11th Grade 2nd Quarter Comprehensive Test · 11th Grade 2nd Quarter Comprehensive Test 1 Directions: Read this passage. Then answer the questions that follow. The Open Window . By

11th Grade 2nd Quarter Comprehensive Test

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Directions: Read this passage. Then answer the questions that follow.

The Open Window

By Saki (H. H. Munro) (1870-1916)

“My aunt will be down

presently, Mr. Nuttel,” said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen. “In the meantime you must try and put up with me.”

Framton Nuttel tried to say the

correct something as he waited for the aunt, Mrs. Sappleton. Privately he doubted more than ever whether these formal visits to a succession of total strangers would do much toward helping the nerve cure that he was supposed to be undergoing.

“I know how it will be,” his

sister had said as he prepared for his visit to the town. “You will go there but not speak to a living soul, and your nerves will be worse than ever from moping. I shall just give you letters of introduction to all the people I know there.”

“Do you know many of the

people round here?” asked the niece, when she judged that they had had sufficient silent communion.

“Hardly a soul,” said Framton. “My sister stayed in town four

years ago, and she gave me letters of introduction to your aunt and others.”

“Then you know practically

nothing about my aunt?” pursued the self-possessed young lady.

“Only her name and address,” admitted the caller.

“You may wonder why my

aunt keeps that window wide open on a late October afternoon,” said the niece, indicating a large French window that opened onto a lawn. “Out through that window, three years ago to the day, her husband and her two young brothers went off for their day’s shooting. They never came back. In crossing the moor, they were engulfed in a treacherous piece of bog. Their bodies were never recovered. That was the dreadful part of it.” Here the child’s voice lost its self-possessed note and became falteringly human.

“Poor aunt always thinks that

they will come back someday, they and the little spaniel that was lost


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with them, and walk in at that window just as they used to do. That is why the window is kept open every evening till it is quite dusk. Poor dear aunt, she has often told me how they went out, her husband with his coat over his arm and Ronnie, her youngest brother, singing as he always did to tease her. Do you know, sometimes on still, quiet evenings like this, I almost get a creepy feeling that they will walk in through that window–“

She broke off with a little

shudder. It was a relief to Framton when the aunt bustled into the room with apologies for being late.

“I hope Vera has been amusing

you?” she said. “She has been very

interesting,” said Framton. “I hope you don’t mind the

open window,” said Mrs. Sappleton briskly. “My husband and brothers will be home directly from shooting, and they always come in this way. They’ve been out in the marshes today.”

She rattled on cheerfully. To

Framton it was all purely horrible. He made a desperate but only partially successful effort to turn the talk on to a less ghastly topic.

It was certainly an unfortunate coincidence that he should have paid his visit on this tragic anniversary.

“The doctors agree in ordering

me complete rest and an absence of mental excitement,” announced Framton, who labored under the tolerably widespread delusion that total strangers and chance acquaintances are hungry for the least detail of one’s ailments and infirmities.

“Oh?” said Mrs. Sappleton, in

a voice that only replaced a yawn at the last moment. Then she suddenly brightened into alert attention–but not to what Framton was saying.

“Here they are at last!” she

cried. “Just in time for tea, and don’t they look as if they were muddy up to the eyes!”

Framton shivered and turned

toward the niece with a look intended to convey sympathetic comprehension. The child was staring out through the open window with a dazed horror in her eyes. In a chill shock of nameless fear Framton swung round in his seat and looked in the same direction.

In the deepening twilight three figures were walking across the lawn toward the window. They all


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carried guns under their arms, and one of them had a coat hung over his shoulders. A tired spaniel kept close at their heels. Noiselessly they neared the house, and then a hoarse young voice started singing.

Framton grabbed wildly at his

stick and hat. The hall door, the gravel drive, and the front gate were dimly noted stages in this headlong retreat. A cyclist coming along the road had to run into the hedge to avoid imminent collision.

“Here we are, my dear,” said

the bearer of the coat, coming in through the window. “Fairly muddy, but most of it’s dry. Who was that who bolted out as we came up?”

“A most extraordinary man, a

Mr. Nuttel,” said Mrs. Sappleton. “He could only talk about his illnesses, and then dashed off without a word of goodbye or apology when you arrived. One would think he had seen a ghost.”

