Unit Test Review

A split infinitive occurs when a word or group of words is inserted __________ the two parts of an infinitive.

Between

Which sentance must be revised to eliminate a split infinitive? A. Jacob went to band practice and came home with a sunburn. B. Lucas makes it a habit to only watch the stunts the skateboarders did. C. Emily loves to noisily and cheerfully make breakfast for her family each day. D. Samuel needs to regularly organize the papers and folders in his school bag.

C. Emily loves to noisily and cheerfully make breakfast for her family each day.

Read the excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibily Close. I stood on all of that and it worked for a second. But then I had the tips of my fingers on the vase and the tragedies started to wobble, and the tuxedo was incredibly distracting, and the next thing was that everything was on the floor, including me, and including the vase, which had shattered. "I didn't do it!" I hollered, but they didn't even hear me, because they were playing music too loud and cracking up too much. How does the narration shape Oskar's characterization in this excerpt? A. It shows his youth and inexperience. B. It suggests his flair for the dramatic. C. It indicates he is reckless and rowdy. D. It hints at his pent-up anger and hostility.

A. It shows his youth and inexperience.

Read the following excerpt from Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Death by Black Hole." That's the gory moment when your body snaos into two segments, breaking apart at your midsection. Upon falling further, the difference in gravity continues to grow, and each of your two body segments snaps into two segments. Shorty thereafter, those segments each snap into two segments of their own, and so forth, and so forth, bifurcating your body into an ever-increasing number of parts: 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,etc. Read the following excerpt from Billy Collins's "Man Listening to Disc." The music is loud yet so confidential I cannot help feeling even more like the center of the universe than usual as I walk along to a rapid little version of "The Way You Look Tonight," What do these two excerpts reveal about the difference in ideas presentd by Tyson and Collins?

A. Tyson stresses humanity's relative insignificance in the universe, while Collins stresses man's percived importance.

Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. Up and down Acadamy Boulevard, along South Navada, Circle Drive, and Woodman Road, teenagers like Elisa run the fast food restaurants of Colorado Springs. Fast food kitchens often seem like a scene from Bugsy Malone, a film in which all the actors are children pretending to be adults. No other industry in the United States has a workforce so dominated by adolescents. How does Schlosser effectively build his argument in his excerpt? A. He uses anacdotal evidence to share a personal experience of eating fast food. B. He uses analogical evidence to help the reader visualize his point about the workers. C. He uses testimonial evidence to explain the health risks of eating fast food. D. He uses statistical evidence to prove that adults make better employees than teens.

B. He uses analogical evidence to help the reader visualize his point about the workers.

Which of the following excerpts from Fast Food Nation best provides evidence that fast food restaurants are designed for using unskilled labor? A. Her family's modest townhouse sits beside a busy highway on the south side of Colorado Springs, in a largely poor and working-class neighorhood. B. The ovens at Pizza Hut and at Domino's also use conveyer belts to ensure standardized cooking times. C. The restaurant opens for business at seven o'clock, and for the next hour or so, Elisa and the manager hold down the fort, handling all the orders. D. Throughput is all about increasing the speed of assembly, about doing things faster in order to make more.

B. The ovens at Pizza Hut and at Domino's also use conveyer belts to ensure standardized cooking times.

Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. English is now the second language of at least one-sixth of the nation's restaurant workers, and about one-third of that group speaks no English at all. The proportion of fast food workers who cannot speak English is even higher. Which type of evidence does the author use in this excerpt? A. anacdotal B. statistical C. testimonial D. analogical

B. statistical

When a writer does not know who performed the action in a sentence, the writer can still write a grammatically correct sentence by A. using the active voice. B. using the passive voice. C. ending the sentance with an infinitive. D. ending the sentance with a preposition.

B. using the passive voice.

Read the excerpt from Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Death by Black Hole." If you stumble upon a black hole and found yourself falling feet-first toward its center, then as you got closer, the black hole's force of gravity would astronomically. Curiously, you would not feel this force at all because, like anything in free fall, you are weightless. What you do feel, however, is something far more sinister. While you fall, the black hole's force of gravity at your two feet, they being closer to the black hole's center, accelerates them faster than does the weaker force of gravity at your head. Read the excerpt from Billy Collins's "Man Listening to Disc." the only true point of view, is full of hope that he, the hub of the cosmos with his hair blown sideways, will eventually make it all the way downtown. Which choice best describes the differing views Tyson and Collins present of humanity? A. Tyson describes a sinister universe where men are eaten by black holes, while Collins decribes a cosmos full of hope for a better future. B. Tyson writes about a scientific fact of life, while Collins writes about an emotionally charged event in his life. C. Tyson presents human as powerless against the forces of nature, while Collins presents an individual creating his own destiny. D. Tyson suggests that people have no control of their lives in a dangerous world, while Collins reminds people to take control and be focused.

C. Tyson presents human as powerless against the forces of nature, while Collins presents an individual creating his own destiny.

Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I knew I could never let Mom hear the messages, because protecting her is one of my most important raisons d'etre, so what I did was I took Dad's emergency money from on top of his dresser, and I went to the Radio Shack on Amsterdam. It was on a TV there that I saw that the first building had fallen. I bought the exact same phone and ran home and recorded our greeting from the first phone into it. I wrapped up the old phone in the scarf that Grandma was never able to finish because of my privacy, and I put that in a grocery bag, and I put that in a box, and I put that in another box, and I put that under a bunch of stuff in my closet, like my jewelry workbench and albums of foreign currencies. Which word best describes the tone of this excerpt? A. deceitful B. sentimental C. methodical D. respectful

C. methodical

Read the excerpt from Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Death by Black Hole." That's the gory moment when your body snaos into two segments, breaking apart at your midsection. Upon falling further, the difference in gravity continues to grow, and each of your two body segments snaps into two segments. Shorty thereafter, those segments each snap into two segments of their own, and so forth, and so forth, bifurcating your body into an ever-increasing number of parts: 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,etc. After you've been ripped to sheds of organic molecules, the molecules themsleves begin to feel the continueally growing tital forces. Eventually, they too snap apart, creating a stream of their constituent atoms. And then, of course, the atoms themselves snap apart, leaving an unrecognizable parade of particles that, minutes earlier, had been you. Which statement best decribes how the author conveys the message that humans are no match for the power of a black hole? A. He explains scientific theories to the reader and provides the definitions for difficult terms and words. B. He uses logic and reason to lay out each individual step of human combustion as it is absorbed by the tital force. C. He provides helpful comparisons of black holes with other cosmic phenomena that the reader may already know. D. He personalizes the experience for the reader and uses vivid imagery to create a clear mental picture.

D. He personalizes the experience for the reader and uses vivid imagery to create a clear mental picture.

Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. She said, "Ron is a great person," which was an answer to a question I didn't ask. So I asked again. "True or false: you are in love with Ron." She put her hand with the ring on it in her hair and said, "Oskar, Ron is my friend." Which of these statements best describes the ambiguity in this excerpt? A. It is unclear whether Oskar's mom is bothered by his questions. B. It is unclear whether the conversation is one they have had before. C. It is unclear whether or not Oskar's mom enjoys Ron's company. D. It is unclear whether the ring is from Ron or from Oskar's dad.

D. It is unclear whether the ring is from Ron or from Oskar's dad.

A writer sometimes chooses to end a sentence with a preposition because doing so makes the sentance more________.

clear