Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” What’s interesting, I think, and what gives me hope and keeps me optimistic about our people, however, is to look and see how our people dealt with that after removal. After removal, we ended up in Indian Territory. Everything we’d ever known had been left behind, that which bound us as a people: the cultural system, the social system, and the political system, everything we’d ever known had been left behind. Many people were dead, families were bitterly divided over the issue of removal itself, and yet almost immediately after removal, our people began to try to come together and build a community and rebuild a tribe. Which sentence best integrates a direct quotation from the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” If you look at history from a native perspective, and I know that’s very difficult for you to do, the most powerful, or one of the most powerful countries in the world as a policy first tried to wipe us off the face of the earth. And then, failing that, instituted a number of policies to make sure that we didn’t exist in 1993 as a culturally distinct group of people, and yet here we are. Not only do we exist, but we’re thriving and we’re growing, and we’re learning now to trust our own thinking again and dig our way out. Which statement best paraphrases the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "'Why do I love' You, Sir?". The Wind does not require the Grass To answer—Wherefore when He pass She cannot keep Her place. What is being described in these lines?
Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall." We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!" We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. What does the line “And some are loaves and some so nearly balls” refer to?
Which best explains why Melville begins Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick with a description of Ahab’s physical absence above the ship’s hatches for several days?
Read the excerpt from "Elegy for the Native Guards.” The Daughters of the Confederacy has placed a plaque here, at the fort’s entrance— each Confederate soldier’s name raised hard in bronze; no names carved for the Native Guards— 2nd Regiment, Union men, black phalanx. What is monument to their legacy? What does this excerpt demonstrate about the impact of the past on the present?
Read the sentence. Since Americans are obsessed with the latest cell phones and gadgets, the government should tax technological purchases. Which word in the sentence best appeals to emotions and logic?
Which sentence makes the best use of a transitional word or phrase?
Read the sentence. The president of the company was attending the mandatory sales meeting. Which type of phrase or clause is underlined in the sentence?
How does President Wilson build his argument and persuade his listeners in "War Message to Congress"?
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