Practice Test Answers

Which bias does the author show in presenting data about excessive screen use?

Which source is not credible? A student is researching the effects of sugar on teenagers.

What is one reason that an author may choose to relate events in memoir form?

Look at the frames from One War Ends, Another Begins . Open image in full-screen view Open image in full-screen view In these frames, the author emphasizes the challenges Clara faced by showing

Is this an example of a formal or informal inquiry?

What should be added to the research plan?

Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe". Pyramus had left a little later than his Thisbe had, and he could see what surely were the tracks of a wild beast left clearly on deep dust. His face grew ashen. And when he had found the bloodstained shawl, he cried: "Now this same night will see two lovers lose their lives: she was the one more worthy of long life: it's I who bear the guilt for this. Which statement best describes how the order of events creates tension?

Read the excerpt from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet . Juliet : If they do see thee, they will murder thee. Romeo : Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity. Juliet : I would not for the world they saw thee here. Romeo : I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight; And but thou love me, let them find me here: My life were better ended by their hate, Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love How are the themes of Romeo and Juliet and Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe" similar?

Read the excerpt from “Clara Barton’s Childhood.” In the evening, after dinner, the family would gather near the fireplace, with its thick hand-cut mantel and river rock surround. With mother in her rocking chair, knitting, and her sister Sally on the sofa with a book, Clara would perch in the armchair on her father’s knee, next to the crackling fire, and listen as he regaled her with tales of his service. Based on the descriptive details in the passage, what inferences can be made about the setting? Select three answers.

Read the excerpt from “Clara Barton’s Childhood.” First, with shining eyes and bated breath, she learned to cross the little winding French river on teetering logs at its most dangerous depths. When this sport grew tame, she made her way to the local sawmill where she delighted to ride the carriage which conveyed the logs to the old-fashioned up-and-down saw. The carriage moved very slowly when it was going forward and the saw was eating its laborious way through the log, but it came back with violent rapidity. Which details from the excerpt best indicate that Clara’s actions were risky? Select three answers.

Read the excerpts from "Wrongful Convictions” by John R. Firman and Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. "Wrongful Convictions” [In addition, we need to look at] post-arrest case review . . . the team will sit down and say, "Let us go back and look for any potential red flags, where we can say that even though we’ve hung our hat on this case and we think this is the right person, this is the right offender, then the bottom line is, let’s go back, let’s stop, let’s just stop everything, get the checklist out—just like pilots do, just like doctors do—and say, ‘What do we have here? What does this case really look like?’” Just Mercy The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it’s necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and—perhaps—we all need some measure of unmerited grace. Which word best describes the tone in both excerpts?

Read the excerpt from "Wrongful Convictions” by John R. Firman. We look at police organizational culture all the time. We are fairly positive about that culture. . . . [However,] if you have invested in your general direction of a case, then the information coming over here from another direction has to be just as interesting to you, just as important to you as that that you’ve been working on over here. . . . Preventing and correcting. There was also a clear drive at the summit to say, "Let’s prevent as much as we can, but let us go back and correct when we need to.” The last thing and fairly obvious was, the justice system begins with law enforcement. . . . So law enforcement is in the position to be at the very front of the continuum, so responsibility rests with law enforcement, certainly to start that process. And if they have started that process incorrectly, erroneously for whatever reason, it’s going to process through the rest of the system in a troublesome way. Which detail from the excerpt best supports the claim that it is impossible to change the justice system without changing policing?

Read this excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bull-dozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned. What inference can be made about Della from this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi." Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty’s jewels and gifts. This excerpt is an example of which kind of characterization?