Unit Test Answers

Read this prompt.Create a multimedia presentation about the risk to farmers using standard farming methods such as pesticides, as compared to organic farming techniques. Use research and evidence to support your opinion. Use persuasive techniques and a variety of visual aids in your presentation.

Which quotations from the texts best support the theme that the way to deal with racism is to stand up to it? Select three options.

Read the excerpt from an editorial.State lawmakers are considering overturning a law that forbids the sale of lottery tickets on Sundays. Proponents of the bill claim that the reason for the potential change is a result of consumer demand. These "state leaders” clearly have no concept of how to maintain family values. Playing the lottery is just as despicable as gambling in a casino and should be outlawed altogether.

Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.RUTH: Why don't you answer the door, man WALTER (suddenly bounding across the floor to embrace her): 'Cause sometimes it hard to let the future begin! (Stooping down in her face.I got wings! You got wings! All God's children got wings!He crosses to the door and throws it open. Standing there is a very slight little man in a not-too-prosperous business suit and with haunted frightened eyes and a hat pulled down tightly, brim up, around his forehead. TRAVIS passes between the men and exits. WALTER leans deep in the man's face, still in his jubilance.When I get to heaven gonna put on my wings, Gonna fly all over God's heaven . . .The little man just stares at him.Heaven—Suddenly he stops and looks past the little man into the empty hallway.Where's Willy, man?BOBO: He ain't with me.

Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.MAMA (to WALTER): Son—(She goes to him, bends down to him, talks to his bent head.) Son . . . Is it gone? Son, I gave you sixty-five hundred dollars. Is it gone? All of it? Beneatha's money too?WALTER (lifting his head slowly): Mama . . . I never . . . went to the bank at all . . .MAMA (not wanting to believe him): You mean . . . your sister's school money . . . you used that too . . . Walter? . . .WALTER: Yessss! All of it . . . It's all gone . . .There is total silence. RUTH stands with her face covered with her hands; BENEATHA leans forlornly against a wall, fingering a piece of red ribbon from the mother's gift. MAMA stops and looks at her son without recognition and then, quite without thinking about it, starts to beat him senselessly in the face.BENEATHA goes to them and stops it.BENEATHA: Mama!MAMA stops and looks at both of her children and rises slowly and wanders vaguely, aimlessly away from them.MAMA: I seen . . . him . . . night after night . . . come in . . . and look at that rug . . . and then look at me . . . the red showing in his eyes . . . the veins moving in his head . . . I seen him grow thin and old before he was forty . . . working and working and working like somebody's old horse . . . killing himself . . . and you—you give it all away in a day— (She raises her arms to strike him again.) BENEATHA: Mama—MAMA: Oh, God . . . (She looks up to Him.) Look down here—and show me the strength.

Angeline is preparing an oral presentation about the need for an alternative to the town landfill. What is the best technique or strategy she can use to motivate and inspire her audience to take action?

Read the sentence.Luz has written several poems about her travels to Mexico.Which verb tense is underlined?

Which image would be the best choice for convincing a middle school audience to clean up litter on a local waterway?

You have been asked to create a multimedia presentation about the dangers of texting and driving. You have chosen the photo below as the final visual aid for your presentation.

Read the excerpt from a news report.A local youth group, collaborating with Splash and Dash Car Wash, raised more than $450 for their annual trip to Washington, DC. These boys and girls, who work as mentors for younger children in our community, set a goal, organized the plan for a car wash, and worked with local businesses to find the perfect partner for their project. Working side by side with Splash and Dash Car Wash employees, the group washed nearly one hundred cars. As a result, they surpassed their fundraising goals and are able to focus on planning their trip. One student said, "This car wash was successful beyond our wildest dreams.”The trip to Washington, DC, is scheduled for May 19. While they visit the nation’s capital, students will tour the monuments, explore the Smithsonian museums, and meet with other youth groups from around the country. They are scheduled to leave early in the morning on May 19. The manager of Splash and Dash said that he and his staff will be there to see the students off on their trip. "These kids are our future leaders. It is wonderful to see their hard work rewarded,” he said.

Read the sentence.Will you pick up the dog's toys in the yard, please?What is the mood of this sentence?

Read the excerpts from two articles written about the same topic.Article 1Taxpayers will fund most of the new arena, at a cost of $300 million. We will all be asked to share the burden of a facility that may well be replaced in 10 years, when the powers that be decide that we need yet another upgrade.Article 2The construction of the arena will cost the city $300 million. Taxpayers will assume 90 percent of the cost. Several protesters showed up at city hall Tuesday to express their disapproval of the decision. They were forcibly removed by police after two hours.

Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.MAMA: Lord have mercy, baby. You done gone and bought your grandmother a hat?TRAVIS (very proud): Open it!She does and lifts out an elaborate, but very elaborate, wide gardening hat, and all the adults break up at the sight of it.RUTH: Travis, honey, what is that?TRAVIS (who thinks it is beautiful and appropriate): It's a gardening hat! Like the ladies always have on in the magazines when they work in their gardens.BENEATHA (giggling fiercely): Travis—we were trying to make Mama Mrs. Miniver—not Scarlett O'Hara!MAMA (indignantly): What's the matter with you all! This here is a beautiful hat! (Absurdly.) I always wanted me one just like it!She pops it on her head to prove it to her grandson, and the hat is ludicrous and considerably oversized.RUTH: Hot dog! Go, Mama!WALTER (doubled over with laughter): I'm sorry, Mama—but you look like you ready to go out and chop you some cotton sure enough!They all laugh except Mama, out of deference to Travis’s feelings.MAMA (gathering the boy up to her): Bless your heart—this is the prettiest hat I ever owned—

Read the sentence.Keisha will run in the spring 5K race, so she had started a training program next Monday.Which correction of the underlined verb phrase fixes the inappropriate shift in tense in this sentence?

Which sentence is the best use of passive voice?