Practice Test Answers

How does Anita support the idea that electric cars are the only solution to owning a vehicle?

How does the use of antithesis further the argument?

Which statement best explains Clinton’s use of parallelism?

Which statement is an example of a straw man fallacy based on this debate?

Which source would most likely give him accurate information? Jerome wants to write a paper about the cardiovascular system.

A claim is an author’s

Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert that they usurp its throne only to be useful. Do you not act a similar part, when you force all women, by denying them civil and political rights, to remain immured in their families groping in the dark? For surely, Sir, you will not assert, that a duty can be binding which is not founded on reason? If indeed this be their destination, arguments may be drawn from reason: and thus augustly supported, the more understanding women acquire, the more they will be attached to their duty—comprehending it—for unless they comprehend it, unless their morals be fixed on the same immutable principle as those of man, no authority can make them discharge it in a virtuous manner. What is the central idea of the excerpt?

What central idea is explicitly stated in the paragraph?

Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato. Why, I said, that which is healthy causes health, and that which is unhealthy causes disease. Which rhetorical device is used in this excerpt?

Which element of bias is used in the excerpt?

Consider this chart comparing the print and radio versions of The War of the Worlds . H.G Wells's novel Orson Welles's radio adaptation Tone: fearful, curious Tone: fearful, alarmed Mood: suspenseful, intriguing Mood: suspenseful, panicked Narration: one narrator, past tense Narration: Which description of the narration in the Orson Welles Radio adaptation best completes the chart?

Read the excerpt from H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds . A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. As it bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather. Two large dark-coloured eyes were regarding me steadfastly. The mass that framed them, the head of the thing, was rounded, and had, one might say, a face. There was a mouth under the eyes, the lipless brim of which quivered and panted, and dropped saliva. Which statement best describes how Wells conveys his purpose with this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50 percent chance of staying below 1 point 5 degrees [Celsius], and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control. How does the speaker’s use of logos support her argument?

Read the excerpt from "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell. But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better. The debased language that I have been discussing is in some ways very convenient. Phrases like a not unjustifiable assumption, leaves much to be desired, would serve no good purpose, a consideration which we should do well to bear in mind , are a continuous temptation, a packet of aspirins always at one’s elbow. Which type of evidence is used in this excerpt?

Which type of evidence does the Clinton use in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato. And our State must once more enlarge; and this time the enlargement will be nothing short of a whole army, which will have to go out and fight with the invaders for all that we have, as well as for the things and persons whom we were describing above. Why? he said; are they not capable of defending themselves? No, I said; not if we were right in the principle which was acknowledged by all of us when we were framing the State: the principle, as you will remember, was that one man cannot practise many arts with success. Read the excerpt from Utopia by Sir Thomas More. The chief, and almost the only, business of the Syphogrants is to take care that no man may live idle, but that every one may follow his trade diligently; yet they do not wear themselves out with perpetual toil from morning to night, as if they were beasts of burden, which as it is indeed a heavy slavery, so it is everywhere the common course of life amongst all mechanics except the Utopians. Which rhetorical device do Plato and More use in these excerpts?