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Read the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream” speech. Five score 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. The emotional connotation of the underlined word helps King emphasize the document’s

What does Martin Luther King Jr. make allusions to in his "I Have a Dream” speech? Choose three correct answers.

Read the dialogue from Act II, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo: Thou wast never with me for anything when thou wast not here for the goose. Mercutio: I will bite thee by the ear for that jest. Romeo: Nay, good goose, bite not. Mercutio: Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce. Romeo: And is it not then well served in to a sweet goose? Which word from the conversation best helps the reader understand the mood of the scene?

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

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.’” Based on this dialogue, what is Shondra’s attitude toward the narrator?

Read the excerpt from "Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?” But I didn’t sleep. I thought about how utterly miserable it would feel to mess up on stage, plus get a vile grade in English class, plus watch Allison gloat. I got up before my alarm went off, arrived at school early, and slogged through the day like a sleepwalker. Finally the last bell chimed. "Ready?” Shondra asked, when we were alone again in the spare classroom. We had two hours until we had to meet our teacher backstage. Which statement best describes how the pacing of events heightens tension?

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. What is the denotation of the word desperate ?

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.” What would be the advantage of changing this excerpt to Avery’s first-person point of view?

Complete the sentence with the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent. If students would like to be part of the class play,

Which claim is the most effective for the argument that learning another language has many advantages?

What should an author do to hook the audience at the opening of a presentation? Choose three correct answers.

Read the excerpt from a student’s essay. Student Work From the beginning, Rainsford is an individual who enjoys the hunt and wastes no thought on the animals he kills. On the boat, Whitney expresses some empathy for the animals they hunt, while Rainsford scoffs at the notion that animals feel fear or any other emotion. In fact, Rainsford belittles Whitney, telling him that "[t]he world is made up of two classes—the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are the hunters.” Which revision of the first sentence most effectively incorporates the literary term characterized ?

Which detail best supports the claim that we are in an Information Age?

Nurse’s coarse, motherly character provides a foil for

Read the sentence. The canyon, formed by years of erosion, was a breathtaking sight to behold. What best describes the underlined part of this sentence?

Which line of dialogue from Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet most foreshadows that Mercutio’s death will lead to other tragic events in the story?

Read the excerpt from Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet . Mercutio : Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes. What eye, but such an eye, would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling. Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun. Didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter? with another, for tying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thou wilt tutor me from quarrelling! Benvolio : An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. Mercutio : The fee-simple! O simple! Benvolio : By my head, here come the Capulets. Why does Shakespeare include this comic speech by Mercutio?

Read the excerpt from "The Most Dangerous Game." A man, who had been hiding in the curtains of the bed, was standing there. "Rainsford!" screamed the general. "How in God's name did you get here?" "Swam," said Rainsford. "I found it quicker than walking through the jungle." The general sucked in his breath and smiled. "I congratulate you," he said. "You have won the game." Rainsford did not smile. "I am still a beast at bay," he said, in a low, hoarse voice. "Get ready, General Zaroff." The general made one of his deepest bows. "I see," he said. "Splendid! One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed. On guard, Rainsford." . . . He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided. Adrian is writing an essay about "The Most Dangerous Game.” Which detail from the excerpt best supports his idea that Rainsford is unchanged and still feels that the hunter is justified in killing the hunted?

Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe". And when he had found the bloodstained shawl, he cried: "Now this same night will see two lovers lose their lives: she was the one more worthy of long life: it's I who bear the guilt for this. O my poor girl, it's I who led you to your death; I said you were to reach this fearful place by night; I let you be the first who would arrive. O all you lions with your lairs beneath this cliff, come now, and with your fierce jaws feast upon my wretched guts! Which statement best describes how the pace of the excerpt creates tension?

Using MLA guidelines, what information should be listed first in the citation for this source?

Read the excerpt from "Lise Marie de Baissac.” In Normandy, Baissac pretended to be a refugee from Paris living in the house of a schoolmaster. There, she helped to set up more resistance groups and organize sabotage actions. Again traveling by bicycle, she maintained secret communications between groups and transported supplies. This was extremely dangerous work. Which best describes the meaning of the underlined word?

