Writing Coherent Sentences — Unit test

Question 1

Read the sentenceGordon gently persuaded his grandfather to play checkers.

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coaxed

Question 2

In Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy,how does the time period of 1912 contribute to the main conflict in the novel?

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Racism against African Americans by whites was the norm at that time.

Question 3

Which best contrasts the way language is used in My Story and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?

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The memoir uses everyday language; the poem uses literary language.

Question 4

Which revisions for the underlined phrase make the writing more precise? Select two answers.

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created powerful speeches; crafted meaningful speeches

Question 5

Read the excerpt from Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.He spread his arms wide against the ocean sounds: the rush of the waves, the manic giggles of the gulls, the sighing of the sea breeze against the granite. He put his back to all of Phippsburg—Lord, to the entire continent—till with a shrug he sloughed off its heavy stillness and looked for a way to climb down to the water. . . . [F]inally he was down on the beach, breathing hard and deep, like something that was only just coming alive and drinking in the liquid air for the first delicious time.

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Turner feels stifled in the town but free in the open air of the beach.

Question 6

Read the excerpt from Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.He had seen the island from the far ledges, standing with his father and Sheriff Elwell and Deacon Hurd and everyone else important in the town. A stony beach, a stony ledge or two, some pines—a few toppled over with their heads in the water, a few tilted, most of them still straight. There had seemed nothing on the island that would set anyone but a gull to wishing that he could live there.But coming on it now, from the water, with Lizzie stroking and angling her way to the point, Turner felt as if he was on the brink of a discovery. . . . Turner felt the world moving slowly and anciently beneath him, and he began to sway back and forth with the waves, with the trees, with the rolling globe itself.

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the Phippsburg townspeople, who do not think much of Malaga Island, and Turner, who comes to love the island.

Question 7

Which sentence contains a nonrestrictive clause?

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The old apron, which belonged to Mama, is torn.

Question 8

Which sentence is written correctly?

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Milo’s puppies are still with their mother.

Question 9

Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.One afternoon, after another dreary Sunday, he walked home from Mrs. Cobb's with the sea breeze determined to shove him to Malaga Island. It scooted around him and pulled at his ears. It threw up the dust of the road into his face to turn him around, and when he leaned into it, it suddenly let go and pushed at him from behind, laughing. But with the iron word forbidden tolling like a heavy bell by his ears, Turner would not let himself be brought to Malaga. And so with a last abrupt kick, the sea breeze twisted around and left him. Turner watched it rushing pell-mell down Parker Head and toward the shore. "Go find Lizzie," he whispered.

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Turner is referred to as “he,” and the reader is able to hear his thoughts and feelings.

Question 10

Which phrase from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I have a Dream” speech contains the strongest emotional connotations?

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“seared in the flames of withering injustice”

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