Unit Test Answers

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.

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.

Identify the transitional word/s or phrase/s in the following sentence/s. Identify the type of transition.Behind [these three entrances] was a chamber, which might be opened to the spectator’s view. Thus the actions or spectacles which belonged to the interior of the house were sometimes openly exhibited. For example, in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus, Clytemnestra was seen standing over the body of her murdered husband; and in the Acharnians of Aristophanes, Euripides was discovered in his study.

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.

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?

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

Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.Nora: How should you understand it? A wonderful thing is going to happen!Mrs. Linde: A wonderful thing?Nora: Yes, a wonderful thing! But it is so terrible, Christine; it mustn't happen, not for all the world.Mrs. Linde: I will go at once and see Krogstad.Nora: Don't go to him; he will do you some harm.Mrs. Linde: There was a time when he would gladly do anything for my sake.Nora: He?Mrs. Linde: Where does he live?

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

Identify the transitional word/s or phrase/s in the following sentence/s. Identify the type of transition.In the best case, a few governments --in particular, European ones-- can argue that their countries have managed to reverse the process and that they have more "forests" than before. However this hides two fundamentally important facts. On the one hand, that the extension of their "forested area" refers in fact to monoculture tree plantations that have little to do with their original forests. On the other hand, it hides an even more important fact: that conservation of its forests has been achieved at the expense of the forests of other countries, in particular those of the South.

Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.Rank: The bigger a thing it is the better. I can't conceive what it is you mean. Do tell me. Haven't I your confidence?Nora: More than anyone else. I know you are my truest and best friend, and so I will tell you what it is. Well, Doctor Rank, it is something you must help me to prevent. You know how devotedly, how inexpressibly deeply Torvald loves me; he would never for a moment hesitate to give his life for me.Rank: [leaning towards her] Nora—do you think he is the only one—?Nora: [with a slight start] The only one—?Rank: The only one who would gladly give his life for your sake.Nora: [sadly] Is that it?Rank: I was determined you should know it before I went away, and there will never be a better opportunity than this. Now you know it, Nora. And now you know, too, that you can trust me as you would trust no one else.Nora: [rises, deliberately and quietly] Let me pass.

Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.Rank: [leaning towards her] Nora—do you think he is the only one—?Nora: [with a slight start] The only one—?Rank: The only one who would gladly give his life for your sake.Nora: [sadly] Is that it?Rank: I was determined you should know it before I went away, and there will never be a better opportunity than this. Now you know it, Nora. And now you know, too, that you can trust me as you would trust no one else.Nora: [rises, deliberately and quietly] Let me pass.Rank: [makes room for her to pass him, but sits still] Nora!Nora: [at the hall door] Helen, bring in the lamp. [Goes over to the stove.] Dear Doctor Rank, that was really horrid of you.Rank: To have loved you as much as anyone else does? Was that horrid?Nora: No, but to go and tell me so. There was really no need—Rank: What do you mean? Did you know—? [MAID enters with lamp, puts it down on the table, and goes out.] Nora—Mrs. Helmer—tell me, had you any idea of this?Nora: Oh, how do I know whether I had or whether I hadn't? I really can't tell you—To think you could be so clumsy, Doctor Rank! We were getting on so nicely.Rank: Well, at all events you know now that you can command me, body and soul. So won't you speak out?Nora: [looking at him] After what happened?Rank: I beg you to let me know what it is.Nora: I can't tell you anything now.Rank: Yes, yes. You mustn't punish me in that way. Let me have permission to do for you whatever a man may do.Nora: You can do nothing for me now. Besides, I really don't need any help at all. You will find that the whole thing is merely fancy on my part. It really is so—of course it is! [Sits down in the rocking-chair, and looks at him with a smile.] You are a nice sort of man, Doctor Rank! Don't you feel ashamed of yourself, now the lamp has come?

Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.Nora: [glancing at the card] Oh! [Puts it in her pocket.]Rank: Is there anything wrong?Nora: No, no, not in the least. It is only something—it is my new dress—Rank: What? Your dress is lying there.Nora: Oh, yes, that one; but this is another. I ordered it. Torvald mustn't know about it—Rank: Oho! Then that was the great secret.Nora: Of course. Just go in to him; he is sitting in the inner room. Keep him as long as—Rank: Make your mind easy; I won't let him escape.

Identify the transitional word/s or phrase/s in the following sentence/s. Identify the type of transition.Although solar and terrestrial magnetic fields behave differently, they do have something in common: their shape. During solar minimum the Sun's field, like Earth's, resembles that of an iron bar magnet, with great closed loops near the equator and open field lines near the poles. Scientists call such a field a "dipole." The Sun's dipolar field is about as strong as a refrigerator magnet, or 50 gauss (a unit of magnetic intensity). Earth's magnetic field is 100 times weaker.

Identify the transitional word/s or phrase/s in the following sentence/s. Identify the type of transition.In later years, the association grew and became more persistent, demanding answers from the government as to where their missing children were. After the military gave up its authority to a civilian government in 1983, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo have pressed the new government to help find answers to the kidnappings that took place in the Dirty War years.