Unit Test/ Unit Test Review

To evaluate the clarity of a written procedure, which questions should a reader ask? Check all that apply.

Is it complete? Is it easy to follow? Is it plainly written?

In poetry, diction is the poet's

word choice

Which statements about Outcasts United express theme? Check all that apply.

One person can help many others. Sports can unite people.

One reason that Korns's excerpt from "How to Ride" would score higher than Ward's excerpt from The Common Sense of Bicycling: Bicycling for Ladies when evaluated for clarity is that

it is more complete.

Read this description of the man in "The Legend." A few sounds escape from his mouth, a babbling no one understands as people surround him bewildered at his speech. The noises he makes are nothing to them. What theme does the speaker's description of the man support?

People who do not speak English are invisible in US society.

A word's denotation is

its literal meaning.

In an interview, Garrett Hongo stated that he wrote the poem "The Legend" after he saw on the news that an Asian man was accidentally shot on a Chicago street. Hongo dedicates his poem "In memory of Jay Kashiwamura." Readers can most likely assume that this name alludes to

the man who was shot in Chicago.

When a reader evaluates the clarity of a written procedure, which would be considered an error in organization?

disordered steps

Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country." What is the point of this splintered whole? What is the point of a nation in which Arab cabbies chauffeur Jewish passengers through the streets of New York—and in which Jewish cabbies chauffeur Arab passengers, too, and yet speak in theory of hatred, one for the other? What is the point of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the verge of fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and straights, left and right, Pole and Chinese and Puerto Rican and Slovenian? Other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities. Which statement best summarizes the central idea of this paragraph?

America is a united country despite its cultural differences.

Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country." Today the citizens of the United States have come together once more because of armed conflict and enemy attack. Terrorism has led to devastation—and unity. Which statement best explains the role context plays in better understanding this excerpt?

Knowing that Quindlen wrote this piece after the 9/11 attacks helps readers understand her viewpoint, which is that tragedy unites people.

Read these excerpts from "Fences." Mouths full of laughter, the turistas come to the tall hotel with suitcases full of dollars. Every morning my brother makes the cool beach new for them. With a wooden board he smooths away all footprints. ... Once my little sister ran barefoot across the hot sand for a taste. My mother roared like the ocean, "No. No. It's their beach. It's their beach." What theme is revealed by the speaker's view of the tourists?

Money is a powerful force in the world.

Read the excerpt from Ward's The Common Sense of Bicycling: Bicycling for Ladies. Now, the question of that other foot. By this time which "the other foot" is will have become quite evident; it is always the foot to which attention for the moment in not directed, and which consequently may meet unexpected disaster—a lost pedal, perhaps, with its accompanying inconveniences. Which evaluation for clarity is most valid?

Ward's passage is clear, but Korns's passage would be easier to follow with more precise language.

Read the excerpt from Outcasts United. Somehow, Luma would have to find a way to get all these kids to play as a unit. "It was about trying to figure out what they have in common," she said. While Luma was trying to find a way to get the kids to play together, she was also getting to know their parents, most of whom were single mothers. She quickly discovered that these women needed help—mostly in understanding paperwork. With her Arabic and French, Luma was able to translate documents and answer some of their questions. She made appointments with doctors and social workers. Luma gave her cell phone number to her players and their families, and soon they were calling with requests for help. Teachers learned to call Luma when her players' parents couldn't be found or were at work. The families showed their gratitude by offering Luma tea and inviting her to dinner. Luma felt needed, and couldn't help but notice how much better this kind of work felt than running Ashton's. Based on Luma's actions, which statement best describes the theme in this excerpt?

One person can make a huge difference in the lives of others.

Read the excerpt from Outcasts United. Luma pulled her Volkswagen Beetle into the center's parking lot on a sunny June afternoon in 2004, before her team's first tryouts. She wasn't sure what kind of response her flyers had generated among the boys in the complexes around Clarkston. They were naturally wary. But on the other side of town, Jeremiah Ziaty had no doubt about his enthusiasm for the new team. His mother was still at work when he set out from the family's apartment, a small backpack on his shoulder, ready to play. When Jeremiah arrived at the center, he joined twenty-two other boys on the small field behind the building. Which statement best describes how the author is developing the plot in this excerpt?

The author is describing two plots at the same time before moving on with the chronological order of the story.

ad the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country." America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion, the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone. "Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image," the historian Daniel Boorstin wrote. That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal. The reality is often quite different, a great national striving consisting frequently of failure. Many of the oft-told stories of the most pluralistic nation on earth are stories not of tolerance, but of bigotry. Slavery and sweatshops, the burning of crosses and the ostracism of the other. Children learn in social-studies class and in the news of the lynching of blacks, the denial of rights to women, the murders of gay men. It is difficult to know how to convince them that this amounts to "crown thy good with brotherhood," that amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful. Perhaps they understand it at this moment [in the aftermath of 9/11], when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, demands a time of reflection on enormous blessings. Which statement best traces the development of a central idea from one paragraph to the next?

The first paragraph discusses the idea that Americans are united as one despite their differences. The second paragraph discusses the idea that acts of intolerance make it difficult to believe that Americans are united as one.