practice test

Which American literary work reflects slavery, colonialism, and racial battles during the Seven Years' War?

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Which statement illustrates the intent of an author?

In A Doll's House, Ibsen challenges the traditional gender roles and societal expectations of women in 19th-century marriage

Read the passage from a work of British literature: "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."Another effort set me at liberty, and I stood erect before him."And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my possessions.""You play a farce, which I merely laugh at.""I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.""For that fate you have already made your choice, and must abide by it." Which work is quoted?

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Read the excerpt: I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford. It was a Saturday night in December. Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching that place would offer, till the following Monday. Which literary work from the Colonial period of American literary history is quoted?

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

Which literary work published in 1936 reflects a breakdown in gender roles and social hierarchy in response to the Emancipation Proclamation?

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Read the excerpt: Once in a while he withdrew his glance from the newspaper and looked about him. There was more noise than ever over at the house. The main building was called "the house," to distinguish it from the cottages. The chattering and whistling birds were still at it. Two young girls, the Farival twins, were playing a duet from "Zampa" upon the piano. Madame Lebrun was bustling in and out, giving orders in a high key to a yard-boy whenever she got inside the house, and directions in an equally high voice to a dining-room servant whenever she got outside. Which literary work from the Realism period of American literary history is quoted?

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The following excerpt is from a literary work written during the Renaissance period of American literary history. Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light. Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the Saturday Evening Post—the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune. The lamplight, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms. Which work is quoted?

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Read the excerpt: The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston; all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door. Amongst any other population, or at a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand. It could have betokened nothing short of the anticipated execution of some noted culprit, on whom the sentence of a legal tribunal had but confirmed the verdict of public sentiment. But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn. Which literary work from the Colonial period of American literary history is quoted?

The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Read the passage from War and Peace: The movement of humanity, arising as it does from innumerable arbitrary human wills, is continuous ....Historical science in its endeavor to draw nearer to truth continually takes smaller and smaller units for examination. But however small the units it takes, we feel that to take any unit disconnected from others, or to assume a beginning of any phenomenon, or to say that the will of many men is expressed by the actions of any one historic personage, is in itself false ....Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation ... and attaining to the art of integrating them ... can we hope to arrive at the laws of history. What is Leo Tolstoy's intent in this passage?

The author is critiquing the tendency to explain historical events by using isolated events or individual, often great, historical actors.

The following summary pertains to a novel from American literature. A number of Native American characters in the Oakland, California area come together at an organized powwow. Before the powwow, the characters' journeys are described, including struggles with depression, alcoholism, and ethnic identity. Which novel is described?

There There by Tommy Orange

Which strategy is helpful for students who are struggling with comprehension?

Use graphic organizers aligned with text structure

what is one benefit of using multimedia tools in vocab instruction?

enhanced retention

what is the strand in the skilled writing rope that contains grammar?

syntax

Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in 1776 within the historical context of the American Revolution. He wrote the pamphlet in order to advocate for the independence of the American colonies. Both logos and emotional appeals were incorporated as rhetorical features in the pamphlet. Why were these rhetorical features used?

to encourage rebellion and promote independence