Writing a Literary Analysis through the Lens of a Quotation — Unit test

Question 1

Which statements about the controlling idea of a text are true? Select 4 options.It includes the topic of the text.It includes quotes from experts.It includes the author’s viewpoint.It is usually stated in the text’s introduction.It is the underlying message of the text.It is comparable to the theme (for a work of fiction).

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It includes the topic of the text.; It includes the author’s viewpoint.; It is the underlying message of the text.; It is comparable to the theme (for a work of fiction).

Question 2

Which sentence contains a nonrestrictive clause that is punctuated correctly?

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My boss, who was recently promoted again, is great at motivating her employees.

Question 3

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

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My sister, who is a waitress at Billy’s Big Burger Shack, is sixteen years old.

Question 4

Read the excerpt from The Dark Game.The Russian admiralty decided that their British allies could make better use of the codebook than they could, so it was sent to London. The codebook was a bonanza for the British code breakers. Not only did it contain the columns of code "words"—groups of randomly selected numbers—on which the messages were based, but it also included a changeable key to the cipher systems used to obscure the coded messages.

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The Russian admiralty decided that their British allies could make better use of the codebook than they could, so it was sent to London.

Question 5

Read the sentence.Theodore Roosevelt the twenty-sixth president of the United States was the youngest president to ever hold office.

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Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States, was the youngest president to ever hold office.

Question 6

Read the passage from "Annabel Lee.”And this was the reason that, long ago,In this kingdom by the sea,A wind blew out of a cloud, chillingMy beautiful Annabel Lee;So that her highborn kinsmen cameAnd bore her away from me,To shut her up in a sepulchreIn this kingdom by the sea.

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loneliness.

Question 7

Read the line from "Annabel Lee.”Of the beautiful Annabel Lee

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love for Annabel Lee.

Question 8

Which excerpt from Annabel Lee provides the best evidence to support the conclusion that Annabel Lee was loyal?

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And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.

Question 9

Which excerpt from "The Enigma Machine” supports the idea that Allied forces expected the Germans to complicate their coding system?

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After 1938, when the Germans introduced additional rotors and plugs to increase the number of possible combinations, Polish and British cryptologists had already developed alternative methods of recovering the daily keys.

Question 10

Read the excerpt from "The Enigma Machine.”At Bletchley Park, the main site in Britain where Enigma codes were deciphered, six thousand messages were decoded every day by a staff of ten thousand men and women. Many of the messages were inconsequential, but more than a few were critical to the outcome of the war.

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At Bletchley Park, the ten thousand people on the staff figured out over six thousand codes, some of which were very important to the war effort.

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