I expect it was the spaniel,”

said the niece calmly. “He told me he had a horror of dogs. He was once hunted by a pack of dogs somewhere on the banks of the Ganges in India. He had to spend

the night with the creatures snarling and grinning and foaming just above him. Enough to make anyone lose their nerve.”

Romance on short notice was

her specialty.

Romance on short notice was her specialty. l. In this sentence from the passage, the word Romance means A. love. B. emotion. C. fantasy. D. novel.

“Who was that who bolted out as we came up?” 2. Bolted is to waited as vacation is to A. break. B. work. C. stay. D. lock.


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3. Why is it important to the plot that Vera meets with Mr. Nuttel before her aunt comes into the room? A. Mr. Nuttel needs to learn about his hostess. B. Vera wants to keep her aunt from being upset. C. Vera’s aunt knows the truth about the hunters. D. Being around many people is Mr. Nuttel’s problem.

4. The archetypal child from the era, which Vera’s character contrasts would have been A. wild and imaginative. B. quiet and serious. C. athletic and adventurous. D. playful and humorous.

5. Which is the best way to show on a note card how Vera solves the problem she has caused by telling Mr. Nuttel the story about the hunters? A. Vera tells story → goes outside to be alone B. Vera tells story → makes up another story C. Vera tells story → introduces the hunters D. Vera tells story → apologizes to her aunt


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fearful naïve self-absorbed

polite

imaginative self-confident calm

brave clever calm

unkind excitable stern

truthful

stern excitable imaginative

self- confident

brave nervous clever

unkind nervous truthful

fearful naïve self-absorbed polite

6. Which graphic organizer best represents the character traits of Mr. Nuttel and Vera?

A. Mr. Nuttel Vera

B. Mr. Nuttel Vera

C. Mr. Nuttel Vera

D. Mr. Nuttel Vera


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Directions: Read the selection below. Then read each question and choose the best answer.

from The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

A Dinner Party The Coreys were one of the few old families who lingered in Bellingham Place, the handsome, quiet old street which the sympathetic observer must grieve to see abandoned to boarding-houses. The dwellings are stately and tall, and the whole place wears an air of aristocratic seclusion, which Mrs. Corey’s father might well have thought assured when he left her his house there at his death. It is one of two evidently designed by the same architect who built some houses in a characteristic taste on Beacon Street opposite the Common. . . . “Ah, Colonel Lapham! Very glad to see you.” Lapham shook hands with him [Corey] and gasped, “Waiting for Mis’ Lapham,” to account for his presence. He had not been able to button his right glove, and he now began, with as much indifference as he could assume, to pull them both off, for he saw that Corey wore none. By the time he had stuffed them into the pocket of his coat-skirt, his wife and daughter descended. Corey welcomed them very cordially too, but looked a little mystified. Mrs. Lapham knew that he was silently inquiring for Penelope, and she did not know whether she ought to excuse her to him first or not. She said nothing, and after a glance toward the regions where Penelope might conjecturably be lingering, he held aside the portiere¹ for the Laphams to pass, and entered the room with them. Mrs. Lapham had decided against low-necks² on her own responsibility, and had [decided on] the safety of a black silk, in which she looked very handsome. Irene wore a dress of one of those shades which only a woman or an artist can decide to be green or blue , and which to other eyes looks both or neither, according to their degrees of ignorance. If it was more like a ball dress than a dinner dress, that might be excused to the exquisite effect. . . . Lapham had never seen people go down to dinner arm-in-arm before, but he knew that his wife was distinguished in being taken out by the host, . . . He fetched a long sigh of relief when he sank into his chair and felt himself safe from error if he kept a sharp lookout and did only what the others did. Bellingham had certain habits which he permitted himself, and one of these was tucking the corner of his napkin into his collar; he confessed himself an uncertain shot with a spoon, and defended his practice on the ground of neatness and common-sense. Lapham put his napkin into his collar too, and then, seeing that no one but Bellingham did it, became alarmed and took it out again slyly. ¹ portiere: curtain hanging across a doorway ² low-necks: fashionable, low-cut dresses


