The Power of Humor - Test Test Answers

A student is completing a research-based expository essay on the history of presidential campaigns. Which steps take place in the prewriting stage? Choose three correct answers.

Erick is writing a research-based expository essay on the benefits of learning to code early in life. Which topic sentence most effectively introduces his essay?

Which statements are true of realistic fiction? Choose three correct answers.

Why is it helpful to examine the tone of a sonnet?

What is the definition of situational irony?

How many lines are in a Shakespearian sonnet?

What evidence supports the conclusion that "The Storyteller” uses satire to impart the theme that adults should respect children’s intelligence? Choose two correct answers.

Read the excerpts from Does My Head Look Big in This? and Persepolis . Excerpt from Does My Head Look Big in This? : Forget sanity if you're the only one with a pass to sit in the back of church during service. Well, not every time. I remember once when I attended confession. I was in fourth grade. I was standing with my class in line to take the Eucharist. I wasn’t supposed to be in line but I didn’t feel like sitting like a loner in the back pew till the end of the service. Excerpt from Persepolis : Expand Image Which statement is true about the narrators’ different perspectives?

This question has two parts. First, answer Part 1. Then, answer Part 2. Part 1 Read the excerpt from Does My Head Look Big in This? I can’t stop thinking about Hidaya and I feel sick with longing for my friends and teachers. Sick with longing for a school where we learned what every other student in any other Melbourne school learned but we could also pray and fast and wear a hijab and keep on being a teenager without having to answer questions or defend ourselves against news headlines. Where we sang “Advance Australia Fair” every morning at assembly and got detention if we didn’t take it seriously. Where we could deal with puberty and the teenage angst thing and have crushes and go on diets without being a prefix to terrorism, extremism, radicalism, any ism. What is the overall tone in this passage?

Part 2 Which words from the passage best support the correct answer to Part 1?

Read the excerpt from Persepolis . Expand Image What is the central idea of these panels?

Read the excerpt from Persepolis . Expand Image What is the central idea of these panels?

Read the excerpt from Persepolis . Expand Image How does the middle row of panels help develop the central idea of this page?

Read the excerpt from Persepolis . Expand Image What is the central idea of this page?

Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 100.” The underlined section is referred to as a(n)

Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 19.” Which features make this an example of a Shakespearean sonnet? Choose three correct answers.

Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 19.” Which is the best paraphrase of the line 9?

Read the excerpt from "The Open Window." In the deepening twilight three figures were walking across the lawn towards the window; they all carried guns under their arms, and one of them was additionally burdened with a white coat hung over his shoulders. A tired brown spaniel kept close at their heels. Noiselessly they neared the house, and then a hoarse young voice chanted out of the dusk: "I said, Bertie, why do you bound?” Framton grabbed wildly at his stick and hat; the hall-door, the gravel-drive, and the front gate were dimly-noted stages in his headlong retreat. A cyclist coming along the road had to run into the hedge to avoid an imminent collision. "Here we are, my dear,” said the bearer of the white mackintosh, coming in through the window; "fairly muddy, but most of it’s dry. Who was that who bolted out as we came up?” "A most extraordinary man, a Mr. Nuttel,” said Mrs. Sappleton; "could only talk about his illnesses, and dashed off without a word of good-bye or apology when you arrived. One would think he had seen a ghost.” "I expect it was the spaniel,” said the niece calmly; "he told me he had a horror of dogs. He was once hunted into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of pariah dogs, and had to spend the night in a newly dug grave with the creatures snarling and grinning and foaming just above him. Enough to make anyone lose their nerve.” Romance at short notice was her specialty. How does the author use characterization to create satire?

Read the excerpt from "The Open Window." "Her great tragedy happened just three years ago,” said the child; "that would be since your sister’s time.” "Her tragedy?” asked Framton; somehow in this restful country spot tragedies seemed out of place. "You may wonder why we keep that window wide open on an October afternoon,” said the niece, indicating a large French window that opened on to a lawn. "It is quite warm for the time of the year,” said Framton; "but has that window got anything to do with the tragedy?” "Out through that window, three years ago to a day, her husband and her two young brothers went off for their day’s shooting. They never came back. In crossing the moor to their favourite snipe-shooting ground they were all three engulfed in a treacherous piece of bog. It had been that dreadful wet summer, you know, and places that were safe in other years gave way suddenly without warning. Their bodies were never recovered. That was the dreadful part of it.” Here the child’s voice lost its self-possessed note and became falteringly human. "Poor aunt always thinks that they will come back some day, they and the little brown spaniel that was lost with them, and walk in at that window just as they used to do. That is why the window is kept open every evening till it is quite dusk. Poor dear aunt, she has often told me how they went out, her husband with his white waterproof coat over his arm, and Ronnie, her youngest brother, singing, ‘Bertie, why do you bound?’ as he always did to tease her, because she said it got on her nerves. Do you know, sometimes on still, quiet evenings like this, I almost get a creepy feeling that they will all walk in through that window—” She broke off with a little shudder. It was a relief to Framton when the aunt bustled into the room with a whirl of apologies for being late in making her appearance. "I hope Vera has been amusing you?” she said. "She has been very interesting,” said Framton. "I hope you don’t mind the open window,” said Mrs. Sappleton briskly; "my husband and brothers will be home directly from shooting, and they always come in this way. They’ve been out for snipe in the marshes today, so they’ll make a fine mess over my poor carpets. So like you men-folk, isn’t it?” She rattled on cheerfully about the shooting and the scarcity of birds, and the prospects for duck in the winter. To Framton it was all purely horrible. What is an example of situational irony in the excerpt?

Which change should the student have made to the writing process?

To follow MLA citation rules properly, what does the author of this essay need to do?

What is the best way to revise the paragraph to connect ideas?

Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 100.” What is the rhyme scheme of the second quatrain?