Which evidence is used in this excerpt? Choose two correct answers.

Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet . Montague : Many a morning hath he there been seen, With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew, Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs: But all so soon as the all-cheering sun Should in the furthest east begin to draw 120 The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed, Away from light steals home my heavy son, And private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, And makes himself an artificial night. 125 Black and portentous must this humour prove Unless good counsel may the cause remove. In this excerpt, Romeo’s reaction to light illustrates his

Read this excerpt from Hamlet discussed in "Behind the Curtain." Shakespeare, in particular, had an extraordinary gift for conjuring entire worlds through dialogue alone. Take the opening scene of Hamlet, for example. Two guards—strangers in the dark—exchange terse, cautious words: Barnardo: Who's there? Francisco: Nay, answer me. Stand, and unfold yourself. Barnardo: Long live the King! Francisco: Barnardo? Barnardo: He. From this brief exchange, we learn a great deal about the atmosphere: it's nighttime because the characters are having trouble seeing each other; the air is cold because at least one of the men is wearing a cloak. How can the Early Modern English expression "unfold yourself” be paraphrased to better understand its meaning?

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 point 7 8 dollars "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. What idea is emphasized through repetition?

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." How is Dwaina affected by her conversation with the young man?

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. The author’s words evoke a sense of

Which best describes the author’s purpose in "Dwaina Brooks”?

What could Nico have done to make his oral presentation more effective?

Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Romeo: Ha! banishment! be merciful, say ‘death;’ For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death: do not say ‘banishment.’ Which is the best paraphrase of this dialogue?

Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Friar Laurence: Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man: Affliction is enamour’d of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. What is the meaning of the phrase "thou art wedded to calamity”?

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

What is the goal of the rhetorical appeal in this excerpt?

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. The author’s purpose in this paragraph is to

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. What is the effect of telling the events during the soccer game in chronological order?

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. How is this excerpt structured?

What is emphasized by the alliteration in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from the conclusion of the letter to the editor. We need to urge our city planners to say goodbye to the urban sprawl that has engulfed our nation like a tidal wave in the last few decades, and instead build more traditional mixed-use neighborhoods that were once the building blocks of city infrastructure in our nation. As the authors of Suburban Nation wrote: "We shape our cities and then our cities shape us. The choice is ours whether we build subdivisions that debase the human spirit or neighborhoods that nurture sociability and bring out the best in our nature.” Which rhetorical device does the letter writer use in this paragraph?

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

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

This writing requires a works cited page because

In Act III, scenes iii and iv of Romeo and Juliet , how does Capulet complicate the central conflict?

In Act III, scenes iii and iv of Romeo and Juliet , why does Nurse most likely go to see Friar Laurence and Romeo?

In Act III, scenes iii and iv of Romeo and Juliet , why is Romeo considered the protagonist? Choose two correct answers.

Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Nurse: O Lord! I could have stay’d here all the night To hear good counsel: O! what learning is. My lord, I’ll tell my lady you will come. Romeo: Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide. Nurse: Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir. Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late. [ Exit .] Romeo: How well my comfort is reviv’d by this! Why does Romeo feel "reviv’d,” or comforted?

Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet . Capulet: Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon; O’ Thursday let it be: o’ Thursday, tell her, She shall be married to this noble earl. Will you be ready? do you like this haste? We’ll keep no great ado; a friend or two; For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late, It may be thought we held him carelessly, Being our kinsman, if we revel much. Therefore we’ll have some half a dozen friends, And there an end. But what say you to Thursday? Paris: My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow. Based on this dialogue, how does Paris feel about marrying Juliet?

Which lines from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet show Friar Laurence believes Romeo should be grateful for his nonfatal punishment? Choose three correct answers.

Which excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet best reflects the idea that when a person overlooks what he or she knows is wrong, it can result in a catastrophe?

Read the excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Juliet : Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. [ Exit FRIAR LAURENCE.] What’s here? a cup, clos’d in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after! I will kiss thy lips; Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them, To make me die with a restorative. [ Kisses him .] Which tragic flaw of Juliet’s character is reflected in this excerpt?

Which is the most accurate critique of "The Tell-Tale Heart”?