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He never had wine on his table at home, and on principle he was a prohibitionist: but now he did not know just what to do about the glasses at the right of his plate. He had a notion to turn them all down, as he had read of a well-known politician’s doing at a public dinner, to show that he did not take wine; but, after twiddling with one of them a moment, he let them be, for it seemed to him that would be a little too conspicuous, and he felt that everyone was looking. He let the servant fill them all, and he drank out of each, not to appear odd. Later, he observed that the young ladies were not taking wine, and he was glad to see that Irene had refused it, and that Mrs. Lapham was letting it stand untasted. He did not know but he ought to decline some of the dishes, or at least leave most of some on his plate, but he was not able to decide; he took everything and ate everything. . . . He began to tell stories of the different young men he had had in his employ. At last he had the talk altogether to himself; no one else talked, and he talked unceasingly. It was a great time; it was a triumph. . . . Ten years ago he, Silas Lapham, had come to Boston a little worse off than nothing at all, for he was in debt for half the money that he had bought out his partner with, and here he was now worth a million, and meeting you gentlemen like one of you. And every cent of that was honest money—no speculation—every copper of it for value received. And here, only the other day, his old partner, who had been going to the dogs ever since he went out of the business, came and borrowed twenty thousand dollars of him! Lapham lent it because his wife wanted him to: she had always felt bad about the fellow’s having to go out of the business. He took leave of Mr. Sewell with patronizing³ affection, and bade him come to him if he ever got into a tight place with his parish work; he would let him have all the money he wanted; he had more money than he knew what to do with. ³ patronizing: belittling

7. Why might an observer be sorry to see the houses on Bellingham Place become boarding houses? A. It means that the neighborhood and its economy are increasing in value. B. It indicates that commercial real estate is increasing in value. C. It means that the neighborhood and its economy are stable. D. It indicates that the neighborhood and its economy are in a decline.

8. Based on the context of the fourth paragraph, what does the word lingering mean? A. living B. growing up C. moving slowly D. sleeping


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9. From the thoughts of Lapham, what can be inferred about the ways he and his friends regard money? A. Money makes the man. B. Money is not everything. C. Money does not grow on trees. D. Money is the root of all evil.

11. Using context clues from the story, which statement best represents irony? A. “. . . he had more money than he knew what to do with.” B. “It was a great time; it was a triumph.” C. “Mrs. Lapham had decided against low-necks on her own responsibility. . . ” D. “By the time he had stuffed [his gloves] into the pocket of his coat-skirt, his wife and daughter descended.”

10. Why does Lapham feel relieved when he finally sits down at the dinner table? A. He can talk business with the gentleman seated to his left. B. He can slip off his shoes and wiggle his toes. C. He can get some rest at last. D. He can mimic what other diners at the table are doing.

12. What makes Lapham believe that his wife has been honored by their host? A. He called her by her first name. B. The host took her down to dinner arm-in-arm. C. He gave her extra wine. D. He named the dessert after her.


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13. Which action of Irene’s is a source of relief to Silas Lapham? A. She eats all her vegetables. B. She takes her seat next to their host, Mr. Corey. C. She refuses the wine. D. She excuses herself from the dinner table.

14. Both the Saki and Howells excerpts portray characters who are nervous worriers. These characters are: A. Mr. Nuttel and Mr. Lapham B. Mr. Nuttel and Mrs. Lapham C. Vera and Mrs. Lapham D. Vera and Irene

15. Both selections deal with the issues of A. life and death. B. love and hate. C. appearances and perceptions. D. nature and humanity. 16. The tone of both selections is best described as A. somber. B. sarcastic. C. despairing. D. humorous.


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Directions: Read the selection. Then, answer the questions that follow.

excerpted lines from “Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog” by Mark Twain

Thish-yer Smily had a mare—the boys called her the fifteen-minute nag, but that was only in fun, you know, because, of course, she was faster than that—and he use to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They use to give her two or three hundred yards’ start, and then pass her under way; but always at the fag-end of the race she’d get excited and desperate-like, and come cavorting and spraddling up, and scattering her legs around limber, sometimes in the air, and sometimes out to one side amongst the fences, and kicking up m-o-r-e dust, and raising m-o-r-e racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose—and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead, as near as you could cipher it down.

