Practice Test Answers

Read the definitions. bio = life anthrop = human micro- = small meteoro = high in the air -logy = study of Which word is spelled correctly?

Read the sentence. Luz has written several poems about her travels to Mexico. Which verb tense is underlined?

Read the sentence. Keisha will run in the spring 5K race, so she had started a training program next Monday. Which correction of the underlined verb phrase fixes the inappropriate shift in tense in this sentence?

How are prefixes and suffixes alike? Choose two correct answers.

Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun . MAMA: Lord have mercy, baby. You done gone and bought your grandmother a hat? TRAVIS ( very proud ) : Open it! She does and lifts out an elaborate, but very elaborate, wide gardening hat, and all the adults break up at the sight of it. RUTH: Travis, honey, what is that? TRAVIS ( who thinks it is beautiful and appropriate ) : It's a gardening hat! Like the ladies always have on in the magazines when they work in their gardens. BENEATHA ( giggling fiercely ) : Travis—we were trying to make Mama Mrs. Miniver—not Scarlett O'Hara! MAMA ( indignantly ) : What's the matter with you all! This here is a beautiful hat! ( Absurdly. ) I always wanted me one just like it! She pops it on her head to prove it to her grandson, and the hat is ludicrous and considerably oversized. RUTH: Hot dog! Go, Mama! WALTER ( doubled over with laughter ) : I'm sorry, Mama—but you look like you ready to go out and chop you some cotton sure enough! They all laugh except Mama, out of deference to Travis’s feelings. MAMA (gathering the boy up to her) : Bless your heart—this is the prettiest hat I ever owned— How would the tone change if the word sarcastically replaced the stage direction absurdly ?

Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun . RUTH: Why don't you answer the door, man WALTER ( suddenly bounding across the floor to embrace her ) : 'Cause sometimes it hard to let the future begin! ( Stooping down in her face .) I got wings! You got wings! All God's children got wings! He crosses to the door and throws it open. Standing there is a very slight little man in a not-too-prosperous business suit and with haunted frightened eyes and a hat pulled down tightly, brim up, around his forehead. TRAVIS passes between the men and exits. WALTER leans deep in the man's face, still in his jubilance. When I get to heaven gonna put on my wings, Gonna fly all over God's heaven . . . The little man just stares at him. Heaven— Suddenly he stops and looks past the little man into the empty hallway. Where's Willy, man? BOBO: He ain't with me. Which quotation from the text best supports the theme that changes can be both exciting and unnerving?

Read the excerpt from Pygmalion and Galatea by Josephine Preston Peabody. Day after day the ivory maiden looked down at him silently, and he looked back at her until he felt that he loved her more than anything else in the world. He thought of her no longer as a statue, but as the dear companion of his life; and the whim grew upon him like an enchantment. He named her Galatea, and arrayed her like a princess; he hung jewels about her neck, and made all his home beautiful and fit for such a presence. Read the excerpt from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. MRS. HIGGINS: Be quiet, Henry. Colonel Pickering: don’t you realize that when Eliza walked into Wimpole Street, something walked in with her? PICKERING: Her father did. But Henry soon got rid of him. MRS. HIGGINS: It would have been more to the point if her mother had. But as her mother didn’t something else did. PICKERING: But what? MRS. HIGGINS: [unconsciously dating herself by the word] A problem. PICKERING: Oh, I see. The problem of how to pass her off as a lady. HIGGINS: I’ll solve that problem. I’ve half solved it already. MRS. HIGGINS: No, you two infinitely stupid male creatures: the problem of what is to be done with her afterwards. HIGGINS: I don’t see anything in that. She can go her own way, with all the advantages I have given her. Based on the excerpts, what is the biggest difference between Galatea and Eliza?

Read the excerpt from Pygmalion and Galatea by Josephine Preston Peabody. He drew near in wonder and delight, and felt, instead of the chill air that was wont to wake him out of his spell, a gentle warmth around her, like the breath of a plant. He touched her hand, and it yielded like the hand of one living! Doubting his senses, yet fearing to reassure himself, Pygmalion kissed the statue. In an instant the maiden’s face bloomed like a waking rose, her hair shone golden as returning sunlight; she lifted her ivory eyelids and smiled at him. The statue herself had awakened, and she stepped down from the pedestal, into the arms of her creator, alive! There was a dream that came true. Read the excerpt from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. LIZA: [defiantly non-resistant]. . . . Aha! Now I know how to deal with you. What a fool I was not to think of it before! You can’t take away the knowledge you gave me. You said I had a finer ear than you. And I can be civil and kind to people, which is more than you can. Aha! That’s done you, Henry Higgins, it has. Now I don’t care that [snapping her fingers] for your bullying and your big talk. I’ll advertize it in the papers that your duchess is only a flower girl that you taught, and that she’ll teach anybody to be a duchess just the same in six months for a thousand guineas. Oh, when I think of myself crawling under your feet and being trampled on and called names, when all the time I had only to lift up my finger to be as good as you, I could just kick myself. HIGGINS: [wondering at her]. . . . By George, Eliza, I said I’d make a woman of you; and I have. I like you like this. LIZA: Yes: you turn round and make up to me now that I’m not afraid of you, and can do without you. How does Eliza differ from Galatea in these excerpts?