Cumulative Exam Review

For me, reading has always been a path toward liberation and fulfillment. To learn to read is to start down the road of liberation, a road which should be accessible to everyone. No one has the right to keep you from reading, and yet that is what is happening in many areas in this country today. There are those who think they know best what we should read. These censors are at work in all areas of our daily lives. Which best describes how Anaya uses rhetorical appeal to convince readers that censors want to limit what people can read?

Anaya speaks about everyone's right to read what they choose in order to appeal to the reader's sense of fairness.

Most of you probably are fans of typical American sports, such as baseball and basketball. However, I urge you to consider watching and participating in sports that are popular in other nations. Most of us are familiar with soccer. However, few of us realize that it is the most popular sport in the world. You've all experienced Super Bowl Sunday madness, but that is nothing compared to the international frenzy that sweeps across our planet every four years when soccer's World Cup occurs. Watching the games of the World Cup can be a fun way to connect with other sports fans around the globe.

to persuade

If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. What is the author's purpose for including this sentence?

to undermine the significance of his critics' letter

What is a counterclaim in an argumentative speech?

A counterclaim is a possible objection to the thesis.

My friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. He took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of Spanish, English, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. In other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. At a neighborhood fair in Texas, somewhere between the German Oom-pah Sausage Stand and the Mexican Gorditas booth, I overheard a young man say to his friend, "I wish I had a heritage. Sometimes I feel—so lonely for one." And the tall American trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. Which best states how the structures of both excerpts support ideas about cultural diversity?

Each incorporates non-English words.

Which sentence best demonstrates the language required of an argumentative speech?

Every high school in the county must provide its students with thorough information about college entrance exams.

Read the excerpt from "In Response to Executive Order 9066." I tell her she's going bald. She tells me I copy on tests. We're best friends. Read the excerpt from "Mericans." "Girl. We can't play with a girl." Girl. It's my brother's favorite insult now instead of "sissy." "You girl," they yell at each other. "You throw that ball like a girl." Which theme best describes the two passages?

In all cultures, children playfully taunt one another.

In chapter three, Joseph feels confused about the way things happened at the court house. Which is the best revision of this sentence using academic vocabulary?

In chapter three, the reader learns that Joseph feels confused about the events that occurred at the court house.

Which excerpt from The Great Gatsby best indicates that Nick is not fully content with his life?

Instead of being the warm center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go East and learn the bond business.

Offshore drilling will decrease the United States' dependency on foreign oil.

Offshore reserves could supply the US with energy needs for two years.

Read the lines from "Harlem." Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Read the lines from "The Weary Blues." He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway. Which best describes the relationship between these lines?

The lines from "Harlem" and the lines from "The Weary Blues" both provide details using the sense of sight.

The speaker of Okita's poem tries to present herself in ways that have little to do with her customs. Which is the best revision of this sentence using academic vocabulary?

The speaker of Okita's poem attempts to characterize herself in ways that have little to do with her heritage.

Read the paragraph from an essay on preventing school bullying. (1) Bullying has a significant impact on a student's physical and emotional well being. (2) There are many school programs that will help stop bullying. (3) Establishing a school culture that focuses on acceptance, respect, and tolerance is crucial in putting an end to bullying. Which sentence logically fits right before sentence 3?

While some programs focus on assisting those who are affected by bullying, others concentrate on changing the behavior of the bullies.

Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They were not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size. I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. The use of words such as "fashionable," "superficial," "bizarre," and "sinister" provide

a sense of artificiality in the world the narrator finds himself in.

Read the excerpt from "Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry." In other cases, the censoring has been direct and brutal. On February 28, 1981 the morning newspaper carried a story about the burning of my novel, Bless Me, Ultima. The book was banned from high school classes in Bloomfield, New Mexico, and a school board member was quoted as saying: "We took the books out and personally saw that they were burned." Which type of rhetoric used most shows how the powerful use censorship to silence the powerless?

an appeal to logic

The speaker in "The Weary Blues" is most likely

an audience member at a blues show.

Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. How does King support this claim?

by describing a law about parade permits

I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. How does King support this claim in the rest of his letter?

by quoting Socrates and establishing historical precedent

Read the student thesis, then answer the question. Parents should, if they choose, limit the amount of television their children are viewing. The best way to improve this thesis is to

express a viewpoint.

The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight, and turning my head to watch it, I saw that I was not alone—fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor's mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars. Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens. The appearance of Gatsby from the shadows suggests that

he is a man of mystery and secrets.

Read the lines from "The Weary Blues." Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor. He played a few chords then he sang some more.

onomatopoeia

In order to write a strong essay that links together related ideas and sentences, the writer must employ

transitions.