ELA 10 - Unit Test Review

Which ideas from the excerpt would be most appropriate to include in a summary? Select TWO options. Read the excerpt from a speech to the school board about the art department. Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human. So many things try to push their way into being more important. We need to refocus ourselves and reevaluate our priorities. We should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer. Everyone thinks that art class is just fun and games. We always think that we need to prioritize everything else first. But it is everything else that will suffer when we lack art and beauty in our lives. - A) "Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human." B) "We should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer." C) "We need to refocus ourselves and reevaluate our priorities." D) "Everyone thinks that art class is just fun and games." E) "But it is everything else that will suffer when we lack art and beauty in our lives."

A) "Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human." - and - B) "We should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer."

Which statement from the passage best summarizes the central idea in this excerpt? Read the excerpt from "A Latina Judge's Voice" by Hon. Sonia Sotomayor. Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case. I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues, including Brown. However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Others simply do not care. Hence, one must accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. - A) "We should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group." B) "Wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination." C) "Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case." D) "Others simply do not care."

A) "We should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group."

How are prefixes and suffixes alike? Select TWO options. - A) Both are a type of affix. B) Both are the root of a word. C) Both can change a word's meaning. D) Both can be added to the end of a word. E) Both can be added to the beginning of a word.

A) Both are a type of affix. - and - C) Both can change a word's meaning.

How does the speaker's use of Spanish names for food most affect the tone and meaning of this excerpt? Read the excerpt from Justice Sotomayor's speech "A Latina Judge's Voice." For me, a very special part of my being Latina is the mucho platos de arroz, gandules y pernir—rice, beans and pork—that I have eaten at countless family holidays and special events. My Latina identity also includes, because of my particularly adventurous taste buds, morcilla, pig intestines; patitas de cerdo con garbanzo, pigs' feet with beans; and Ia lengua y orejas de cuchifrito, pigs' tongue and ears. I bet the Mexican-Americans in this room are thinking that Puerto Ricans have unusual food tastes. Some of us, like me, do. - A) It shows her strong connection to her heritage. B) It demonstrates how unusual Puerto Rican food is. C) It exemplifies a frustration with the United States. D) It deliberately excludes non-Spanish speakers.

A) It shows her strong connection to her heritage.

Which homophones correctly complete the sentence? Read the definitions. shear = v., to cut sheer = adj., thin soar = v., to fly at a great height sore = adj., feeling pain If you look through the _____ curtains, you can watch the birds _____ over the ocean. - A) sheer, soar B) shear, sore C) shear, soar D) sheer, sore

A) sheer, soar

What is the purpose of Sotomayor's use of the word wise? Read the excerpt from "A Latina Judge's Voice" by Hon. Sonia Sotomayor. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. - A) to emphasize the value of a Latina woman's experience B) to add entertainment value to the speech for the audience C) to distract the audience from the reality of the courtroom D) to demonstrate that an effective judge needs an education

A) to emphasize the value of a Latina woman's experience

Which word is spelled correctly? Read the definitions. bio = life anthrop = human micro- = small meteoro = high in the air -logy = study of - A) anthrology B) biology C) microbiolgy D) meteorlogy E) education

B) biology

Which words complete the sentence correctly? In recent years, engineers have invented a __________ capable of __________ offensive language from live television feeds. \\//\\// Read the definition. censor cen·sor [Latin censor, the Roman magistrate tasked with registering Roman citizens] noun 1. a person who supervises conduct and morals verb 1. to examine something in order to suppress it 2. to delete anything considered objectionable sensor sen·sor [Latin sentire, "to perceive"] noun 1. a device that responds to a physical stimulus and transmits an impulse in response - censor, sensoring B) sensor, censoring censor, censoring sensor, sensoring

B) sensor, censoring

Which sentence from Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech is the best example of hyperbole? - A) "I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in the shadow of this wall, a message of triumph." B) "The sign read simply: 'The Marshall Plan is helping here to strengthen the free world.'" C) "Throughout the Pacific, free markets are working miracle after miracle of economic growth." D) "In Europe, only one nation and those it controls refuse to join the community of freedom."

C) "Throughout the Pacific, free markets are working miracle after miracle of economic growth."

Which statement best describes Reagan's main message for his audience in this excerpt? Read the passage from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech. Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance. . . . From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on earth. . . . In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you." But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind—too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor. - A) The Berlin Wall is a reminder of the past and of the war. B) The United States is more powerful than the Soviet Union. C) Democracy leads to greater prosperity than communism does. D) Berlin is a thriving city that can boast of many accomplishments.

C) Democracy leads to greater prosperity than communism does.

Which statement best explains the use of rhetoric in this paragraph? Read the excerpt from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech. Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance. - A) Reagan uses repetition to focus attention on history. B) Reagan uses hasty generalizations to encourage hope. C) Reagan uses parallelism to compare the past to the present. D) Reagan uses hyperbole to emphasize changes that have taken place.

C) Reagan uses parallelism to compare the past to the present.

Which type of appeal is used in this part of the speech? Read the excerpt from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech. While we pursue these arms reductions, I pledge to you that we will maintain the capacity to deter Soviet aggression at any level at which it might occur. And in cooperation with many of our allies, the United States is pursuing the Strategic Defense Initiative—research to base deterrence not on the threat of offensive retaliation, but on defenses that truly defend; on systems, in short, that will not target populations, but shield them. By these means we seek to increase the safety of Europe and all the world. - A) an emotional appeal B) an ethical appeal C) an expert appeal D) a logical appeal

D) a logical appeal