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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.So much grain is produced in 1592 that Francis Bacon proudly declares that England can now afford to feed other nations as well as her own people. It is an unfortunate remark, for it is very soon followed by a great dearth. The harvest of 1594 is poor, that of 1595 is worse, and the following year worse still: wheat hits 170 percent of its normal price, oats reach a level of 191 percent, and rye has to be imported from Denmark. Other bad years—when the price of grain is 20 percent or more above the rolling average—are 1573, 1586, and 1600. The year 1590 is almost as bad, made worse by the high cost of livestock. Prices for animal products hit new heights and never really diminish.

A
. . . Francis Bacon proudly declares that England can now afford to feed other nations as well as her own people.
B
Other bad years—when the price of grain is 20 percent or more above the rolling average—are 1573, 1586, and 1600.
C
The year 1590 is almost as bad, made worse by the high cost of livestock.
D
Prices for animal products hit new heights and never really diminish.
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Which of these excerpts from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England is related from the second-person point of view?

A
Hills might feature in an Elizabethan writer’s description of a county because of their potential for sheep grazing . . .
B
Those things that Elizabethans take for granted are precisely what you will find most striking . . .
C
Before this, they do not need such a word, for they do not see a “landscape” as such . . .
D
Shakespeare does not use the word “landscape” at all; he uses the word “country” . . .
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When providing an objective summary of a text, writers should

A
directly quote the text.
B
avoid central ideas.
C
include their opinions.
D
exclude personal opinions.
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What does a chronological text structure use to signal the sequence of time?

A
causes and effects
B
reactions to events
C
words or dates
D
responses to events
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leaderwomanjudgespeaker

A
leader
B
woman
C
judge
D
speaker
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Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.These [the miracle plays] go out of favor when the privy council decrees that they are too close to Catholicism and should stop. Those at York cease in 1569. In Chester the citizens defy the privy council and continue performing their play about Noah’s Flood well into the 1570s. The Coventry mystery plays are finally suppressed in 1579, so this is the town to visit if you want to catch one later in the reign. The Guary miracle play in Cornwall continues for some years but is so amateurish it can hardly be seen as a threat.

A
The plays being performed in York ceased.
B
The council declared that the miracle plays should stop.
C
The Coventry mystery plays were finally suppressed.
D
The Guary miracle play in Cornwall ended.
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Read the excerpt from Queen Elizabeth's Response to Parliament's Request That She Marry.The realm shall not remain destitute of any heir that may be a fit governour, and peradventure more beneficial to the realm, than such offspring as may come of me: For though I be never so careful of your well-doing, and mind ever so to be, yet may my issue grow out of kind, and become perhaps ungracious.

A
to persuade Parliament that the method of choosing successors to the throne based simply on birthright needs to be revised
B
to persuade Parliament that her child should not be considered a possible choice for successor to the English throne
C
to persuade Parliament that simply because she has a child does not guarantee that the child will be a competent ruler
D
to persuade Parliament how catastrophic it could be if they acted ungraciously toward her or her child
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Read the excerpt from Queen Elizabeth's Response to Parliament's Request That She Marry.The realm shall not remain destitute of any heir that may be a fit governour, and peradventure more beneficial to the realm, than such offspring as may come of me: For though I be never so careful of your well-doing, and mind ever so to be, yet may my issue grow out of kind, and become perhaps ungracious.

A
She relies on logos by listing for Parliament some of her personal reasons for wanting to remain unmarried and childless.
B
She relies on pathos by attempting to make the members of Parliament feel sorry for her and the fact that she is unmarried and childless.
C
She relies on logos by providing reasons why Parliament should not worry about the fact that she is unmarried and childless.
D
She relies on pathos by making the members of Parliament feel foolish for worrying about the fact that she is unmarried and childless.
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Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.Elizabethan people suffer from some afflictions that no longer exist in modern England. Plague is the obvious example but it is by no means the only one. Sweating sickness kills tens of thousands of people on its first appearance in 1485 and periodically thereafter. It is a terrifying disease because sufferers die within hours. It doesn’t return after a particularly bad outbreak in 1556 but people do not know whether it has gone for good; they still fear it, and it continues to be part of the medical landscape for many years.

A
It lists diseases found only in modern England.
B
It describes the plague in great detail.
C
It gives a description of the English landscape.
D
It provides the example of sweating sickness.
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Read the excerpt The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England from by Ian Mortimer.Elizabethans do not understand infection and contagion as we do. It is not that they are completely ignorant as to how illnesses spread—physicians believe they know perfectly well—it is rather that their understanding is very different from ours. The principal ideas underpinning most Elizabethan medical thinking come from Galen, who lived in the second century A.D. Physicians will cite him as an unquestionable authority when they explain to you that your health depends on a balance of the four humors: yellow bile or choler, black bile, phlegm, and blood. If there is too much choler in your body, you will grow choleric; too much blood and you will be sanguine; too much phlegm and you will be phlegmatic; and too much black bile makes you melancholic. It is from these imbalances that sickness arises.

