course of action?
200
The length of time it takes for light from the Sun to reach Earth?
What are approximately eight minutes (or eight minutes and 20 seconds to be precise)?
300
What can we infer from this passage? "The police are trying to determine whether they can retrieve a 'black box”' device from the livery cab that might have recorded speed and direction at the time of impact."
What is "there was a car accident?"
300
This introduces what is the paragraph's main idea.
What is a Topic Sentence?
300
The branch of government that contains the President, Vice President, and cabinet and is responsible for enforcing laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
300
Based on this passage, what might UNPRECEDENTED mean? "Mr. Comey’s speech was unprecedented for an F.B.I. director. Previous directors have limited their public comments about race to civil rights investigations, like those of murders committed by the Ku Klux Klan and how the bureau wiretapped the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."
What is something never done or seen before?
300
The number of time zones in the world.
What are 24?
400
What problem can we infer this report may deal with? "The report, which appeared in the journal Science on Thursday, is the most ambitious effort yet to estimate how much plastic debris ends up in the sea."
What is "Pollution of our environment?"
400
A sentence at the end of an introductory paragraph in which a writer states what their essay is going to prove.
What is a Thesis Statement?
400
The branch of government is responsible for making laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
400
Based on this passage, what might ADVERSE mean? "Mr. Vavilov was introduced as a brave individual who had toiled for years under adverse circumstances in Russia, a onetime deputy finance minister and former proprietor of an oil company. His talk, delivered in Russian, focused on the intricacies of the energy markets."
What is bad or negative?
400
The theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into gliding plates over the mantle.
What is Plate Tectonics?
500
What can we infer about a situation involving a well-known television personality from this passage? "The punishment on Tuesday was a shocking fall from grace for Williams, who hosted America’s top-rated newscast for a decade and helped lead it to numerous Emmy and Peabody journalism awards."
What is "A news anchor got caught doing something wrong?"
500
A grammatical rule the first letter in every sentence has in common.
What is a capital letter?
500
The branch of government that interprets laws in order to make sure that they are constitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
500
Based on this passage, what might IMMENSELY mean? The newspaper article noted that judging from the size of the crowd and the rapturous applause, the congressman was immensely popular.
What is extremely, or very?
500
The number of colors in a rainbow?
What is seven? The colors of a rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The acronym ROYGBIV is used to remember all of the colors.
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