English as a Multicultural Language — Unit test Answers

Which details support Alvarez’s ideas about the situation in her home country? Select two options.

Read the excerpt from "Remembering to Never Forget: Dominican Republic’s ‘Parsley Massacre’” by Mark Memmott.Passage A:This week, people from around the world are expected to gather in the Dominican Republic for a "Border of Lights” commemoration that aims to "honor a tragedy long forgotten, and unknown to many people.”Passage B:Trujillo, as the Border of Lights website explains, fed and nurtured anti-Haitian sentiment and created an atmosphere that still excludes ethnic Haitians from becoming part of "the Dominican melting pot.”The method his soldiers used in 1937 to try to identify those who would be killed was cruelly unique. When confronting someone in the lands along the border with Haiti, they would hold up a sprig of parsley and ask what it was. If the person responded by trilling the "r” in perejil (Spanish for parsley), he would be free to go. Anyone who didn't trill the "r” was thought to be a Haitian Creole speaker—and was likely to be killed.

Which techniques does President Reagan use in this excerpt? Select four options.

Which ideas from the excerpt would be most appropriate to include in a summary? Select three options.

Read the excerpt from President Ronald Reagan’s speech on the night before the 1980 presidential election.And many Americans today, just as they did 200 years ago, feel burdened, stifled and sometimes even oppressed by government that has grown too large, too bureaucratic, too wasteful, too unresponsive, too uncaring about people and their problems.

How does an effective argumentative essay address counterclaims?

Which words contain a suffix? Select two options.amplify encodesilverbrilliancefling

Read the definitions.ex– = "out" im– = "in" plicit = "folded"

Which statements best describe an effective claim in an argumentative essay? Select two options.It is precise and clear.It is debatable but cannot be refuted.It is emotional and states an opinion.It states a bias using clear language.It states a fact using precise language.

Read the excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" a speech given by Sojourner Truth, a formerly enslaved person, in 1851.Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Which sentences use wrung correctly? Choose two options.

Compare the dictionary and thesaurus entries for the word compliment. What information about the word compliment can be found in both the dictionary and thesaurus entries?

Read the excerpt from "A Latina Judge's Voice" by Hon. Sonia Sotomayor.Let us not forget that between the appointments of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981 and Justice Ginsburg in 1992, eleven years passed. Similarly, between Justice Kaye's initial appointment as an Associate Judge to the New York Court of Appeals in 1983, and Justice Ciparick’s appointment in 1993, ten years elapsed. Almost nine years later, we are waiting for a third appointment of a woman to both the Supreme Court and the New York Court of Appeals and of a second minority, male or female, preferably Hispanic, to the Supreme Court. In 1992 when I joined the bench, there were still two out of 13 circuit courts and about 53 out of 92 district courts in which no women sat. At the beginning of September of 2001, there are women sitting in all 13 circuit courts. The First, Fifth, Eighth and Federal Circuits each have only one female judge, however, out of a combined total number of 48 judges. There are still nearly 37 district courts with no women judges at all. For women of color the statistics are more sobering. As of September 20, 1998, of the then 195 circuit court judges, only two were African-American women and two Hispanic women. Of the 641 district court judges, only twelve were African-American women and eleven Hispanic women. African-American women comprise only 1.56% of the federal judiciary and Hispanic-American women comprise only 1%. No African-American, male or female, sits today on the Fourth or Federal circuits. And no Hispanics, male or female, sit on the Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, District of Columbia or Federal Circuits.Sort of shocking, isn't it? This is the year 2002. We have a long way to go. Unfortunately, there are some very deep storm warnings we must keep in mind. In at least the last five years the majority of nominated judges the Senate delayed more than one year before confirming or never confirming were women or minorities. I need not remind this audience that Judge Paez of your home Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, has had the dubious distinction of having had his confirmation delayed the longest in Senate history. These figures demonstrate that there is a real and continuing need for Latino and Latina organizations and community groups throughout the country to exist and to continue their efforts of promoting women and men of all colors in their pursuit for equality in the judicial system.

Read the paragraph.Spring arrives suddenly. Buds appear on the rosebushes. Shoots are sprouting from the ground. The fruit trees are in flower. Wherever you look, new plant life is basking in the warm spring sun.How does the underlined sentence add variety and meaning to the writing? Select three options.by changing the topicby addressing the readerby introducing a new ideaby combining ideas in a complex sentenceby combining ideas in compound sentence

If the word rudiment is defined as a fundamental principle or skill, and the suffix -ary is defined as "of or relating to,” what does the term rudimentary education mean?

Which words from the passage have negative connotations that support the author's point? Select three options.

Which examples are compound sentences? Select three options.Maria and Ara are going on an exchange program to China and Japan next summer to study Asian culture.The French drink strong black coffee mixed with hot milk; the Italians drink small cups of espresso.According to my Spanish teacher, Basques have a unique culture, and their language is unrelated to any other world language.My aunt and uncle love to travel in their camper, and they can stop wherever they want to.In history class, we’re studying the causes of the Great Depression, which affected the economy of almost every country in the world.

Read the sentence.The tracking party followed their prey to the river, but there they lost the trail, even though they had several bloodhounds with them.What type of sentence is this?

Read the meanings of the word bolt, then read the sentence.Definition 1. n., a screw for fastening Definition 2. n., a strike of lightning Definition 3. n., a bar that slides to lock something Definition 4. n., a roll of fabric or wallpaper

Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice” by Julia Alvarez.On May 30, 1961, nine months after our escape from our homeland, the group of plotters with whom my father had been associated assassinated the dictator. Actually, Dominicans do not refer to the death as an assassination but as an ajusticiamiento, a bringing to justice. Finally, after thirty-one years, Trujillo was brought to justice, found guilty, and executed.But the execution was an external event, not necessarily an internal exorcism. All their lives my parents, along with a nation of Dominicans, had learned the habits of repression, censorship, terror. Those habits would not disappear with a few bullets and a national liberation proclamation. They would not disappear on a plane ride north that put hundreds of miles distance between the Island and our apartment in New York.