Unit Test Answers

Which quotations from Enrique's Journey provide evidence supporting Hafiza's point that this text is a biography? Select two options.

Read the sentences.Focused on helping his neighbors, Mark began rebuilding after the storm. He organized a team of volunteers after a local hardware store began delivering donated supplies. To watch the town come back to life was incredible.

Read this paragraph from Yves's analysis of Enrique's Journey.(1) Nazario draws on Enrique's experience to illustrate what children face in their attempt to escape difficult conditions. (2) She describes the dangers he faces on his journey northward. (3) The threat of extortion and violence from gangsters illustrates how vulnerable such children are. (4) But gangsters do not pose the only threat. (5) Even the police, whose job is to uphold and enforce the law, steal from the migrants. (6) What I find most unsettling, though, is Enrique's temporary alliance with an MS gangster.

Read the sentence.The students found the grammatical rules incredibly simple to understand and use.Which word does the underlined phrase modify?

What would best conclude an essay comparing different genres?

Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo and study the map.The city stands at the mouth or entrance of the gulf of Kalhat, so that no ship can enter or leave the gulf except by leave of its rulers. The malik of this city thus has a powerful hold over the sultan of Kerman, to whom he is subject. For sometimes the sultan imposes some due on the malik of Hormuz or one of his brethren, and they refuse to pay it, and the sultan sends an army to enforce payment.

Which quotations from chapter 7 of Night convey an atmosphere of panic? Select two options.“Here or elsewhere, what did it matter?”“Suddenly, the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight.”“Then, two ‘gravediggers’ grabbed him by the head and feet and threw him from the wagon, like a sack of flour.”“Father! Father! Wake up. They’re going to throw you outside.”“And I started to hit him harder and harder.”

Which citation is correctly punctuated in MLA style?

Hiroshi is planning to write an essay comparing news reports and editorials.Which ideas should he brainstorm about in order to write an effective essay? Select four options.the characteristics of editorials the characteristics of news reports which genres are similar to editorials which genres are similar to news reports how news reports and editorials are similar how news reports and editorials are different

The following sentence has a misplaced modifier.Players must maintain good grades, meet all physical-fitness requirements, and attend regularly practices to play on the varsity team.Which revision corrects the error in this sentence?

Read the excerpt from chapter 7 of Night.Pressed tightly against one another, in an effort to resist the cold, our heads empty and heavy, our brains a whirlwind of decaying memories. Our minds numb with indifference.

What are the primary purposes of a thesis statement in an essay comparing different genres? Select two options.to engage the reader's interestto establish the essay's main ideato introduce the subtopics of the essayto state the writer's opinion of the genresto introduce the evidence that will be used

Read the sentence from Skylar’s comparative essay, and decide how they can edit informal, subjective language. The narrative becomes scarier when Enrique can no longer keep his eyes open.

Which underlined phrase is a prepositional phrase?

Which details are important to notice when comparing and contrasting two texts from different genres? Select three options.the characters’ clothingthe point of viewthe author’s namethe language use the author’s purpose

Which sentences from the texts best provide evidence to support this idea? Select three options.

In this passage, the author suggests that cruelty can occur when people face horrible conditions. Which evidence best supports this viewpoint? Select two options.

Read the thesis statements.(1)The editorial "Adoption Is the Only Choice” and the news article "Animal Shelters Overpopulated” both discuss the same topic, but they serve different purposes.(2)Federalists believed that a strong central government would ensure popular sovereignty and individuals' rights.(3)Despite the obstacles facing African Americans in the early 1900s, Paul R. Williams became a prominent Los Angeles architect and community leader.(4)Australia's geological age can be seen in several surface features, including the age of surface rocks, the erosion of surface features, and the impoverishment of the soil.

Read the sentence from Nikita's analysis of "The Children of the Drug Wars."Nazario feels that refugee kids totally shouldn't be sent back to the same dangerous things they've left.

Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."He also asked Congress to grant powers that could eliminate legal protections for children from Central America in order to expedite removals, a change that Republicans in Congress have also advocated.This would allow life-or-death decisions to be made within hours by Homeland Security officials, even though studies have shown that border patrol agents fail to adequately screen Mexican children to see if they are being sexually exploited by traffickers or fear persecution, as the agents are supposed to do. Why would they start asking Central American children key questions needed to prove refugee status?

Read the excerpt from chapter 2 of Night.And so an hour or two passed. Another scream jolted us. The woman had broken free of her bonds and was shouting louder than before:"Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere . . .”Once again, the young men bound and gagged her. When they actually struck her, people shouted their approval:"Keep her quiet! Make that madwoman shut up. She’s not the only one here . . .”She received several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal. Her son was clinging desperately to her, not uttering a word. He was no longer crying.

Which statement is true about how to organize an informational essay comparing two genres?

Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo.This province produces great quantities of excellent white incense, and also dates in great abundance. No grain is grown here except rice, and not much of that; but it is imported from abroad at a big profit. Fish is plentiful, notably tunnies of large size, which are so abundant that two of them can be bought for a Venetian groat. The staple diet consists of rice, meat, and fish. . . . As for the incense of which I have spoken, which grows here in such profusion, the lord buys it for 10 gold bezants a cantar and then sells it to foreign merchants and others for 40 bezants a cantar. The lord of Shihr does this on behalf of the sultan of the province of Aden. For the sultan of Aden has incense bought up throughout his dominions at the price of 10 bezants and afterwards sold at 40 from which he derives an immense profit.

Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo.Here again good incense grows in profusion—I will tell you how. It is produced by trees of no great size, like little fir trees. They are gashed with knives in various places, and out of these gashes oozes the incense. Some of it even oozes from the tree itself without any gashing, in consequence of the great heat that prevails.

Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo.They have sheep here that have no ears, nor even ear-holes; but in the place where ears ought to be they have little horns. They are small creatures and very pretty. And here is something else that may strike you as marvelous: their domestic animals—sheep, oxen, camels, and little ponies—are fed on fish. They are reduced to this diet because in all this country and in all the surrounding regions there is no grass; but it is the driest place in the world. The fish on which these animals feed are very small and are caught in March, April, and May in quantities that are truly amazing. They are then dried and stored in the houses and given to the animals as food throughout the year. I can tell you further that the animals also eat them alive, as soon as they are drawn out of the water.