Unit Test — Cumulative exam Answers

Which of Cyril’s actions does Saki exaggerate in "The Storyteller” to create satire? Select three options.disobeying his auntasking questions about everythingtalking back to his auntencouraging the bachelor to tell a storycommenting on the two stories he is told

Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice” by Julia Alvarez.During my early teen years in this country, I knew very little about what was actually going on in the Dominican Republic. Whenever Ia situación on the island came up, my parents spoke in hushed voices. In December 1960, four months after our arrival, Time magazine reported the murder of the three Mirabal sisters, who along with their husbands had started the national underground Dominican Republic. My parents confiscated the magazine. To our many questions about what was going on, my mother always had the ready answer, "En boca cerrada no entran moscas.” No flies fly into a closed mouth. Later, I found out that this very saying had been scratched on the lintel of the entrance of the SIM's torture center at La Cuarenta.

Read the passage from the opinion of the court in Dred Scott v. Sandford, written by Justice Taney.The question then arises, whether the provisions of the Constitution, in relation to the personal rights and privileges to which the citizen of a State should be entitled, embraced the negro African race, at that time in this country, or who might afterwards be imported, who had then or should afterwards be made free in any State; and to put it in the power of a single State to make him a citizen of the United States, and endue him with the full rights of citizenship in every other State without their consent? Does the Constitution of the United States act upon him whenever he shall be made free under the laws of a State, and raised there to the rank of a citizen, and immediately clothe him with all the privileges of a citizen in every other State, and in its own courts?The court thinks the affirmative of these propositions cannot be maintained. And if it cannot, the plaintiff in error could not be a citizen of the State of Missouri, within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States, and, consequently, was not entitled to sue in its courts.

Leila is preparing a presentation on how an increase in college expenses affects students’ career decisions. After researching student loans, she creates a table showing an increase in the amount of money that students borrow to pay for college.Which element could Leila add to her presentation to most effectively add new value?

Read the excerpt from "The Storyteller.""Were there any sheep in the park?” demanded Cyril."No;” said the bachelor, "there were no sheep.”"Why weren’t there any sheep?” came the inevitable question arising out of that answer.The aunt permitted herself a smile, which might almost have been described as a grin."There were no sheep in the park,” said the bachelor, "because the Prince’s mother had once had a dream that her son would either be killed by a sheep or else by a clock falling on him. For that reason the Prince never kept a sheep in his park or a clock in his palace.”

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.As sugar planters fled from the revolution in Haiti, some moved to Cuba's Oriente Province, others to North America—to Louisiana. By the time the Haitian plantation owners and overseers reached New Orleans, abolitionists were pressing to end the African slave trade. The tragedy is that this movement to end slavery did nothing to improve conditions in Louisiana. In fact, the state that slaves called Lousy Anna was the very worst place for an African in America; it was the Caribbean all over again—a death sentence.In every single American slave state, the population of enslaved people kept rising even after the slave trade was abolished. That was because enough enslaved children were born, lived, and grew to become adults. There was just one exception to this rule: Louisiana, where the native-born enslaved population kept dropping. Sugar was a killer.

Read the text and study the diagram carefully.PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 10, 2018Fairfax Announces Construction of the UOSA Water Reclamation PlantIn a positive move for residents concerned about water preservation in our current drought, the city of Fairfax is proud to announce plans for the UOSA Water Reclamation Plant. After being completed in the spring of 2019, this state-of-the-art water-recycling facility will begin supplementing the city’s current water supply (the Occoquan Reservoir) with runoff collected from Fairfax homes and businesses. City officials anticipate that the plant will feed 20,000 gallons of recycled water a year back into the municipal water supply.In sum, water-reclamation specialists explain the recycling process as follows:• Water runoff is collected from homes, businesses, and factories in the city of Fairfax.• Collected runoff is pumped, via the UOSA Pump Station, to the plant. • At the plant, water is passed through seven different levels of filtration and tested for purity before being released into the UOSA Reservoir. • Recycled water from the UOSA Reservoir then flows through the UOSA Dam back into the Occoquan Reservoir via Bull Run.

Why does Roosevelt use repetition in his request for a declaration of war?

Read the excerpt from Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah.I froze. The priest would declare me a heretic, my parents would call me a traitor, and Mrs. Piogarni would give me detention. I had no idea what to say. I mean, what does a Muslim confess to a priest? I could only think of one thing. That every time Chris Barkley called me a darkie, or teased me about my mom's towel-head, I made a silent prayer asking God to drop a tree on his stupid head.The priest asked me again: "What is your confession, my child?""I’m Muslim," I whispered."Five Hail Marys and five of the Lord’s Prayer.”That was my first and last participation in a church service.

