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Part 3: Text Structure in an Informational Text — Unit test Answers

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Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.People believe that the balance of the humors is also upset by eating too much or too little of something. As noted in the previous chapter, Thomas Elyot believes that fish and fresh fruit are bad for you, and that white bread is more nutritious than bread with the bran. William Horman maintains that drinking cold liquids after prolonged activity is very dangerous for the health. Richard Carew states that the "eating of fish,

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It details how diet could disrupt the balance of humors.
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It explains that fresh fish may cause liver disease.
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It discourages the use of cold liquids after activity.
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It recommends eliminating fresh fruit from a healthy diet.
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domain
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style
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tone
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Read the passage.If you’re looking for a place to visit, I recommend Yosemite National Park. Visiting Yosemite has been a high point of my life. Can you imagine waking up, inhaling the pine-scented air, and watching the pink-tinted mountains reflect the sunrise? Later, as you hike, you’ll encounter meadows strewn with rainbows of wildflowers and lakes in astonishing shades of blue.

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defines Yosemite for the reader.
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helps the author entertain the reader.
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instructs the reader on how to enjoy Yosemite.
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supports the author’s attempt to persuade.
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Read the sentence.We laughed when we read the writing from that TV show.

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to clarify the point of view.
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to create precise wording.
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to improve the tone.
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to change the style.
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Read the excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.When the King and his knights came into the hall,The chanting in the chapel had come to an endAnd a loud cry went up from the clerics and the othersProclaiming Noel once more, calling out the word again,And then the nobles ran and got the gifts ready . . .

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the importance of Christian practices
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the acts of warfare over land rights
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the proper conduct of knights
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the subjects’ loyalty to their lords
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Which type of figurative language animates objects and ideas?

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personification
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metaphor
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adaptation
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simile
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Read the excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.The men charged in tournaments again and again,Noble knights jousting in high spirits;Then they rode to the court and danced to carols,And the feast went on like that a full fifteen days,With all the food and entertainment anyone could imagine.The laughter and merrymaking were a glory to hear . . .

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They fight ruthlessly.
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They celebrate festively.
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They are devout Christians.
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They are boastful and vain.
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Read the literary analysis paragraph.Shakespeare’s writing style reveals information about attitudes toward the landscape. His precise word choice provides detailed descriptions of the outdoors. In Titus Andronicus, he uses words like "ruthless," "vast," and "gloomy" to describe forests. Although he is known as the "playwright’s playwright," Shakespeare could have been a travel guide.

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Shakespeare’s writing style reveals information about attitudes toward the landscape.
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His precise word choice provides detailed descriptions of the outdoors.
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In Titus Andronicus, he uses words like "ruthless," "vast," and "gloomy" to describe forests.
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Although he is known as the "playwright’s playwright," Shakespeare could have been a travel guide.
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Which statements describe the central ideas of a text? Select three choices.They explain helpful details.They are the most important ideas in a text.They give examples of key ideas.They are supported by details.They can be explicitly stated or implied.

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They explain helpful details.
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They are the most important ideas in a text.
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They give examples of key ideas.
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They are supported by details.
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They can be explicitly stated or implied.
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Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.Simon Forman, who does attend plague sufferers, is a rare exception: this is because he has himself survived the disease and believes he cannot catch it again. However, his remedy amounts to little more than avoiding eating onions and keeping warm. He has a recipe for getting rid of the plague sores that will afflict you afterward if you survive the disease; but that is a very big "if.” It seems the best advice is provided by

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Keeping warm and eating onions was the only way to avoid the plague. This treatment was recommended by Nicholas Bownd.
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Some Elizabethans believed that diet caused the plague. Nicholas Bownd suggested praying to God as the only cure.
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Writer Simon Forman believed that God was the only answer to the plague. He survived the disease and ate warm onions to treat his sores.
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While doctors like Simon Forman tried to help, others such as Nicholas Bownd relied on their faith in God.
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Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.When the trumpets sound, most people quieten down, waiting for the play to begin. If you are sitting in the gallery you will have a clear view of the stage as it projects out from the far side of the round enclosure. Leading actors will come right out along this platform and deliver their soliloquies directly to the crowd. So too will a clown like Will Kempe, when he wishes to extemporize and make "a scurvy face.” There are t

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The author uses a serious tone and a third-person point of view to effectively describe the experience.
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The author uses descriptive details and a first-person point of view to effectively describe the experience.
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The author uses a critical tone and a third-person point of view to effectively describe the experience.
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The author uses descriptive details and a second-person point of view to effectively describe the experience.
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Read the excerpt from Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory.Then Sir Bedivere returned again, and took the sword in his hand; and then him thought sin and shame to throw away that noble sword . . .Read the excerpt from "Morte d'Arthur” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.Then went Sir Bedivere the second timeAcross the ridge, and paced beside the mere,Counting the dewy pebbles, fix’d in thought;But when he saw the wonder of the hilt,How curiously and strangely chased, he smoteHis palms together, and he cried aloud,"And if indeed I cast the brand away,Surely a precious thing, one worthy note,Should thus be lost for ever from the earth”

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Tennyson’s version highlights Sir Bedivere’s second attempt to get rid of the sword.
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Tennyson’s version conveys Sir Bedivere’s desire to please the king regardless of his feelings.
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Tennyson’s version highlights how Sir Bedivere thought that the sword was a burden.
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Tennyson’s version conveys Sir Bedivere’s extreme reluctance to get rid of the sword.
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Which statements describe the Middle Ages? Select four options.

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The Christian Church was a powerful institution.
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A feudal system of government ruled the land.
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Land disputes were usually settled through peaceful debate.
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Men of nobility, such as dukes and barons, controlled areas of land.
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Knights helped nobles protect their land and their subjects.
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A chronological text structure presents events

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from least important to most important.
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in a random, unorganized way.
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in the order in which they occur.
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from most important to least important.
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Which details give explicit examples of starvation during Elizabethan times? Select 5 options.

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A miller’s daughter dies in her bed, weakened from lack of food.
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A beggar boy from the Scottish Borders is found writhing in agony in the road and dies soon afterward “in great misery.”
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Another “poor, hunger-starved beggar boy” is found in the street and carried into a house, where he dies.
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A four-year-old local boy dies “for want of food and means,” as does his mother.
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You hear the story of a man leaving his home and walking hundreds of miles in search of work or food and returning after a couple of months with sufficient money only to find that his wife and children have all since died.
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Now you can see why so many people living in Kent in the 1590s walked there, as we have seen in Chapter Two.

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