19. Which is the most accurate paraphrase of “scattering her legs around limber”? A. breaking her legs because they were too weak B. losing her legs C. tripping over lumber D. flailing her legs awkwardly

17. Which phrase from the selection is an example of regional dialect? A. Thish-yer Smily B. the fifteen-minute nag C. something of that kind D. kicking up m-o-r-e dust

20. What is the main technique Twain uses to create humor in the selection? A. understatement B. exaggeration C. joke telling D. puns

18. What does the phrase thish-yer mean? A. fissure B. this here C. it’s your D. farmer


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21. Considering the setting of this selection, which of the following is important to the selection? A. romanticism B. realism C. classicism D. regionalism

22. What is the best question to ask yourself to increase your understanding of the selection? A. Why am I reading this selection? B. What other selections has the author written? C. What is happening in this part? D. To whom is the narrator telling this story?

23. What is the tone of the selection? A. pessimistic B. confused C. humorous D. matter-of-fact


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Directions: Read the selection. Then, answer the questions that follow.

excerpted lines from “Dead Men Tell No Tales” by Haniel Long

1 THEY say that dead men tell no tales! Except of barges with red sails And sailors mad for nightingales; Except of jongleurs stretched at ease 5 Beside old highways through the trees; Except of dying moons that break The hearts of lads who lie awake; Except of fortresses in shade, And heroes crumbled and betrayed. 10 But dead men tell no tales, they say! Except old tales that burn away The stifling tapestries of day: Old tales of life, of love and hate, Of time and space, and will, and fate. —from “Dead Men Tell No Tales” by Haniel Long

24. Why is the poem ironic? A. because the title and refrain contradict the meaning B. because the speaker displays verbal irony C. because the tone of the poem is wry D. because readers are aware of information that the speaker does not know

25. What is the relationship of the title to the theme of the poem? A. The title expresses the theme. B. The title contradicts the theme. C. The title is unrelated to the theme. D. The title illuminates an aspect of the theme.


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26. Which is the best summary of the theme of the poem? A. Dead people have no place in the memory of the living. B. The dead are more imaginative than the living. C. The dead live on in history. D. The dead are best forgotten.

28. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the meaning of this line from the poem? The stifling tapestries of day: A. cares and worries of the working day B. difficulties of weaving tapestries C. polluted atmosphere created by factories D. oppressive everyday reality

27. What kind of rhyme did Haniel Long use in this poem? A. exact B. slant C. internal D. blank verse

29. What is the poem’s rhyme scheme in lines 1-5? A. aababb B. abccc C. aaabb D. aaccd


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Directions: Read the selection below. Then read each question and choose the best answer.

The Cremation of Sam McGee By Robert W. Service

There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil¹ for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen [strange] sights, But the [strangest] they ever did see Was the night on the marge² of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee. Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the South to roam ‘round the Pole, God only knows. He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell; Though he’d often say in his homely way that “he’d sooner live in hell”. On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail. Talk of your cold! Through the parka’s fold it stabbed like a driven nail. If our eyes we’d close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn’t see; It wasn’t much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee. And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow, And the dogs were fed, and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel and toe, He turned to me, and “Cap,” says he, “I’ll cash in this trip, I guess; And if I do, I’m asking that you won’t refuse my last request.” Well, he seemed so low that I couldn’t say no; then he says with a sort of moan: “It’s the cursed cold, and it’s got right hold till I’m chilled clean through to the bone. Yet ‘taint being dead—it’s my awful dread of the icy grave that pains; So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you’ll cremate my last remains.” A pal’s last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail; And we started on at the streak of dawn; but God! He looked ghastly pale. He crouched on the sleigh, and he raved all day of his home in Tennessee; And before nightfall a corpse was all that was left of Sam McGee. Continued. . . . . ¹ moil: toil

