Informational
American Great Outdoors Initiative
Like the rest of America's citizens, you should do your part to protect nature.
This sentence from the passage is an example of:
A. persuasion
B. entertainment
C. clearly stated fact.
D. technical directions.
A. persuasion
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Reading
Which MOST CLOSELY identifies the conflicts of sections one and two?
A. person vs. nature and person vs. self
B. person vs. society and person vs. self
C. person vs. nature and person vs. person
D. person vs. self and person vs. God/fate
A. person vs. nature and person vs. self
2 Log buildings, because of their distinct material, physical structure, and sometimes their architectural design, can develop their own unique deterioration problems. The information presented here is intended to convey the range of appropriate preservation techniques available. It does not, however, detail how to perform these treatments; this work should be left to professionals experienced in the preservation of historic log buildings.
In paragraph two, the word "deterioration" most nearly means
A. a state of constant improvement.
B. becoming worse or falling into disrepair.
C. becoming very confused by overwhelming data.
D. an expensive and sometimes dangerous architecture.
B. becoming worse or falling into disrepair.
Support for Book Bans
According to "Support for Book Bans," why should legislation around book bans not be viewed as the removal of books?
A. The legislative efforts are focused on preventing future books from entering the classroom, not removing existing books.
B. Most of the legislative efforts do not focus on book removal but instead require that districts get parent consent for certain books.
C. Lawmakers provide lists of books that they suggest libraries remove, but this removal is not really a ban because it is not required.
D. The most recent legislation is more concerned with limiting who can check out certain books, rather than removing them altogether.
B. Most of the legislative efforts do not focus on book removal but instead require that districts get parent consent for certain books.
On Fire with Satire Reading
What rhetorical effect is achieved by Jasmine's line, "That's exactly what I thought you'd say,"?
A. satire
B. situational irony
C. dramatic irony
D. verbal irony
d. Verbal Irony
The Preservation of Historic Logs Reading
It can be inferred from the passage that
A. log cabins are not actually made out of real logs.
B. there is very little interest in log cabin construction or its history.
C. log cabin construction was not a popular type of construction in America.
D. people often use the terms "log cabin" and "log house" in a conflated way.
D. people often use the terms "log cabin" and "log house" in a conflated way.
Dracula by Bram Stoker Reading
Which sentence from the passage best supports the assertion that the driver had some power over the wolves?
A. "Just then a heavy cloud passed across the face of the moon, so that we were again in darkness."
B. "This startled me, but as the effect was only momentary, I took it that my eyes deceived me straining through the darkness."
C. "As he swept his long arms, as though brushing aside some impalpable obstacle, the wolves fell back and back further still."
D. "It grew colder and colder still, and fine, powdery snow began to fall, so that soon we and all around us were covered with a white blanket."
C. "As he swept his long arms, as though brushing aside some impalpable obstacle, the wolves fell back and back further still."
Which best restates the meaning of the word "fidelity" as it is used in the second paragraph of this passage?
(2) As a child, I was obsessed with the study of birds, known as ornithology. I spent every opportunity observing the birds that lived around my family’s home. Ornithology drew me in like a moth to a flame. After completing high school, I was accepted at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology where I became involved in species conservation. I spent several years color banding a wide variety of birds in California with the Fish and Wildlife Service. The banding systems allowed us to study the birds’ annual survivorship, fidelity to territory and mate, and migratory status. Years later, an acquaintance of mine from Cornell offered me a position on a team that works for the conservation of Peregrine Falcons. I’ve been fascinated by these birds ever since.
A. dissatisfaction
B. loyalty
C. protectiveness
D. rejection
B. Loyalty
She Walks in Beauty Poem
Which statement best expresses the theme of this poem?
Responses
A. Beauty is magnified by innocence.
B. Beauty is often mistaken for innocence.
C. Innocence and beauty can't always coexist.
D. Beauty and innocence occupy separate spheres.
A. Beauty is magnified by innocence
On Fire with Satire
What is ironic about Jasmine's line, "What awesome weather we're having," in the passage?
A. Jasmine is actually saying that the weather is horrible.
B. Jasmine is expressing how much she loves thunderstorms.
C. Jasmines is exaggerating her love of thunderstorms.
D. Jasmine is actually saying that the weather is great.
A. Jasmine is actually saying that the weather is horrible.
Acceptance Reading
Which sentence BEST analyzes the phrase "I got into college"? Note: Anthony says the phrase two times.
A. When Anthony says it the first time, his sarcasm reveals that he does NOT think the letter is a college acceptance.
B. When Anthony says it the first time, his sarcasm reveals that he secretly expected an acceptance to a college all along.
