Cumulative Exam — Cumulative exam Answers

The words and actions of Lemon Brown in "The Treasure of Lemon Brown” makes him seem like?

Read this excerpt from A Night to Remember."It’s all right, little girl," called Dan Marvin to his new bride; "you go and I’ll stay a while." He blew her a kiss as she entered the boat."I’ll see you later," Adolf Dyker smiled as he helped Mrs. Dyker across the gunwale.Which central idea from the text is supported by the details in the excerpt?

Read this excerpt from A Night to Remember.Second Class passenger Lawrence Beesley considered himself the rankest landlubber, but even he knew what rockets meant. The Titanic needed help—needed it so badly she was calling on any ship near enough to see.The details in this excerpt

Read this excerpt from “What I Hope to Leave Behind.”If we have known happy homes, we want to reproduce the same type of thing we have had; and even though we may always be critical of some things in our past, time nearly always puts a halo around even a few of the disagreeable things, and most women dream, as they rock their babies or busy themselves in household tasks, that their daughters will do the same things someday.

Read the excerpt from "The Caterpillar and the Butterfly.”Before attempting the unknown journey, however, he flew back to the round, green cabbage-head on which he had lived so long. There were the twenty, small, green caterpillars, still creeping slowly about and filling themselves with cabbage-leaf. This was all they knew how to do, and this they did faithfully. "Never mind, little caterpillars," said the new butterfly as he hovered over them, "keep on at your work; the cabbage leaf gives you food, and the crawling makes you strong. By and by you, too, shall be butterflies and go forth free and glad into God's great upper world." An example of personification in this excerpt is:

Read this excerpt from "The Past" by Ellen Glasgow.When I gave my name and explained that I was the new secretary, I was delivered into the charge of an elderly lady's maid, who looked as if she had been crying. Without speaking a word, though she nodded kindly enough, she led me down the hall, and then up a flight of stairs at the back of the house to a pleasant bedroom in the third story. There was a great deal of sunshine, and the walls, which were painted a soft yellow, made the room very cheerful. It would be a comfortable place to sit in when I was not working, I thought, while the sad-faced maid stood watching me remove my wraps and hat."If you are not tired, Mrs. Vanderbridge would like to dictate a few letters," she said presently, and they were the first words she had spoken."I am not a bit tired. Will you take me to her?" One of the reasons, I knew, which had decided Mrs. Vanderbridge to engage me was the remarkable similarity of our handwriting. We were both Southerners, and though she was now famous on two continents for her beauty, I couldn't forget that she had got her early education at the little academy for young ladies in Fredericksburg. This was a bond of sympathy in my thoughts at least, and, heaven knows, I needed to remember it while I followed the maid down the narrow stairs and along the wide hall to the front of the house.Who is the story’s first-person narrator?

Read these sentences.General Washington could not rely on Henry Knox to supply regular reports about the yellow fever epidemic. He _____ wrote to the comptroller of the treasury, Oliver Wolcott, in an attempt to get an update on the situation in Philadelphia.Choose the correct transition word.

Which line from Act 2 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street helps to distinguish this teleplay as a work of science fiction rather than a work of fantasy fiction?

Read the following excerpt.Hybrid cars are not as helpful to the environment as some think; making the cars still creates pollution. Therefore, the only environmentally safe mode of transportation is walking or biking.Which online source is the most credible for gathering information about the topic?

Read this entry from a blog about service dogs.Lexie, an eight-month-old black Labrador retriever, is sleeping quietly at my feet. I can’t help but think that her soft, velvety ears and alert brown eyes would make her the perfect “doggie model” for pet magazines and pet store ads. However, Lexie will soon have a much more important job to do. In a few months, she will become the loyal companion and service dog for a young man who has been blind since birth. She will help him board public transportation, such as buses, subways, and trains, and she will help him safely cross busy intersections. Lexie will even help the young man avoid obstacles, such as high curbs and low overhangs. Like all dogs in our organization, Lexie has undergone months of specialized training to help a visually impaired person lead an active and independent life.

Read the excerpt from "The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes."I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you!• You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer.• You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. . . .If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!

Take a look at this online thesaurus entry.informEtymologyFrom Middle English informen, enformen, from Old French enformer, informer ("to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin informare ("to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- ("into”) + forma ("form, shape”), equivalent to in- + form .PronunciationAudio Rhymes -c:(r)mSynonyms(communicate knowledge to (trans.)): acquaint, apprise, notify(act as informer): dob, name names, peach, snitch

Which blog is most likely written to persuade readers?

Read the beginning of "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde.Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant’s garden.It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. “How happy we are here!” they cried to each other.The beginning of this story

Which choice is one reason Walt Whitman repeats words in “I Hear America Singing”?

Brooke has been asked to present on the topic below.Persuade students to participate in the annual seventh-grade Fun Run.What would be the most effective claim for this presentation?

Read this excerpt from “President Ronald Reagan's Address to the Nation” following the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle.I've always had great faith in and respect for our space program, and what happened today does nothing to diminish it. We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute. We'll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue. I want to add that I wish I could talk to every man and woman who works for NASA or who worked on this mission and tell them: “Your dedication and professionalism have moved and impressed us for decades. And we know of your anguish. We share it.”

Read this excerpt from “President Ronald Reagan's Address to the Nation” following the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle.Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But we've never lost an astronaut in flight; we've never had a tragedy like this. And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle.

Read the excerpt from “The Snow-Queen.”Kay and Gerda were looking at one of their picture-books—the clock in the great church-tower had just struck five, when Kay exclaimed, “Oh! something has stung my heart, and I've got something in my eye!”The little girl threw her arms round his neck; he winked hard with both his eyes; no, she could see nothing in them.“I think it is gone now,” said he; but it had not gone. It was one of the tiny splinters of the glass of the magic mirror which we have heard about, that turned everything great and good reflected in it small and ugly. And poor Kay had also a splinter in his heart, and it began to change into a lump of ice. It did not hurt him at all, but the splinter was there all the same.