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There wasn’t a breath in that land of death, and I hurried, horror-driven, With a corpse half hid that I couldn’t get rid, because of a promise given; It was lashed to the sleigh, and it seemed to say: “You may tax your brawn and brains, But you promised true, and it’s up to you to cremate those last remains.” Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code. In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load. In the long, long night, by the lone firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring, Howled out their woes to the homeless snows—O God! How I loathed the thing. And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow; And on I went, though the dogs were spent and the grub was getting low; The trail was bad, and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in; And I’d often sing to the hateful thing, and it hearkened³ with a grin. Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict4 there lay; It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the “Alice May”. And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; Then “Here,” said I, with a sudden cry, “is my cre-ma-tor-eum”. Some planks I tore from the cabin floor, and I lit the boiler fire; Some coal I found that was lying around, and I heaped the fuel higher; The flames just soared, and the furnace roared—such a blaze you seldom see; And I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and I stuffed in Sam McGee. Then I made a hike, for I didn’t like to hear him sizzle so; And the heavens scowled, and the huskies howled, and the wind began to blow. It was icy cold, but the hot sweat rolled down my cheeks, and I don’t know why; And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky. I do not know how long in the snow I wrestled with grisly fear; But the stars came out and they danced about [before] again I ventured near; I was sick with dread, but I bravely said: “I’ll just take a peep inside. I guess he’s cooked, and it’s time I looked;” . . . then the door I opened wide. And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar; And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said, “Please close that door. It’s fine in here, but I greatly fear you’ll let in the cold and storm– Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it’s the first time I’ve been warm.” 3 hearkened: listened carefully 4 derelict: an abandoned ship


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30. What is the main conflict in this poem? A. whether to keep a promise to a dead man to cremate him or not B. whether to continue the journey or not C. the conflict of man against man D. the conflict of man against nature in the Arctic wilderness

32. Why does the narrator walk away from the blazing furnace? A. He does not want to hear the sizzle. B. He has no other place to go. C. Sam McGee asked to cremate him privately. D. He always takes a walk every day.

31. When did Sam McGee die? A. on Christmas Day B. on New Year’s Eve C. on the summer solstice D. on St. Swithin’s Day

33. What mood is created by the following details from the poem? “awful dread of the icy grave,” “he looked ghastly pale” A. joyfulness and playfulness B. serenity and bliss C. dread and fear D. curiosity and inquisitiveness


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34. Why does the narrator continue to carry the corpse of Sam McGee on his sled? A. He has promised McGee that he would cremate his body. B. No one else would do it. C. He is heading to McGee’s home town. D. He is delivering the corpse to Dawson.

36. “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is which kind of poem? A. narrative ballad B. sonnet C. allegory D. haiku

35. Based on the context of this selection, what does the word cremation mean? A. to fortify with heavy cream B. to reduce a dead body to ashes by burning C. to purify or bleach by exposure to the sun for sustained periods D. to firmly affix with glue

37. What is it that Sam fears? A. an icy grave B. sunburn C. becoming lost in the tundra D. spiders


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38. In the first stanza, what does the speaker claim is the “strangest” thing that has happened in the Arctic region? A. seeing the aurora borealis B. hearing wolves howl at night at the midnight sun C. being snow-blinded by blizzard D. cremating Sam McGee

39. To what sense or senses does Robert W. Service appeal to in this poem? A. sight B. hearing C. smell D. all of the senses

40. In the poem excerpt by Long and the poem by Service, both poems rely on what sort of rhyme? A. lambic pentameter B. quatrains C. complets D. blank verse

41. Both poems deal with the theme of A. friendship. B. death. C. the harshness of nature. D. betrayal.


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Sandy Smart Mrs. Johnson English III 30 October 2008

Hoover Dam: Conquering the Mighty Colorado River

[1] Hoover Dam, sometimes referred to as Boulder Dam, was constructed between 1931 and 1935 to

harness the waters of the wild Colorado River. [2] The dam was a challenging task for even the most

experienced professionals. [3] Many have called Hoover Dam a wonder of the modern world because of

its unprecedented massive size and its designers’ ingenuity in overcoming obstacles that were considered

impossible barriers at the time (Stevens). . . . .

Works Cited

The American Experience: Hoover Dam. Dir. Stephen Stept. Videocassette.

PBS Video, 1999.

“Herbert Hoover and the Colorado River.” Hoover Dam. U.S. Department

of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. 16 April 2002.

“The Story of Hoover Dam.” Hoover Dam. U.S. Department of the Interior,

Bureau of Reclamation. 16 April 2002.

“Hoover Dam: Source of the American West’s Oasis Civilization.”

SunsetCities.com. 16 June 2002.