C. When Anthony says it the second time, his disbelief suggests that his sister is lying, and he thinks she is being cruel to him.
D. When Anthony says it the second time, his disbelief is just an act to hide that he secretly expected a college acceptance all along.
A. When Anthony says it the first time, his sarcasm reveals that he does NOT think the letter is a college acceptance.
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Which best describes the interaction between the two strangers in this passage?
A. The black-haired stranger is amused by the other man's odd behavior and improper dress for a Russian winter.
B. The black-haired stranger hopes to make a powerful and lucrative business deal with this newly arrived man to Russia.
C. The black-haired stranger's heart is filled with compassion for the other man on the train because he suffers from epilepsy.
D. The black-haired character is enraged to find an expatriate Russian has the nerve to return to his homeland after being abroad.
A. The black-haired stranger is amused by the other man's odd behavior and improper dress for a Russian winter.
Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog Reading
Based on his word choice, what role does the narrator serve in this passage?
Responses
A. His word choice is didactic; therefore, he serves as a mentor in this passage.
B. His word choice is humorous; therefore, he serves as comic relief for this passage.
C. His word choice is scholarly; therefore, he serves as a wise leader in this passage.
D. His word choice is venomous; therefore, he serves as an evil character in this passage.
B. His word choice is humorous; therefore, he serves as comic relief for this passage
America's Great Outdoors Initiative
Which best describes the author's point of view or purpose in this passage?
A. The author believes that the Great Outdoor Initiative is probably not going to work and is doomed to fail.
B. The author believes the Great Outdoor Initiative can help reduce pollution and increase natural preservation.
C. The author believes that the Great Outdoor Initiative is a powerful example of government overreach into private freedoms.
D. The author believes that the Great Outdoor Initiative is a good program, but that it was also cost too much money in the end.
B. The author believes the Great Outdoor Initiative can help reduce pollution and increase natural preservation.
A Day at the Beach Reading
What lesson is taught by this story?
A. Friendship is more important than anything.
B. A beach vacation may not be as much fun as it appears.
C. Boys and girls are different in some ways, and alike in other ways.
D. Lessons learned at school can have practical, real-life applications.
D. Lessons learned at school can have practical, real-life applications.
America's Great Outdoors Initiative Reading
Which is an emotional appeal FOR increasing the protection of America's outdoor resources?
A. Pollution levels are increasing. Threats to nature are rising.
B. The creation of wildlife corridors would allow wild animals to move more freely through outdoor spaces.
C. To help save America's natural beauty, President Barack Obama has created America's Great Outdoors Initiative.
D. Imagine the sorrow your children may feel in the future when they want to see a wild animal and none are left.
D. Imagine the sorrow your children may feel in the future when they want to see a wild animal and none are left.
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
Which sentence from the passage best demonstrates that the black-haired stranger has an odd sense of humor?
A. His interlocutor burst out laughing several times at his answers; and more than ever, when to the question, “whether he had been cured?” the patient replied:“No, they did not cure me.”
B. Some of the passengers by this particular train were returning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various occupations and degrees, picked up at the different stations nearer town.
C. Replying to them, he made known to the inquirer that he certainly had been long absent from Russia, more than four years; that he had been sent abroad for his health; that he had suffered from some strange nervous malady—a kind of epilepsy, with convulsive spasms.
D. His nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical—it might almost be called a malicious—smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atoned for a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face.
A. His interlocutor burst out laughing several times at his answers; and more than ever, when to the question, “whether he had been cured?” the patient replied:“No, they did not cure me.”
She Walks in Beauty
George Gordon Byron
SHE walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light5
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;10
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,15
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
What is emphasized by the word "gaudy" to describe "day" in stanza one?
A. the garishness of day
B. the beauty of the day
C. the length of the day
D. the happiness of day
A. the garishness of day
The Raven (excerpt)
Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping - rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
Only this and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore-
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-
Nameless here for evermore.
"And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
What ideas are suggested by this line (second line of the second stanza)?
A. The fire's flames are symbolic of the love in his heart.
B. The smothering of the flames represents the smothering of the love he once felt for Lenore.
C. The separation of the embers represents a contrast to the speaker's feeling of connection to his beloved.
D. The dying of the fire is making the speaker think of the death of Lenore, and the possible appearance of her ghost.
D. The dying of the fire is making the speaker think of the death of Lenore, and the possible appearance of her ghost.
A Day at the Beach Reading
Which paragraph best summarizes this passage?
A. Lola and Emme had not brought sandals with them to the beach. When the clouds parted, and the sun rose high in the sky, the sand became very hot. The two girls went to the water to cool off, and then ran through the hot sand as fast as they could to avoid burning their feet.
