Simple Sentences: Sentence Parts, Verb Tense, and Verb Voice

Question 1

Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.In the gutters under the eaves and between the shingles of the roofs, a white granular powder still showed a few patches; some weeks before it had fallen like snow upon the roofs and the lawns, the fields and streams.

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T: The powder is an unnatural substance.

Question 2

Read the excerpt from "A Case for Waawaatesi."It’s not just owls. It’s things like frogs, who make it their business to croak at night, particularly when mating. Artificial lights disrupt their mojo and that means less frogs and reduced populations. Sea turtle babies get confused, and migrating birds get confused when they fly with the stars.

Question 3

Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched. The farmers complained that they were unable to raise any pigs—the litters were small and the young survived only a few days. The apple trees were coming into bloom but no bees droned among the blossoms, so there was no pollination and there would be no fruit.

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B: threatening

Question 4

Which best states a comparison of the tones used in these excerpts?

Question 5

Which phrases in the excerpt best support the author’s purpose of creating a positive image of a town? Select five options.

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A: heart of America; B: live in harmony; E: hillsides of orchards; G: blaze of color; H: prosperous farms

Question 6

Read the excerpt from "A Case for Waawaatesi." Think of it this way, your ancestors navigated by the stars, and today most people won’t walk outside without a GPS. That’s a crazy loss of direction or skill at some level for sure. And while Indigenous peoples and many rural peoples can still see the stars, most of the world’s population cannot. That’s particularly an urban thing, where there’s all this light. From my farm, through the open skies, at night I can see the glow of Detroit Lakes, and

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I: It establishes their credibility.

Question 7

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C: Pathos

Question 8

Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.

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t: the dawn chorus of robins

Question 9

Which best describes one main difference between Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Winona LaDuke’s "A Case for Waawaatesi"?

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A: Carson is concerned about the destruction of the entire environment, while LaDuke is only concerned about a certain part of the environment.

Question 10

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B: peaceful

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