A
“Elizabethans do not understand infection and contagion as we do.”
B
“It is not that they are completely ignorant as to how illnesses spread—physicians believe they know perfectly well—it is rather that their understanding is very different from ours.”
C
“The principal ideas underpinning most Elizabethan medical thinking come from Galen, who lived in the second century A.D.”
D
“If there is too much choler in your body, you will grow choleric; too much blood and you will be sanguine; too much phlegm and you will be phlegmatic; and too much black bile makes you melancholic.”
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Organization, tone, and word choice should be considered when evaluating effective

A
definitions and key terms.
B
grammar and punctuation.
C
transitions and introductions.
D
text structure and style.
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Read the excerpts from Queen Elizabeth's speeches.In the excerpts from Address to the Troops at Tilbury and Response to Parliament's Request That She Marry, which best describes the types of rhetorical appeals used by Queen Elizabeth when addressing her audience?

Question illustration
A
She used an appeal to logos when addressing both the troops and members of Parliament.
B
She used an appeal to logos when addressing the troops and an appeal to pathos when addressing Parliament.
C
She used an appeal to pathos when addressing the troops and ethos when addressing members of Parliament.
D
She used an appeal to pathos when addressing the troops and an appeal to logos when addressing Parliament.
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Read the excerpt from Queen Elizabeth's Address to the Troops at Tilbury.Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself, that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects, and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die among you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdoms, and for my people, my honour, and my blood, even in the dust.

A
She relies on ethos by explaining that she has previous experience fighting in battles.
B
She relies on pathos by providing examples of other successes she has had as a ruler.
C
She relies on ethos by establishing that she is there for more than just recreation.
D
She relies on pathos by using emotionally charged words to motivate the troops.
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Read the passage.If you ever visit Denver, Colorado, you should allow yourself several hours to peruse the Denver Art Museum’s Asian art collection. This world-renowned collection houses an impressive array of artwork, including woodblock prints, tea ceremony articles, bamboo sculptures, and much more. One piece of particular interest is a 17th-century ink-on-silk drawing of Daruma, a South Indian monk. Visitors can also view Japanese ceramics and paintings by women artists from the 17th–19th centuries—the largest such collection outside of Japan. The Denver Art Museum is one of the larger US art museums, with its global collections containing more than 70,000 works of art from around the world.

A
“This world-renowned collection houses an impressive array of artwork, including woodblock prints, tea ceremony articles, bamboo sculptures, and much more.”
B
“One piece of particular interest is a 17th-century ink-on-silk drawing of Daruma, a South Indian monk.”
C
“Visitors can also view Japanese ceramics and paintings by women artists from the 17th–19th centuries—the largest such collection outside of Japan.”
D
“The Denver Art Museum is one of the larger US art museums, with its global collections containing more than 70,000 works of art from around the world.”
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Which sentence is an example of an objective summary?

A
Elizabethans had some interesting ideas about disease.
B
Malaria was common in marshy areas where mosquitoes bred.
C
Studying humors seems like a ridiculous medical practice.
D
Obviously, English citizens should have left the swampy regions.
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Readers must consider ________ to determine the central idea in an informational text.

A
the author and setting
B
historical facts and people
C
the topic and supporting details
D
symbolism and language
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Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England.Describing a landscape is thus a matter of perspective: your priorities affect what you see. Asked to describe their county, most Devonians will mention the great city of Exeter, the ports of Dartmouth, Plymouth, and Barnstaple, and the dozens of market towns. They will generally neglect to mention that the region is dominated by a great moor, Dartmoor, two thousand feet high in places and over two hundred square miles in expanse. There are no roads across this wasteland, only track ways. Elizabethans see it as good for nothing but pasture, tin mining, and the steady water supply it provides by way of the rivers that rise there.

A
Describing a landscape is thus a matter of perspective: your priorities affect what you see.
B
Asked to describe their county, most Devonians will mention the great city of Exeter . . .
C
There are no roads across this wasteland, only track ways.
D
Elizabethans see it as good for nothing but pasture, tin mining, and the steady water supply it provides . . .
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Which excerpts from Queen Elizabeth's Address to the Troops at Tilbury rely on a rhetorical appeal to ethos to persuade soldiers that she is a capable commander? Select two options.

A
I do not desire to live to distrust.
B
I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman.
C
I have the heart and stomach of a king.
D
I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder.
E
I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time.
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Which sentence is an example of an objective summary?

A
Mortimer is a witty writer who adds humor to history.
B
It must have been horrible to live in Elizabethan times.
C
Quality health care today is wonderful, but overpriced.
D
Modern medicine has changed dramatically since the 1500s.
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Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer.How do these humors get out of balance? This is where the overlapping ideas of Elizabethan medicine might leave you a little confused. By far the most important cause is divine intervention. People believe that illnesses may be sent to punish them for a sin—or simply because God wants them to die and go to Heaven. Some hold that God, by sending them an illness, is giving them a chance to atone for some previous transgression through suffering, and so they are thankful for their affliction. Other causes of illness are old age, excitement, or contagion through close proximity to other ill people and decaying matter. Filthy areas such as stagnant pools and dead bodies create a miasma around them, and if the air or water of a miasma enters the body, it disrupts the humors.

A
“How do these humors get out of balance?”
B
“This is where the overlapping ideas of Elizabethan medicine might leave you a little confused.”
C
“By far the most important cause is divine intervention.”
D
“People believe that illnesses may be sent to punish them for a sin—or simply because God wants them to die and go to Heaven.”

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