Unit Test

Question 1

When a writer does not know who performed the action in a sentence, the writer can still write a grammatically correct sentence by

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u: using the passive voice.

Question 2

Which list represents the steps for analyzing visual art?

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v: view, focus, observe, conclude

Question 3

looks at an objectresearches an objectperceives a topicprovides evidence for a topic

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C: perceives a topic

Question 4

Consider the paragraph and image.When I turned fifteen, my uncle bought me a model rocket. I was skeptical at first, thinking it was a toy for a kid. But my uncle explained that it contained everything needed for a real launch, from an engine to a parachute.

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B: by identifying the parts of the rocket

Question 5

In "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," Williams describes the scene in a painting. How does Auden treat the same subject in "Musée des Beaux Arts"?

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D: Auden offers multiple examples of people ignoring momentous events.

Question 6

grammaticalawkwardformalclear

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D: clear

Question 7

Read the excerpt from "Ship's Chronometer from HMS Beagle” and consider the accompanying image.If you wanted to sail, it was impossible to keep a precise record of time. And at sea, if you can’t tell the time, you don’t know how far east or west you are. It is relatively easy to calculate latitude – your distance north or south of the equator – by measuring the height of the Sun above the horizon at noon; but this won’t let you calculate longitude – your position east or west.

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T: The image aids readers’ understanding of key concepts.

Question 8

Read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects.The slit drum began its life in Central Africa, in the region where Sudan and the Congo share a frontier, and it would have been part of the court orchestra of a powerful chief... The flanks of the drum have been carved to different thicknesses, so that a skilled drummer with a traditional drumstick can produce at least two tones and as many as four distinct pitches.

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I: It would make the listener more able to feel the same emotions as the people who had heard the drums in the past.

Question 9

public domaincopyrightedcrediblevirtual

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C: credible

Question 10

Read the excerpt from "Benin Plaque: The Oba with Europeans.”All European visitors were struck by the Oba’s position as both the spiritual and the secular head of the kingdom, and the Benin brass plaques are principally concerned with praising him.

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B: “spiritual”

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