AnswersLHS English 9Collaborating Effectively

Collaborating Effectively — Unit test Answers

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Which statement best acknowledges an individual's contributions?

A
“Your idea of adding the timeline to our report helped the others better understand the order of the events.”
B
“Instead of using a bar graph to show the populations of different cities, we should use photographs.”
C
“Rather than using that drawing, let’s print something from the internet that supports our topic.”
D
“Your suggestion to rewrite my introduction needs to be more specific so I understand how to improve it.”
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Some sections of “Initiation” imply that Millicent will decline the sorority’s invitation.

A
her feeling pride in becoming a candidate for the group.
B
her beginning to question the way the group runs its operations.
C
her completing the final challenges in the initiation.
D
her waiting for her moment to confront the members of the sorority.
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The author’s purpose is

A
the primary reason the author wrote the text.
B
the feelings the author has about the text.
C
the thoughts the author has about the text.
D
the conclusions the author draws in the text.
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connotationdenotationmetaphortone

A
connotation
B
denotation
C
metaphor
D
tone
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How do authors present and develop characters? Choose four answers.the way characters are describedthe situations in which the characters interactthe number of characters in each chapterdialogue between charactersconflicts within and between characters

A
the way characters are described
B
the situations in which the characters interact
C
the number of characters in each chapter
D
dialogue between characters
E
conflicts within and between characters
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In “Initiation,” one example of a character vs. self conflict is when Millicent

A
worries about how her actions affect Tracy.
B
feels pressure to go along with the initiation.
C
worries about what orders Bev will give next.
D
feels pressure to accept the sorority’s invitation.
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Read the excerpt from “The Scarlet Ibis.”Doodle was frightened of being left. “Don’t go leave me, Brother,” he cried, and he leaned toward the coffin. His hand, trembling, reached out, and when he touched the casket he screamed. A screech owl flapped out of the box into our faces, scaring us and covering us with Paris green. Doodle was paralyzed, so I put him on my shoulder and carried him down the ladder, and even when we were outside in the bright sunshine, he clung to me, crying, “Don’t leave me. Don’t leave me.”

A
Once the narrator returns to school, he leaves Doodle at home and forgets all of his plans to help him.
B
After Doodle refuses to touch the casket, the narrator refuses to help Doodle and leaves him alone in the loft.
C
Later in the story, the narrator races ahead and leaves Doodle to struggle behind during a terrible storm.
D
When Doodle struggles to learn to walk, the narrator leaves and Doodle is left sitting alone in Old Woman Swamp.
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What is the purpose of using precise language?

A
to use high-level words
B
to use the fewest words possible
C
to make wording more accurate
D
to be as formal as possible
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Read the following passage from "The Caged Bird.”But a bird that stalksdown his narrow cagecan seldom see throughhis bars of ragehis wings are clipped andhis feet are tiedso he opens his throat to sing.

A
the stem or main axis of a plant
B
the slender supporting part of anything
C
to pursue or approach prey stealthily
D
to walk with measured, stiff strides
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".But Laura had gotten used to the life here. She did not want to go back to the old country where, de la Torre or not, she was only a wife and a mother (and a failed one at that, since she had never provided the required son). Better an independent nobody than a high-class houseslave. She did not come straight out and disagree with her husband's plans. Instead, she fussed with him about reading the papers in bed, soiling their sheets with those poorly printed, foreign tabloids. "The Times is not that bad!" she'd claim if her husband tried to humor her by saying they shared the same dirty habit.

A
She becomes an independent nobody and decides to reject her role as a high-class housewife and mother.
B
She reads the newspapers with her husband to keep up on Dominican politics and plans a return to their homeland.
C
Instead of getting used to her new life in America, she secretly hopes that her husband will return the family to the Dominican Republic.
D
Instead of openly disagreeing with her husband’s desire to return to the Dominican Republic, she criticizes the foreign papers he reads.
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Read the passage from “The Caged Bird.”A free bird leapson the back of the windand floats downstreamtill the current endsand dips his wingin the orange sun raysand dares to claim the sky.

A
It creates images of freedom.
B
It creates images of oppression.
C
It emphasizes a sense of fantasy.
D
It emphasizes a sense of arrogance.
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What does it mean to "compromise”?

A
to make an agreement to use the best idea
B
to vote on an idea and let the majority win
C
to settle a disagreement by meeting in the middle
D
to agree that one person will make key decisions
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characterizationconflictidiominterpretation

A
characterization
B
conflict
C
idiom
D
interpretation

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