Practice Test

Question 1

Which task is the responsibility of the moderator of a formal discussion, but not the other participants?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: creating an agenda for the discussion

Question 2

Based on the dialect used throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , which of the following statements about the characters within the story is most accurate?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

D: The king’s use of dialect suggests that he may not actually be a king and is simply posing as one.

Question 3

Read the judge’s words from chapter 23 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . "We are sold—mighty badly sold. But we don't want to be the laughing stock of this whole town, I reckon, and never hear the last of this thing as long as we live. No. What we want is to go out of here quiet, and talk this show up, and sell the rest of the town! Then we'll all be in the same boat. Ain't that sensible?" What is ironic about the judge’s statement?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: Rather than admit they have been fooled, the townspeople truly believe it is more sensible to devise a plan to fool the others as well.

Question 4

Read the excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. Which best describes the impact of the author’s repetitive use of words that suggest similar ideas, such as “go,” “search,” and “roam”?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: They remind readers of the great scope of the argument.

Question 5

Read the excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? What is the purpose of this rhetorical question as it used by Douglass?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: It is designed to introduce an idea.

Question 6

Which best describes the relationship between "Ain't I a Woman?" and the women’s suffrage movement?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: The speech and the movement both advocate for equal rights.

Question 7

Which statement from "Ain't I a Woman?" is an example of pathos?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me!

Question 8

Read the quote from "My Heart Is Bursting." Two years ago I made peace with Generals Harney, Sanborn, and Colonel Leavenworth at the mouth of the Little Arkansas. That peace I have never broken. What cultural view is most reflected in this quotation?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: the value of promises

Question 9

How does the passionate tone adopted by Set'tainte (Satanta) within the speech "My Heart Is Bursting" most help him achieve his purpose?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: It strengthens his ability to persuade through emotions.

Question 10

Read the excerpt from "Elegy for the Native Guards.” Inside we follow the ranger, hurried though we are to get to the beach. He tells of graves lost in the Gulf, the island split on half when Hurricane Camille hit, shows us casemates, cannons, the store that sells souvenirs, tokens of history long buried. 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? Which universal theme is reflected in the excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: the impact of the past on the present

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