Unit Test

Question 1

Which phrases or sentences best build the ideas about why women often choose to remain unknown? Select two options.

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A: “Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them.”; C: “They . . . will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.”

Question 2

When revising an essay, how can a writer best connect ideas more clearly?

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A: by using transitions to create logical relationships among the claim, reasons, and evidence

Question 3

Read the passage from an argumentative essay.Healthcare costs are becoming an issue for many Americans. In just two years, the average family has seen an increase of 3 percent in insurance costs. The increase rises to 25 percent when you include families who buy insurance on an exchange. At this rate, health care will soon be completely unaffordable for most Americans. Therefore, lowering the cost of health insurance must be a priority for lawmakers.

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C: The argument contains relevant reasons supported with facts and data.

Question 4

Read the passage.(1) Wearing school uniforms has a positive impact on students’ attitudes toward their education. (2) Both recent studies and interviews with school administrators demonstrate that uniforms have a direct impact on school pride. (3) Some researchers have found that uniforms do not improve attendance or academic achievement. (4) Regardless, having a uniform could boost students’ confidence and reduce their stress, two factors that will inevitably make their learning more productive. (5) Eliminating a focus on appearance will help students focus on what truly matters.

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B: sentence 3

Question 5

Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own.Her mind must have been strained and her vitality lowered by the need of opposing this, of disproving that. For here again we come within range of that very interesting and obscure masculine complex which has had so much influence upon the woman's movement; that deep-seated desire, not so much that SHE shall be inferior as that HE shall be superior, which plants him wherever one looks, not only in front of the arts, but barring the way to politics too, even when the risk to himself seems infinitesimal and the suppliant humble and devoted.

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B: The author’s use of irony emphasizes that men’s desire to be superior is not an obscure or particularly interesting fact.

Question 6

Read the passage from A Doll’s House.Helmer: Because such an atmosphere of lies infects and poisons the whole life of a home. Each breath the children take in such a house is full of the germs of evil.Nora: [coming nearer him] Are you sure of that?Helmer: My dear, I have often seen it in the course of my life as a lawyer. Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.Nora: Why do you only say—mother?Helmer: It seems most commonly to be the mother's influence, though naturally a bad father's would have the same result. Every lawyer is familiar with the fact. This Krogstad, now, has been persistently poisoning his own children with lies and dissimulation; that is why I say he has lost all moral character. [Holds out his hands to her.] That is why my sweet little Nora must promise me not to plead his cause. Give me your hand on it. Come, come, what is this? Give me your hand. There now, that's settled. I assure you it would be quite impossible for me to work with him; I literally feel physically ill when I am in the company of such people.

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A: By rebuking deceitful mothers, Helmer demonstrates the belief that women’s primary responsibility was raising children.

Question 7

What do the stage directions in a play tell the reader?

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D: the setting, the characters’ actions, and the characters’ expressions

Question 8

Which sentence includes a nonrestrictive clause?

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C: Camels, which sway from side to side as they walk, are often called ships of the desert.

Question 9

The English poet and playwright William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in the mid-1500s.

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a: appositive; p: phrase; r: restrictive

Question 10

Some of the items on my shopping list _ chanterelle mushrooms, white asparagus, and eel _ were impossible to find.

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d: dashes

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