Read the excerpt from "The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings" by Heather Brown, Emily Guskin, and Amy Mitchell.Social media indeed played a part in the Arab uprisings. Networks formed online were crucial in organizing a core group of activists, specifically in Egypt. Civil society leaders in Arab countries emphasized the role of "the internet, mobile phones, and social media" in the protests. Additionally, digital media has been used by Arabs to exercise freedom of speech and as a space for civic engagement.Now, research is emerging that reexamines in a more detailed way the role that social media played in the Arab uprisings.In July 2012 a report was published by the United States Institute of Peace based on an extensive content analysis of bit.ly links from the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Bahrain. Bit.ly links, or short URLs, are predominantly used in social media such as Twitter. The authors came to some conclusions that countered the initial assumption that social media was a causal mechanism in the uprisings.Instead, the study suggests that the importance of social media was in communicating to the rest of the world what was happening on the ground during the uprisings. "New [or social] media outlets that use bit.ly links are more likely to spread information outside of the region than inside it, acting like a megaphone more than a rallying cry."

Read the passage from a letter that President Jimmy Carter wrote to Congress in 1977.This message brings together a great variety of programs. It deals not only with ways to preserve the wilderness, wildlife, and natural and historical resources which are a beautiful and valued part of America's national heritage: it deals also with the effects of pollution, toxic chemicals, and the damage caused by the demand for energy. Each of these concerns, in its own way, affects the environment; and together they underscore the importance of environmental protection in all our lives.

Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 100.”Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so longTo speak of that which gives thee all thy might?Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?Return, forgetful Muse, and straight redeemIn gentle numbers time so idly spent;Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteemAnd gives thy pen both skill and argument.Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,If Time have any wrinkle graven there;If any, be a satire to decay,And make Time's spoils despised every where.Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life;So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.

Read the passage from chapter 14 of The Prince.A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank.And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art. Francesco Sforza, through being martial, from a private person became Duke of Milan; and the sons, through avoiding the hardships and troubles of arms, from dukes became private persons. For among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised, and this is one of those ignominies against which a prince ought to guard himself, as is shown later on.

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.But there is another story as well. Information about sugar spread as human knowledge expanded, as great civilizations and cultures exchanged ideas. In fact, while sugar was the direct cause of the expansion of slavery, the global connections that sugar brought about also fostered the most powerful ideas of human freedom.

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Read the sentences.The Mississippi River flows from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Its source is a peaceful lake in Minnesota. It flows south. It flows past 10 states. Its mouth is in Louisiana.Which sentence best combines these ideas into a compound-complex sentence?

Read the procedural text.Making your own pizza dough is easy and inexpensive. An electric mixer with a dough hook makes the mixing and kneading process less labor intensive; however, if you are willing to put a little muscle into the process, the kitchen equipment you need couldn’t be more basic. In addition to the staple ingredients of every good bread dough—just four ingredients and water—a bowl and a spoon are all you need.DirectionsIn a large mixing bowl, whisk together 1 pound, 4.25 ounces of bread flour; 1 teaspoon of rapid-rise yeast; and 1.5 teaspoons of salt (preferably kosher salt).Add 14 ounces of cold water and 2 ounces of extra-virgin olive oil. Mix well, scraping the flour from the sides and bottom of the bowl as you go, until the dough becomes smooth and elastic. On a countertop, hand-knead an additional 1 to 3 tablespoons of flour into the dough until the dough becomes easier to work. Knead for approximately 5 minutes.Allow the finished dough to rise in a covered bowl for 2 to 3 hours.

Read this passage from chapter 10 of The Prince.Therefore, a prince who has a strong city, and had not made himself odious, will not be attacked, or if anyone should attack he will only be driven off with disgrace; again, because that the affairs of this world are so changeable, it is almost impossible to keep an army a whole year in the field without being interfered with. And whoever should reply: If the people have property outside the city, and see it burnt, they will not remain patient, and the long siege and self-interest will make them forget their prince; to this I answer that a powerful and courageous prince will overcome all such difficulties by giving at one time hope to his subjects that the evil will not be for long, at another time fear of the cruelty of the enemy, then preserving himself adroitly from those subjects who seem to him to be too bold.