Contemporary Voices and Informational Texts — Test Answers

Which excerpt from "How Should One Read a Book?” best states the author’s purpose?

Which excerpt from "Career Planning for High Schoolers" best shows that the author’s purpose is to inform the reader?

Read the graph from "Career Planning for High Schoolers." Open image in full-screen view According to the graph, what is the approximate annual mean wage for gaming managers?

Which excerpt from Tom Sawyer allows the reader to infer the time of year?

Read the passage from Tom Sawyer. "Hang the boy, can’t I never learn anything? Ain’t he played me tricks enough like that for me to be looking out for him by this time? But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can’t learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. But my goodness, he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know what's coming? He ’pears to know just how long he can torment me before I get my dander up, and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it’s all down again and I can't hit him a lick.” Based on the passage, what are the best ways to describe Tom Sawyer’s character? Choose three correct answers.

Read the passage from "Song of Myself." Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten, I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy.

Which statement best exemplifies a strong persuasive claim?

Which statement best exemplifies a strong persuasive claim?

Consider the claim. Driver’s education requirements should include increased hours spent in real driving conditions prior to licensure. Identify reasons that support this claim. Choose three correct answers.

To be a formal debate, the debate must include

Which are types of formal debates? Choose three correct answers.

Which are common elements of fantasy? Choose three correct answers.

Which type of formal debate is typically about current events or philosophy?

Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?” Then turn from your blurred and littered pages to the opening pages of some great novelist—Defoe, Jane Austen, Hardy. Now you will be better able to appreciate their mastery. If the passage were presented as a play, how would it most likely differ from its current genre?

Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?” Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. The reader can conclude that the passage comes from a(n)

Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?” The thirty-two chapters of a novel—if we consider how to read a novel first—are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more impalpable than bricks; reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing. The author’s purpose in this passage is to

What question could Selma ask herself to evaluate what went wrong?

Raj used the “Important Qualities” section of “Physicians and Surgeons” to create this chart showing which qualities he has and which he needs to improve in order to become a physician or surgeon. Open image in full-screen view

Read a list of the headings from "Physicians and Surgeons.” Education Important Qualities Training Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations To find out what kind of credentials a physician or surgeon must have, which section should the reader study?

Read the passage from "Physicians and Surgeons.” Education Most applicants to medical school have at least a bachelor's degree, and many have advanced degrees. Although no specific major is required, all students must complete undergraduate work in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and English. Students also take courses in the humanities and social sciences. Some students volunteer at local hospitals or clinics to gain experience in a healthcare setting. Lorena wants to become a surgeon. Based on the passage, what is the best procedure for her to follow in high school to help her get into a college with a pre-med bachelor’s degree program?