English 11a unit 1 Exam

What evidence from "Street Farmer" supports the inference that Will Allen is always looking for ways to expand urban gardening?

As Allen can't help reminding us, with a mischievous smile, "Chicago has 77,000 vacant lots."

Which option most accurately describes a key point of "Conservation as a National Duty"?

Decisions about the use of natural resources should be based on the good of the community, not the individual.

Which option most accurately states a central idea from "Street Farmer"?

Food and animal waste can be repurposed to benefit people and the environment.

Which excerpt from "Street Farmer" contains an allusion?

If inside the greenhouse was Eden, outdoors was, as Allen explained on a drive through the neighborhood, "a food desert."

What evidence from "Conservation as a National Duty" supports the inference that Roosevelt believes the focus on industrialization and accumulation has negatively affected the character of American citizens?

So great and so rapid has been our material growth that there has been a tendency to lag behind in spiritual and moral growth

Read the sentences from Walden by Henry David Thoreau. The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? Which option most effectively explains the meaning of the figure of speech used in this excerpt?

Thoreau regrets conforming to the expectations of others.

What evidence from "Street Farmer" supports the idea that urban gardening generates employment opportunities? (Select all that apply.)

Without microbe - and nutrient-rich worm castings ... [Allen's farm] couldn't employ scores of people, some from the nearby housing project. And in May, the Kellogg Foundation gave Allen $400,000 to create jobs in urban agriculture.

Read the sentence. Once the fundraising campaign is complete, the committee will collaborate for several hours to ensure an equitable distribution of monies to the charities they support. Based on its function in the sentence, what is the most accurate definition of the word equitable?

fair and even

Read the sentences. We always invite Alberto to our house to join us in preparing holiday meals. He really knows his way around the kitchen. The explicit meaning of the sentence is that Alberto can move easily from one place in the kitchen to the next. What is the implicit meaning of the sentence?

Alberto is a good cook.

In which sentence is symbiotic used correctly?

Barnacles and whales have a symbiotic relationship; barnacles attach themselves to whales for a safe place to live and transportation to food sources, and whales benefit from the protective, spiny barrier that barnacles provide.

Read the paragraph. Desert tortoises are designed to thrive in their environment. Their front legs are flat like paddles, which helps them dig. They make burrows to sleep in and for protection. Their back legs are short and sturdy to help them evenly distribute their body weight and walk in sand. An inference that can be made from this paragraph is that desert tortoises have natural enemies that they must hide from. Which response provides the most effective support for this inference?

Desert tortoises make burrows to sleep in and for protection

What information from "Street Farmer" addresses the question "What is aquaponics"?

Pumps send the dirty fish water up into beds of watercress, which filter pollutants and trickle the cleaner water back down to the fish.

Read the sentence from "Street Farmer." Will Allen, a farmer of Bunyanesque proportions, ascended a berm of wood chips and brewer's mash and gently probed it with a pitchfork. How does the figure of speech impact the meaning of the text?

The allusion to Paul Bunyan develops the idea that Will Allen is large in both size and personality.

Which excerpt from "Street Farmer" contains figurative language? (Select all that apply)

The farmers in training hung on every word. NOT CORRECT:"There's a spirit in how he says things; you want to be part of his community." COULD BE CORRECT:"I'd run my experiments over and over and over — just like an athlete operates."

How does the organizational structure of "Conservation as a National Duty" facilitate the development of ideas in the speech?

The problem/solution structure establishes how the problem came to be, describes the potential outcomes, and suggests actions for resolution.

Read the sentence. The former senator fell to the floor in gratitude when he received the news that he was nominated to serve as Secretary of Defense. The phrase "fell to the floor" is __________. Which response most effectively completes the sentence?

an instance of hyperbole

Read the sentence from "Conservation as a National Duty." Indeed, the growth of this Nation by leaps and bounds makes one of the most striking and important chapters in the history of the world. What is the meaning of the figurative language in this sentence? (Select all that apply.)

chapters in the history of the world compares periods of time to parts of a book by leaps and bounds means moving forward with rapid progress

Which option most accurately describes the main purpose of "Conservation as a National Duty"?

to establish policy to preserve natural resources for future generations

Read the sentence. A key point from "Conservation as a National Duty" is that __________. Which option most accurately completes the sentence?

with industrialization comes a greater dependence on natural resources

What evidence from "Street Farmer" most effectively supports the inference that Ted Allen opposes current food production methods? (Select all that apply.)

"It's a form of redlining," Allen said. "We've got to change the system so everyone has safe, equitable access to healthy food." Allen, who is 60, asserts that our industrial food system is depleting soil, poisoning water, gobbling fossil fuels and stuffing us with bad calories.

What evidence from "Conservation as a National Duty" most effectively establishes that Roosevelt's speech is structured to bring attention to an issue and make a call to action for change?

I have asked you to come together now because the enormous consumption of these resources, and the threat of imminent exhaustion of some of them, due to reckless and wasteful use, once more calls for common effort, common action. NOT CORRECT: Now, I ask you to think what that means; and I am speaking with historic literalness. In the development, the use, and therefore the exhaustion of certain of the natural resources, the progress has been more rapid in the past century and a quarter than during all preceding time of which we have record. COULD BE RIGHT: This Conference on the conservation of natural resources is in effect a meeting of the representatives of all the people of the United States called to consider the weightiest problem now before the Nation; and the occasion for the meeting lies in the fact that the natural resources of our country are in danger of exhaustion if we permit the old wasteful methods of exploiting them longer to continue.

What textual evidence from "Conservation as a National Duty" most effectively supports the idea that natural resources are being depleted at the fastest rate in history?

In the development, the use, and therefore the exhaustion of certain of the natural resources, the progress has been more rapid in the past century and a quarter than during all preceding time of which we have record.

Read the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation. Which option most accurately describes a purpose of this text?

It describes rights to life, freedom, and property.

Read the sentence from "Street Farmer." "Creating soil from waste is what I enjoy most," he said. "Anyone can grow food." By stating "Anyone can grow food," Allen actually means he __________. Which option accurately completes the sentence?

NOT CORRECT: feels uncomfortable receiving praise for his work COULD BE CORRECT: feels content doing work that brings him pleasure

Read the sentences. Sentence 1: Michael is an expert tennis player and he practices for hours a day. Sentence 2: Because he practices for hours a day, Michael is an expert tennis player. Which option most accurately describes the difference between the structures of the two sentences?

Sentence 1 is a compound sentence; Sentence 2 is a complex sentence.

Read the sentence. After researching which plants were native to her part of the country and carefully planning the layout of her garden, Amanda was ready to __________ her garden and watch it grow. Which option shows the word (with its definition) that most effectively completes the sentence?

cultivate to prepare for planting

Read the paragraph from "Conservation as a National Duty." Since then our knowledge and use of the resources of the present territory of the United States have increased a hundred-fold. Indeed, the growth of this Nation by leaps and bounds makes one of the most striking and important chapters in the history of the world. Its growth has been due to the rapid development, and alas that it should be said! to the rapid destruction, of our natural resources. Nature has supplied to us in the United States, and still supplies to us, more kinds of resources in a more lavish degree than has ever been the case at any other time or with any other people. Our position in the world has been attained by the extent and thoroughness of the control we have achieved over nature; but we are more, and not less, dependent upon what she furnishes than at any previous time of history since the days of primitive man. What evidence establishes the structure of the paragraph as cause and effect?

due to; attained by