Practice Test Answers

Read the sentence. The works of Charles Dickens a famous British writer include David Copperfield and Oliver Twist . Which is the best revision of this sentence?

Choose the correct version of the sentence.

Which source would best support an argumentative essay on the importance of protective gear for those playing sports?

Which topic would prompt an argumentative essay?

Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall." Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. Whom does the speaker blame for the gaps in the wall?

Which lines from "Mending Wall" indicate that the neighbor is willing to participate in mending the wall?

Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper." He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on. “You know the place is doing you good,” he said, “and really, dear, I don’t care to renovate the house just for a three months’ rental.” Based on this excerpt, which statement best describes John’s viewpoint of the wallpaper?

What does the narrator’s description of the wallpaper in "The Yellow Wallpaper" reveal about her worldview?