B. When Emma went with Lola and her family to the beach, they had to drive a long way. They did not reach the beach until it was already dark. They unpacked their stuff at the hotel, and then they went to sleep so they would have lots of energy for their first day at the beach.
C. Lola invited her friend Emma to come to the beach with her family. After a long drive, they spent their first day in the sunshine of the beach having fun. They also helped Lola's brothers, Jake and Matt, save their sandcastle from being overrun by the ocean using irrigation skills they'd learned about in their science classes.
D. On their first day at the beach, Lola and Emma—who were accompanied by Lola's parents and her young brothers—gathered their towels, sunscreen, and umbrellas and walked to the beach. After arriving, Lola and Emma put up their umbrellas and rolled out their towels. The clouds were out at first, but then they parted and let in the sun.
C. Lola invited her friend Emma to come to the beach with her family. After a long drive, they spent their first day in the sunshine of the beach having fun. They also helped Lola's brothers, Jake and Matt, save their sandcastle from being overrun by the ocean using irrigation skills they'd learned about in their science classes.
The Importance of Volunteering Reading
This article uses many appeals to persuade readers to volunteer more. Which is an appeal to ethics?
A. Volunteering is a phenomenal addition to your college resume.
B. Volunteering allows you to get to know your community and its leaders better.
C. Volunteering can be very entertaining and give you lots of social interaction.
D. Volunteering helps improve both your life and the lives of those in society who have the greatest need.
D. Volunteering helps improve both your life and the lives of those in society who have the greatest need.
She Walks in Beauty Poem
Which line from the poem reflects that the woman's beauty is not just external?
A. Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
B. And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes
C. SHE walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
D. One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
E. Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
E. Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
Eros Turannos
Edwin Arlington Robinson
She fears him, and will always ask
What fated her to choose him;
She meets in his engaging mask
All reasons to refuse him;
But what she meets and what she fears 5
Are less than are the downward years,
Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
Of age, were she to lose him.
Between a blurred sagacity
That once had power to sound him, 10
And Love, that will not let him be
The Judas that she found him,
Her pride assuages her almost,
As if it were alone the cost. --
He sees that he will not be lost, 15
And waits and looks around him.
A sense of ocean and old trees
Envelops and allures him;
Tradition, touching all he sees,
Beguiles and reassures him; 20
And all her doubts of what he says
Are dimmed of what she knows of days --
Till even prejudice delays
And fades, and she secures him.
The falling leaf inaugurates 25
The reign of her confusion;
The pounding wave reverberates
The dirge of her illusion;
And home, where passion lived and died,
Becomes a place where she can hide, 30
While all the town and harbor side
Vibrate with her seclusion.
We tell you, tapping on our brows,
The story as it should be, --
As if the story of a house 35
Were told, or ever could be;
We'll have no kindly veil between
Her visions and those we have seen, --
As if we guessed what hers have been,
Or what they are or would be. 40
Meanwhile we do no harm; for they
That with a god have striven,
Not hearing much of what we say,
Take what the god has given;
Though like waves breaking it may be, 45
Or like a changed familiar tree,
Or like a stairway to the sea
Where down the blind are driven
The title ‘Eros Turannos’ comes from two Latin words. Given the purpose and tone of the poem, what is the MOST accurate paraphrase for the title Eros Turranos?
A. Love is Trying Hard
B. Love is an Error
C. Love is Truthful
D. Love is a Tyrant
D. Love is a Tyrant
America's Great Outdoors Initiative
How do the author’s word choices in section one reflect the author’s perspective?
A. The author's word choices in section one create an optimistic, energetic tone to introduce his topic.
B. The author's word choices in section one emphasize that he believes his topic is serious and necessary.
C. The author's word choices in section one suggest that he believes he has identified the only solution to a serious issue.
D. The author's word choices in section one focus readers' attention on a solution that will be logical and easy to implement.
B. The author's word choices in section one emphasize that he believes his topic is serious and necessary.
Opposition for Book Bans
According to "Opposition to Book Bans," how are recent book bans related to the historical practice of book removal?
A. Historically, books are removed individuals and school officials because they no longer represent the students of the time period..
B. There have not been many instances of broad book removal throughout history, which makes current legislation more unprecedented.
C. The book bans described are linked to historically oppressive and authoritarian regimes that wanted to censor what all people read.
D. History is on the side of book bans and book removal because it often helps to prevent violent revolutions and animosity between citizens.
C. The book bans described are linked to historically oppressive and authoritarian regimes that wanted to censor what all people read.