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Question 1

Read the passage from The American Plague.Toward the end of October, Washington heard from Postmaster General Pickering that the fever seemed to be on the wane. A cold spell had swept in and with it a cleansing rain. Burials were falling in number, from a high of 120 on October 11 to half that number on October 21.This good news was followed almost immediately by a contradictory report from Comptroller Wolcott. After several good days in the city, he explained, warm weather reappeared and deaths increased, jumping to 82 on October 22. Wolcott advised the president to delay his return trip several more days.From the central ideas of these two paragraphs, the reader can conclude that

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Washington lacked reliable information despite his sources.

Question 2

Read this excerpt from The American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.No one would ever know precisely how many Philadelphians died of yellow fever in 1793. Many of those who traditionally kept such count—ministers, sextons, and city officials—had either fled the city or been ill themselves. The best estimates put the number of victims at between four and five thousand men, women, and children. What was clear to all was that life would never be the same. The fear had gone too deep, the losses were all too real and personal. Which excerpt from Fever 1793 connects to the historical account detailed in the excerpt?

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"Some doctors warn we may see a thousand dead before it’s over. There are forty-thousand people living in Philadelphia, William. Can you imagine if one in forty were to die?"

Question 3

Pick the sentence that avoids redundancy and wordiness.

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We hoped that the restaurant manager would sponsor our baseball team.

Question 4

The most important idea in a text is the

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central idea.

Question 5

Read the sentence.We forgot to bring lunch on our eight-mile hiking trip, so by evening, we were all __________.

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famished

Question 6

Marla is writing an informative essay about volunteer opportunities in her community. What would be the most relevant example to include in her essay?

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details about the school’s upcoming food drive

Question 7

Read the sentences."Wow!” exclaimed Melida. "Your ballgown dress is so pretty.”

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enchanting

Question 8

Which idea from The American Plague best represents the central idea for the entire story?

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The yellow fever epidemic had serious consequences.

Question 9

To find the central idea, a reader should ask

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what the most important message is.

Question 10

Read this excerpt from The American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.Most doctors had predicted the fever would end when the cold weather returned. Almost all epidemics followed the same pattern, striking during warm weather, disappearing with the first hard frost. Daniel Defoe, in recording the end of the Black Death that visited London in 1665, wrote that "the winter weather came on apace [and] most of those that had fallen sick recovered, and the health of the city began to return." Which excerpt from Fever 1793 connects to the historical account detailed in the excerpt?

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I silently counted on my fingers: twenty-eight days until the end of September, then on into October until the first frost. Frost always killed fever. Mr. Carris said it drained the poison from the air.

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