Unit Test

Question 1

Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?”Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

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B: essay.

Question 2

Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?”The thirty-two chapters of a novel—if we consider how to read a novel first—are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more impalpable than bricks; reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing.

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C: inform.

Question 3

Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?”Then turn from your blurred and littered pages to the opening pages of some great novelist—Defoe, Jane Austen, Hardy. Now you will be better able to appreciate their mastery.

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D: The author might include dialogue for the roles of Defoe, Austen, and Hardy.

Question 4

Which lines from the poem "Digging” use assonance? Check all that apply.The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:Bends low, comes up twenty years awayBy God, the old man could handle a spade.Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods

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A: The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.; C: Bends low, comes up twenty years away; D: By God, the old man could handle a spade.; E: Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods

Question 5

Read the excerpt from "Digging."The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slapOf soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edgeThrough living roots awaken in my head.But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.

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D: hard work

Question 6

Read the paragraph.North Run High School hosts a wide variety of clubs. Some clubs are academic, such as the debate club, foreign-language clubs, and the chess team. Other clubs are service-oriented, such as the Key Club. The most popular club at North Run is the Future Business Leaders of America, which boasts 165 members.

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C: to inform readers about North Run’s club offerings

Question 7

Based on the author’s allusions in Midsummer to "the child’s fairy tale,” "fairy rings,” and "thatched cottages fenced with dog roses,” readers can tell that the speaker

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D: feels that an idealized version of England does not exist.

Question 8

Which line best helps readers identify a countryside setting?

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C: Inside Bag End, Bilbo and Gandalf were sitting at the open window of a small room looking out west on to the garden.

Question 9

Based on the passage, what are the best ways to describe Tom Sawyer’s character? Select 3 options.

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61892,61893,61894

Question 10

contextdialectsettingtheme

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D: theme

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