Part 3: Text Structure in an Informational Text

Question 1

Which excerpt most effectively conveys a conversational and engaging tone?

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C: "You will see people standing in hats with pipes in hand, and women in their headdresses, all chatting, with an eye open for people they know."

Question 2

Descriptive details help the reader

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D: envision a concept or scenario.

Question 3

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.In 1574 the city authorities are given powers to restrict playhouses, forcing the actors to find new premises in the suburbs. This becomes a golden opportunity for John Brayne and his brother-in-law, James Burbage, who in 1576 build a new theater, simply called The Theatre, at Shoreditch, just half a mile north of Bishopsgate. The following year a second theater, the Curtain, is built just two hundred yards away. Despite some heavy opposition from Puritan preachers and moralists, both theaters are successful.

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C: Because city authorities restricted playhouses, new theaters were built outside city limits and grew to be successful.

Question 4

Organization, tone, and word choice should be considered when evaluating effective

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D: text structure and style.

Question 5

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.These [the miracle plays] go out of favor when the privy council decrees that they are too close to Catholicism and should stop. Those at York cease in 1569. In Chester the citizens defy the privy council and continue performing their play about Noah’s Flood well into the 1570s. The Coventry mystery plays are finally suppressed in 1579, so this is the town to visit if you want to catch one later in the reign. The Guary miracle play in Cornwall continues for some years but is so amateurish it can hardly be seen as a threat.

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A: The plays being performed in York ceased.

Question 6

Which sentence most effectively helps readers envision a scene?

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C: "If you are sitting in the gallery you will have a clear view of the stage as it projects out from the far side of the round enclosure."

Question 7

What does a chronological text structure use to signal the sequence of time?

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C: words or dates

Question 8

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.More theaters open their doors to the public. The Rose is built by Philip Henslowe at Southwark, not far from the bear-baiting and bull-baiting arenas, in 1587. Eight years later Francis Langley erects the Swan on a site nearby; and in 1596 Richard Burbage builds the Blackfriars Theatre, an indoor venue, although it does not open its doors until 1599.

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D: Blackfriars

Question 9

Which option shows the text signaling the sequence of events?

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A: "At the start of the reign the majority of productions are miracle plays . . ."

Question 10

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.By the end of the reign he [Jonson] has married, had two children and lost one, tried to become an actor and failed, become a playwright, been arrested for a scurrilous play and released, killed another actor in a duel, been arrested again and put on trial for murder, and escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy. The play for which he is arrested, The Isle of Dogs, coauthored with Thomas Nashe, is so slanderous and offensive that the privy council orders the closure not just of the play but of every theater in London.

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B: Jonson and Nashe writing The Isle of Dogs

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