Part 3: Text Structure in an Informational Text

Question 1

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.The Elizabethan theater as we know it develops slowly. In 1562 the play Gorboduc, the first English play to include blank verse, is performed in front of the queen at the Inner Temple in London. This is written by two gentlemen, Thomas Sackville (the future earl of Dorset) and Thomas Norton, and leaves a lasting impression. Its tale of a kingdom torn between two heirs has great significance for the audience of the day. Other plays follow, drawing on classical themes as well as on ancient British and medieval history, written by (among others) John Heywood, John Pickering, and Lewis Wager. A sign of their success is the construction in 1567 of the first purpose-built theater, the Red Lion, built by John Brayne in Whitechapel.

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D: Gorboduc was performed in front of the queen.

Question 2

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 3

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.In their stead, people increasingly choose to see secular plays on historical and moral themes. These are performed up and down the country by theater companies called after lords, for example "Lord Sussex’s Men,” "Lord Strange’s Men,” "the Lord Admiral’s Men,” and "Lord Leicester’s Men.” The reason for these names is that, while unattached actors are liable to be arrested for vagrancy, the Act of 1572 specifically excludes players properly authorized by lords from being considered vagabonds.

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A: the Act of 1572

Question 4

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 5

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

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C: words or dates

Question 6

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

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D: text structure and style.

Question 7

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.In 1587 Thomas Kyd produces The Spanish Tragedy, and soon afterward Christopher Marlowe brings out the first part of Tamburlaine the Great. . . . They employ new verse forms, allowing different spoken rhythms, and compose bold speeches with greater resonance and meaning. The new conceptual framework of a revenge tragedy in particular allows them to portray powerful emotions voiced by strong characters. Suddenly it is possible to show so much more passion on the stage.

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B: the new verse forms and conceptual framework

Question 8

Which of the following sentences signals a sequence of events?

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C: "Eight years later Francis Langley erects the Swan . . ."

Question 9

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.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. Most important of all, Shakespeare, Richard and Cuthbert Burbage, and their partners dismantle The Theatre and remove its beams to a new site at Southwark, where it is rebuilt in 1599 as the Globe. When Edward Alleyn builds the Fortune on the northern edge of the city in 1600, the array of Elizabethan theaters is complete.

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D: by listing in chronological order when several important theaters were built.

Question 10

What should a reader consider when tracing chronological text structure? Select 3 options.the meaning behind the eventsthe causal relationships between eventsthe responses and reactions to eventsthe factors that influence eventsthe author's purpose in describing the events

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