Practice Test

Question 1

What is the couplet pattern in both “The Author to Her Book” and “A Hymn to the Evening”?

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D: consecutive pairs of rhyming lines

Question 2

In "The Author to Her Book", the main reason Bradstreet uses inversion is to

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B: complete the rhyme scheme.

Question 3

Read this excerpt from "The World on Turtle's Back." The animals thought that perhaps there was dirt at the depths of the ocean, but they had never tried to reach the bottom before. One by one they tried to swim down, but their attempts were futile. Finally, the muskrat disappeared into the cold depth of the ocean. After a lengthy amount of time, he drifted to the surface with a tiny speck of earth in his hand. He appeared to be dead, but the animals prayed and chanted, and finally he stirred. The Earth-Diver was successful in bringing forth the soil to make the earth grow. Based on this excerpt, which character trait was valued by the Iroquois?

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B: faith

Question 4

Read this excerpt from "The World on Turtle's Back." These two brothers had creative powers, and with these powers they took clay and modeled it into animals. They used these animals to contend with one another. Each brother created a more powerful or more cunning animal than the next. They also created fruits, plants, and medicines for good and for evil. Finally, the right-handed twin made man. It is unknown whether or not the left-handed twin assisted in the creation of man. Man was the right-handed twin's favorite creation. How does this support the idea that "The World on Turtle's Back" is a creation myth?

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D: It explains the origin of people, animals, and plants.

Question 5

Which of the following best describes this paragraph?

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A: Each sentence begins with an independent clause.

Question 6

Which is the best example of a vivid sensory detail?

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C: “as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs”

Question 7

Fill in the blanks in order.

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D: seemed . . . . are

Question 8

Which is an example of a sentence fragment?

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D: Thomas Paine’s  Common Sense , which was published in 1776.

Question 9

What is paraphrasing?

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B: restating a text in different words

Question 10

Which phrase describes a reason paraphrasing is used?

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C: to make a complex idea easier to understand

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