Unit Test — Cumulative exam Answers

Which sentence contains a nonrestrictive clause and is punctuated correctly?

Which line from President Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University is a fact?

Read this excerpt from the employee handbook for Pepper’s Pizza. What is the purpose of the heading?

Nurse’s coarse, motherly character provides a foil for

Read the excerpt from "It's Only Fair.”"Fine!” Avery said, pushing a stack of books away and looking up at the clock on the wall. "But our paper’s due in three days and we still don’t have topic. What are we going to do?”"It’s obvious, isn’t it?” Maritza asked. "You write why Rosa Parks is so great, and I’ll do the same for Irene Morgan. And then we’ll put it all together.”

Read the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream” speech.Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

Read the sentence.The canyon, formed by years of erosion, was a breathtaking sight to behold.

You are given the task to write an alternate ending to "It's Only Fair.” Your assignment is to change the ending so that the flat character becomes a dynamic character due to conflict.

Read the excerpt from My Story.More of us rode the buses than Caucasians did, because more whites could afford cars. It was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five days a week, to go downtown and work for white people.

Read the excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines.”The coal companies, in response, recruited workers from as far as New York’s Ellis Island, where newly arriving immigrants were desperate for jobs.

How does the author of the letter to the editor feel about urban sprawl?

What is the central idea of the letter to the editor?

Read the excerpt from "It's Only Fair.”Maritza rolled her eyes. "That’s why we should do our report on Irene Morgan,” she said. "She was the first black person to get a new law made by refusing to give up her seat for a white person on a bus. Rosa Parks might be more famous for it, but Irene Morgan did it first. "Listen,” she said, not giving Avery a chance to respond. "It’s a great story.”

Read the excerpt from "It's Only Fair.”"It’s only fair,” Maritza told her friend Avery as they sat in their empty classroom after school. "The first person to do a famous thing should get the most credit for it. I mean, how much do you hear about the second person to fly an airplane over the Atlantic Ocean? Or the second guy who landed on the moon?”

In "It's Only Fair,” the point of view is

Read the excerpt from "Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?”"Minor detail,” Shondra said. "You just have to say it like you mean it. Come on, pretend I’m her.” She sat down and put a giant smug grin on her face. "Just remember: think ‘pain,’ but say ‘Romeo.’”

Which statement best expresses the theme of "Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?”

Read the excerpt from "Dwaina Brooks.”Dwaina's sisters, Stephanie, sixteen, and Crystal, nine, already had aprons tied around their waists. Dwaina turned on the radio, and they all formed an assembly line and dug in. Gail threw chicken into three skillets and got them all going at once. Dwaina slapped meat on open slices of bread and covered them with mayo. Crystal wrapped sandwiches and stuffed sacks. Dwaina looked on proudly as the corner of the kitchen began to fill up with sacks. It looked like a lot of meals.

Read the excerpt from "Dwaina Brooks.”Coupons helped cut the prices for sandwich wrapping, cookies, and mayonnaise. Dwaina's uncle got them discount lunch meats from the store where he used to work. Thursday night was bargain night at the bakery in nearby Lancaster. They drove away with six big loaves of day-old bread for $1.78. "Mama, do you think anyone at the shelter will really eat day-old bread?" Dwaina asked. "We eat it," Gail replied. "If it don't kill us, it won't kill them."The baker gave them twenty free boxes, too, when he heard how they would be used. Dwaina's aunts and uncles brought over huge sacks of chips and big bottles of salad dressing.

Read the excerpt from "Dwaina Brooks.”Then one afternoon, Dwaina talked with a young man who had been without a home for a long time."What do you need?" she asked him."I need a job and a permanent home," he replied."Well, I can't give you that," she answered impatiently. "I don't have a job either. Don't you need anything else?""Yeah. I would love a really good meal again."