Anticipating the Future through Texts: Visions — Cumulative exam Answers

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

Read the excerpt from "The North American Indian Apache Mythology-Creation Myth."Then turning to The Girl, Kúterastan said, "Truly this is not a fit place in which to live; let us make the earth." And so saying he at once began to sing, "I am thinking of the earth, the earth, the earth; I am thinking of the earth," which he repeated four times.

Read the excerpt from Outcasts United.She blew the whistle, and soon a white cloud of dust began to rise from the scuffling feet of the two sides.The Fifteens displayed a new energy and determination, and took control of the ball. On an early run, Mandela set up Muamer, the new, mustachioed Bosnian forward, with a touch pass off the back of his foot, but Muamer missed the shot."Man!" Mandela shouted in frustration.Moments later, Peshawa slithered through the Fifteens' defenses and fired a shot that clanged into the chain-link fence of the backstop.The Seventeens were up 1–0.The Fifteens didn't give up. Soon Mandela dribbled through a seam in the Seventeens' defense, got a clear view of the goal, and fired a perfect shot: clang! The Fifteens had tied it 1–1. Luma blew the whistle for halftime.

Read the excerpt from "Fish Cheeks.”Then my father poked his chopsticks just below the fish eye and plucked out the soft meat. "Amy, your favorite,” he said, offering me the tender fish cheek. I wanted to disappear.What is Amy Tan's purpose?

Read the excerpt from “First Generation” of Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia.She considers the vagaries of sports, the happenstance of El Líder, a star pitcher in his youth, narrowly missing a baseball career in America. His wicked curveball attracted the major league scouts, and the Washington Senators were interested in signing him but changed their minds. Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.Which best explains how Garcia’s word choice helps establish her voice in the excerpt?

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

Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson, Part 2."Joey burst into tears.Louise Carpenter made an instinctive gesture toward him. Ellery's head-shake warned her back. He went close to the boy and tousled the red head, murmuring something the others could not hear. And after a while Joey's tears sniffled to an end and he wiped his eyes on his sleeve in a puzzled way.

Which sentence makes the best use of a transitional word or phrase?

An effective moderator of a group discussion

What aspects of Greek life are reflected in the excerpt? Select four responses.

Read the excerpt from The Code Book.Without much hope of a theoretical breakthrough, cryptanalysts have been forced to look for a technological innovation. If there is no obvious way to reduce the number of steps required for factoring, then cryptanalysts need a technology that will perform these steps more quickly. Silicon chips will continue to get faster as the years pass, doubling in speed roughly every eighteen months, but this is not enough to make a real impact on the speed of factoring—cryptanalysts require a technology that is billions of times faster than current computers. Consequently, cryptanalysts are looking toward a radically new form of computer, the quantum computer. If scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with such enormous speed that it would make a modern supercomputer look like a broken abacus.

Read the passage from Heracles.In both ancient Greek and Mesopotamian mythology, angering a god brought about dire consequences. In Heracles's case, he attracted Hera's wrath simply by being the illegitimate son of her husband, Zeus. Gilgamesh's troubles magnify when the goddess Ishtar falls in love with and is spurned by him. She begs her father to unleash the Bull of Heaven. With each breath, the Bull causes the ground to open up and swallow hundreds of people. Gilgamesh and Enkidu slay the bull, resulting in the gods' decision that one of them—Enkidu—must die. These stories instilled the message that to keep away the forces of chaos, one needed to give the gods what they wanted. This meant worshipping the gods and tending to their temples on a daily basis.

Read this excerpt from “The Medicine Bag.” “He carefully prepared for his quest with a purifying sweat bath, and then he went alone to a high butte top to fast and pray. After three days he received his sacred dream—in which he found, after long searching, the white man’s iron. He did not understand his vision of finding something belonging to the white people, for in that time they were the enemy. When he came down from the butte to cleanse himself at the stream below, he found the remains of a campfire and the broken shell of an iron kettle. This was a sign that reinforced his dream. He took a piece of the iron for his medicine bag, which he had made of elk skin years before, to prepare for his quest. “He returned to his village, where he told his dream to the wise old men of the tribe. They gave him the name Iron Shell, but neither did they understand the meaning of the dream. The first Iron Shell kept the piece of iron with him at all times and believed it gave him protection from the evils of those unhappy days.“Then a terrible thing happened to Iron Shell. He and several other young men were taken from their homes by the soldiers and sent far away to a white man’s boarding school. He was angry and lonesome for his parents and the young girl he had wed before he was taken away. At first Iron Shell resisted the teacher’s attempts to change him, and he did not try to learn. One day it was his turn to work in the school’s blacksmith shop. As he walked into the place, he knew that his medicine had brought him there to learn and work with the white man’s iron.“Iron Shell became a blacksmith and worked at the trade when he returned to the reservation. All of his life he treasured the medicine bag.”

Read the excerpt from Chapter 5 of Wheels of Change.By the turn of the century, the bicycle's heyday was over and a new mechanical wonder promised to transport men and women faster and farther than ever before. Bicycle manufacturers retooled their factories to build them and bicycle repair shops installed gasoline tanks to service them. The era of the automobile had begun.

Read the excerpt from Chapter 4 of Wheels of Change.Annie Londonderry wasn't the only one who pushed the limits of time and distance on her two-wheeler. In the late 1890s, several women took the concept of riding a century—100 miles—to the extreme by peeling off two, three, four, or more centuries in a row. Perhaps the greatest female century rider performed outside the spotlight. Dora Rinehart’s exploits hardly ever were reported beyond the western United States, where the Colorado native earned the title “America’s Greatest Cyclienne.” Rinehart took up the bicycle to regain her strength after suffering scarlet fever. She started with short rides, but quickly built up her endurance. In 1896 alone, she pedaled 17,196 miles, more than any other woman in the United States. That included stretches of 10 days in July and 20 days from October 31 through November 19 when she rode a century every day.

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.

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

Based on its structure, which word most likely means "someone who takes advantage of circumstances”?

Read the excerpt from Chapter 3 of Wheels of Change .But the bicycle craze had a more lasting impact on women’s clothing than just the use of bloomers. Thanks in large part to cycling, the innovation of rational dress reformers were starting to take effect by the end of the 1890s. Corsets were on their way out, dresses were getting shorter, and women no longer wore the heavy, bulky undergarments that gave them round, unnatural shapes. These changes went a long way toward unburdening women and setting the stage for them to be healthier and more active in the coming century.

Read the excerpt from “A Century Ride.”“Go up to my room and lie down. I’ll call the landlady, to make you some tea. You are starving. No, not a word. You’ve done your day’s work, little woman, and earned a rest. You can come home to-morrow on the stage, if you’re rested.”So he foraged, and brought triumphantly forth half a chicken, a couple of slices of melon and some light biscuits, with a generous noggin of milk to wash it all down. The landlady grunted an inquiry, was informed of the facts, and forbidden to disturb herself, nor emerge from her bunk in the lean-to.