Unit Test — Cumulative exam Answers

Read the sentence from Abby’s essay.Lampshade dresses were shown by designer Paul Poiret at an event called the Thousand and Second Night party, one of the first major Parisian fashion events.

Read the sentence.The media criticized Governor Dunham’s callous behavior, noting that the politician regularly ignored the struggles of the people who had voted for her.

Read the passage.When I got to my cabin at camp, the other campers showered me with a chorus of greetings."I’m Alex. Happy to see another redhead!” the closest to me said."Javier,” called the boy sitting next to him."I like your glasses, Javier,” I said."Thanks!” He grinned."Miguel,” waved the boy in the corner. "I hope you like comic books!”A fourth boy, taller than the rest, walked up and shook my hand. "I’m Asher. Grab a bunk and we’ll help you settle in. ”

Read the passage from Heracles.Ancient peoples believed in a pantheon of gods. To the ancient Greeks, the gods possessed human characteristics, including their weaknesses, such as vanity, greed, jealousy, vengefulness, and cruelty. In their stories, there was regular interaction between gods and humans, as well as demigods, who were the offspring of a union between a god and a mortal. Thus, many myths have to do with the struggle between them.

Read the excerpt from Chapter 5 of Wheels of Change.Some stated the liberating effects of the bicycle with less sarcasm. "The bicycle has brought to women a healthful, wholesome means of securing a degree of freedom and independence that no amount of discussion regarding 'women's rights' would ever have produced," wrote the L.A.W. Bulletin and Good Roads magazine in 1898. Meanwhile, Munseg's Magazine assessed the impact of the wheel on women in a special bicycle-themed issue. "If she has ridden her bicycle into new fields, becoming in the process a new creature, it has been gradually and unconsciously," the editors wrote. "She did not have to be born again in some mysterious fashion, becoming a strange creature, a new woman. She is more like the 'eternal feminine,' who has taken on wings, and who is using them with an ever increasing delight in her new power." Indeed, many bicycle companies at home and abroad did put wings on the women in their advertisements, emphasizing that they had taken flight.

In Amaterasu, how do Susanowo’s actions affect the advancement of the plot?

Look at the image and read the caption.Caption: This is an image of a woman wearing a crinoline in the 1850s created by cartoonist George Cruikshank.

Read the poem excerpt.As every eye awaits her handTo cue the members of the band.

Read this excerpt from a student’s sonnet.I stared at the clock and wished that it would move forward

In Rain Myths, "The Chinese Rain-Master” and "The Madagascan Myth” both feature

Read the excerpt from The Metamorphoses by Ovid.They go down . . . and cast stones, as ordered, behind their footsteps. The stones . . . began to lay aside their hardness and their stiffness, and by degrees to become soft; and when softened, to assume a new form. Presently after, when they were grown larger . . . some shape of man might be seen in them. . . . Yet that part of them which was humid with any moisture, and earthy, was turned into portions adapted for the use of the body. That which is solid, and cannot be bent, is changed into bones. . . . And in a little time, by the interposition of the Gods above, the stones thrown by the hands of the man, took the shape of a man, and the female race was renewed by the throwing of the woman. Thence are we a hardy generation, and able to endure fatigue, and we give proofs from what original we are sprung.Read the excerpt from the adaptation "The Flood” by James Baldwin.When at last they reached the plain they found themselves at the head of a noble company of human beings, all eager to serve them.So Deucalion became their king, and he set them in homes, and taught them how to till the ground, and how to do many useful things; and the land was filled with people who were happier and far better than those who had dwelt there before the flood. And they named the country Hellas, after Hellen, the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha; and the people are to this day called Hellenes.

Which example most clearly shows effective collaboration?

What is the most likely reason a student would read two essays about drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to build the Trans-Alaska Pipeline?

Which statements about William Shakespeare’s sonnets are true? Select four options.They have a fixed rhyme scheme and structure.They were the first sonnets ever to be written.They often present a question and an answer.They often present a problem and a solution.They were originally written in Italian.They frequently focus upon love and romance.

Which sentence contains the best example of descriptive details?

Which sentence contains a nonrestrictive clause and is punctuated correctly?

Which trait signals that the poem “I Am Offering This Poem” is written in free verse?

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.Now Zeus the lord of cloud roused in the northa storm against the ships, and driving veils of squall moved down like night on land and sea. The bows went plunging at the gust; sails cracked and lashed out strips in the big wind.We saw death in that fury, dropped the yards, unshipped the oars, and pulled for the nearest lee: then two long days and nights we lay offshore worn out and sick at heart, tasting our grief, until a third Dawn came with ringlets shining.

Which best describes the purpose of Chapter 1 of Wheels of Change?