Stevens, Joseph E. Hoover Dam: An American Adventure. Norman and

London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

Directions: Sandy is writing a research paper on the building of the Hoover Dam. Her research question is What made the Hoover Dam the most amazing engineering accomplishment of its time? Read Sandy’s draft and answer questions 42 and 43.


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42. What change, if any, should be made to Works Cited? A. Use alphabetical order B. Underline book titles C. List dates first D. Leave as is

43. What change, if any, should be made to the heading for the essay? A. No change B. Identical except double-spaced C. Double-spaced with the following: Sandy Smart

Mrs. Johnson

Research Paper

English III

D. Single-spaced with the following: Sandy Smart Mrs. Johnson Research Paper English III


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44. What change, if any, should be made to the underlined words in sentence 1? A. Change along to a long. B. Change different to diffrent. C. Change evident to evidence. D. Change vary to very.

45. What change, if any, should be made to the underlined part in sentence 2? A. king: in B. king; in C. South: cotton D. South; cotton

46. What change, if any, should be made to sentence 4? A. Change all topics to all were topics. B. Change Education to In education. C. Change science to are science. D. Change and reform to and to reform.

[1] By the mid-nineteenth century, it was evident that the North and South had developed along vary

different lines. [2] In the North, commerce was king, in the South, cotton ruled. [3] The Industrial

Revolution and cheap transportation had helped turn northern towns and cities into centers of bustling

activity. [4] Education, banking, science, and reform movements—all topics of interest and concern. [5]

Emmigration, too, was changing the face of the North. [6] A rising tide of Irish and Germans who came to

the United States, among others, came seeking new lives in the United States. [7] Most of these newcomers

landed at seaports in the northern states and settled between Boston and Baltimore.

[8] One issue, however, made an indelible impression: slavery. [9] The South believed their lifeblood

depended on the institution of slavery. [10] The South, in contrast, was a more slower-paced region of

plantations and small farms. [11] There were cities, to be sure, but the area was defined by its cotton

plantations, large and small. [12] Sugar, rice, and tobacco were also important crops. [13] The march of

technological progress, with its hotly debated social issues and problems, had little impact on the prewar

South.


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47. What change, if any, should be made to the underlined words in sentence 5? A. Change too to to. B. Change face to phase. C. Change of to off. D. Change Emmigration to Immigration.

50. What change, if any, should be made to more slower-paced in sentence 10? A. Change more slower-paced to the slowest-paced . B. Change more slower-paced to slower-paced. C. Change more slower-paced to most slower-paced. D. No change.

48. What change, if any, should be made to sentence 6? A. A rising tide of Irish and Germans came to the United Sates, among others, came seeking new lives in the United States. B. A rising tide of Irish and Germans, among others, came seeking new lives in the United Sates. C. A rising tide of Irish and Germans, among others, came seeking new lives, in the United States. D. A rising tide of Irish and Germans came to the United States, among others; came seeking new lives in the United States.

49. What change, if any, should be made to their in sentence 9? A. Change their to his. B. Change their to its. C. Change their to her. D. No change.


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Directions The next section contains questions in which you will respond in writing. You will need to refer back to the selections cited within each question. Your responses should be written on your own lined paper.

51. Using examples from the text, identify and explain the use of foreshadowing in “The Open Window” by Saki. How does the use of foreshadowing contribute to the story?


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ANSWER KEY:

1. C 31. A 2. B 32. A 3. C 33. C 4. B 34. A 5. B 35. B 6. A 36. A 7. D 37. A 8. C 38. D 9. A 39. D 10. D 40. C 11. B 41. B 12. B 42. A 13. C 43. B 14. A 44. D 15. C 45. B 16. D 46. A 17. A 47. D 18. B 48. B 19. D 49. B 20. B 50. B 21. D 22. C 23. C 24. A 25. B 26. C 27. A 28. D 29. C 30. A

Written Response Scoring Rubric _____ Ideas are fully developed and elaborated using details, examples, reasons, or evidence……..4 points _____ Ideas are developed using some details, examples, reasons, and/or evidence………………...3 points _____ Ideas are minimally developed with few details………………………………………………2 points _____ Ideas lack development or may be repetitive………………………………………………….1 points _____ No attempt to answer the question…………………………………………………………….0 points

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