Diagnostic PreTest Answers

Read the excerpt from “I Am Offering This Poem.”It’s all I have to give,and all anyone needs to live,and to go on living inside,when the world outsideno longer cares if you live or die;remember,I love you.

Read the paragraph Jamal has written about bear hibernation.The bear goes into hibernation for one major reason. During the winter, there is not a lot of food to eat, so during the cold winter months, the bear hibernates so that it doesn’t starve. Bears are large animals and need to eat a lot of food, and there just is not enough for them to live on during the winter. A bear will come out of hibernation during the spring, when there is a better food supply.

Read the excerpt from “I Am Offering This Poem.”and in the corner of your drawer,tucked away like a cabin or hoganin dense trees, come knocking,and I will answer, give you directions,and let you warm yourself by this fire,rest by this fire, and make you feel safe

Read the paragraph.Even though my life is very busy, I spend as much time as I can with my family. I often ask my dad, who is an excellent athlete to play soccer with me. I also enjoy taking walks, baking desserts, and playing cards with my mom. However, nothing is better than watching movies with my loyal cat, Max.

Read the legend titled "Beaver and Porcupine."Once in the old days Beaver and Porcupine were comrades and went everywhere together. Now Beavers are much afraid of Bears, who break down the beaver dams so as to let off the water, catch them, and eat them. But the Bear fears the sharp quills of the Porcupine; therefore the little fellow acted as guard to his friend. Porcupine often visited Beaver in his house, which is dry and comfortable, and unfortunately annoyed his host by leaving some of his quills there.One day Porcupine proposed to call on his friend, and Beaver offered to carry him on his back, because the prickly one cannot swim. But instead of taking him to his home under the dam, he took him to a tall stump in the very middle of the lake, and there he left him!There Porcupine was compelled to stay until the lake froze over, and he could walk home on the ice.Beaver contrived to explain the whole thing as a joke, and the pair appeared to be on as good terms as ever. One fine day, the Bear appeared.“What shall I do? Save me! Save me!” cried Beaver in terror.“Certainly, friend; just get upon my back and I will carry you to safety,” replied Porcupine.Beaver did as he was told and was taken to the top of a very tall tree and left to himself. He did not know how to climb and was afraid to try to get down alone.“Oh, do help me down!” he cried; but it was of no use to beg. After staying up there so long that he grew dizzy and almost starved to death, he finally contrived to scramble down the tree; and they say that is why the bark of trees is rough and full of scratches to this day. We are also told that it is on account of this happening that people who have loved each other very much sometimes quarrel and are no longer friends.

Langston Hughes's poem "Madam and the Rent Man" reflects its historical setting because

Read the paragraph.Even though my life is very busy, I spend as much time as I can with my family. I often ask my dad, who is an excellent athlete to play soccer with me. I also enjoy taking walks, baking desserts, and playing cards with my mom. However, nothing is better than watching movies with my loyal cat, Max.

Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone and the summary that follows it.Half of this biocontainment operation was going to be news containment. C. J. Peters's comments to The Washington Post were designed to create an impression that the situation was under control, safe, and not all that interesting. C. J. was understating the gravity of the situation. But he could be very smooth when he wanted, and he used his friendliest voice with the reporters, assuring them over the telephone that there really was no problem, just kind of a routine technical situation. Somehow the reporters concluded that the sick monkeys had been "destroyed as a precaution" when in fact the nightmare, and the reason for troops, was that the animals hadn't been destroyed.Summary of central idea: It was very important to keep the truth about this operation from the news.

Read the excerpt from The Dark Game.But how would Hall get that telegram? That would take some doing, he admitted. Then Hall remembered Mr. H., one of his trusted operatives. It was Mr. H. who had alerted MI8 to the suspicious activities of Sweden's chargé d'affaires in Mexico City, Folke Cronholm. Sharp-eyed Mr. H. had noticed that Cronholm was making frequent visits to the telegraph office, far more visits than one would expect from a representative of the Swedish government, given the limited relationship between that government and Mexico.

Read the paragraph Arianna has written about the northern lights.In summary, the northern lights are a phenomenon that have fascinated people for thousands of years. The spectacular light show in the sky draws travelers from all over the world, and now you know why. Next time you are outside at night, imagine what the sky would look like lit up with green, yellow, and streaks of red. There is nothing quite as brilliant as this natural occurrence.

Read the two excerpts from Chapter Four of Windows to the Universe: Revolutions in Astronomy.Light travels at a speed of approximately 186,282 miles per second. That's pretty fast, but the universe is a huge place! For example, light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth, so we see the Sun as it was 8 minutes ago. For more distant objects, this delay can be millions or billions of years.NASA scientists set specific goals for JWST, which helped shape its design and capabilities. The goals of JWST are:Search for the first galaxies and sources of light formed right after the Big Bang.How do these two excerpts together explain why JWST was designed to study the early universe?

Fill in the blanks in order.Janelle and Marcus and _______ group went to the library to prepare for the presentation, but the specific book they needed wasn't _______.

What similarities do the narrators’ perspectives most reveal? Select two options.

Read the passage and study the image from Sugar Changed the World.Cutting cane was hard work, but it was nothing like what came next: Piles of freshly cut cane had to be fed into the ever-turning mill wheels, until they were completely crushed. The owners insisted that during the work hours the grinding never stop, no matter what. The mills were most often tended by women who were doing dangerous work while getting almost no rest. That was a very bad combination. An ax was often propped up near the rollers so if a slave closed her eyes for a second while pushing the cane, her arm could be hacked off before she was pulled through the merciless grinders. Guests at sugar plantations often remarked on how many one-armed people they saw.Day after day, week after week, month after month, the cane was cut, hauled to the mill, and fed through the rollers. The mills kept going as long as there was cane to grind—the season varied between four and ten months, depending on the local growing conditions. A visitor who came to Brazil in 1630 described the scene: "People the color of the very night, working briskly and moaning at the same time without a moment of peace or rest, whoever sees all the confused and noisy machinery . . . will say that this indeed is the image of Hell.”In this illustration by William Clark, sugar cane is fed into a mill to be ground.

Which excerpt from "The Most Dangerous Game" best portrays Zaroff as Rainsford’s foil?

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Which phrases representing the idea of freedom connect the poem to the autobiography?

Read the legend titled "The Little Mice."Once upon a time, a prairie mouse busied herself all fall storing away a cache of beans. Every morning she was out early with her empty cast-off snakeskin, which she filled with ground beans and dragged home with her teeth.The little mouse had a cousin who was fond of dancing and talk but did not like to work. She was not careful to get her cache of beans, and the season was already well gone before she thought to bestir herself. When she came to realize her need, she found she had no packing bag. So she went to her hardworking cousin and said:"Cousin, I have no beans stored for winter and the season is nearly gone. But I have no snakeskin to gather the beans in. Will you lend me one?""But why have you no packing bag? Where were you in the moon when the snakes cast off their skins?""I was here.""What were you doing?""I was busy talking and dancing.""And now you are punished," said the other. "It is always so with lazy, careless people. But I will let you have the snakeskin. And now go, and by hard work and industry, try to recover your wasted time."