English Exam

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d) Unity

A paragraph that contains some sentences that don't relate to the topic sentence or the other sentences (or are not the same "color" as the other sentences) is said to lack a)evidence. b)coherence. c)development. d)unity.

b) "Where we have made zero progress is in the area that most affects all of us in our daily routines. It's what the security industry calls 'access control,' and it has to do with securing all the spaces where large numbers of people congregate."

In which one of following are the quotation marks used correctly to format the phrase access control, which is quoted inside of another quotation? a)"Where we have made zero progress is in the area that most affects all of us in our daily routines. It's what the security industry calls access control, and it has to do with securing all the spaces where large numbers of people congregate." b)"Where we have made zero progress is in the area that most affects all of us in our daily routines. It's what the security industry calls 'access control,' and it has to do with securing all the spaces where large numbers of people congregate." c)'Where we have made zero progress is in the area that most affects all of us in our daily routines. It's what the security industry calls "access control," and it has to do with securing all the spaces where large numbers of people congregate.' d)"Where we have made zero progress is in the area that most affects all of us in our daily routines. It's what the security industry calls "access control," and it has to do with securing all the spaces where large numbers of people congregate."

("Biggest" 50)

In which one of the following is the parenthetical documentation correct when one is citing page 50 of the article in the following source if one does not mention the article within the sentence? "The Biggest Hole in the Net." Newsweek 30 Dec. 2002: 48-51. Print. ("Hole" 50) (Newsweek 50) ("Biggest" 50) (Newsweek Staff 50)

(Reisner 78)

In which one of the following is the parenthetical documentation correct when one is citing page 78 of the book, CADILLAC DESERT, if one does not mention the name of the author, Reisner, within the sentence and if the book is the only source by Reisner that one is citing (i.e. basic parenthetical documentation)? (Cadillac Desert p. 78) (Reisner, p. 78) (Reisner, "Cadillac Desert" 78) (Reisner 78)

c)"The Shaper sang things that had never crossed his mind before: comfort, beauty, a wisdom softer, more permanent than Hrothgar's" (xxxxxxxxx).

In which one of the following is the parenthetical documentation formatted and punctuated correctly? (The x's are substituting for the material that would normally go there.) a)"The Shaper sang things that had never crossed his mind before: comfort, beauty, a wisdom softer, more permanent than Hrothgar's." (xxxxxxxxx) b)"The Shaper sang things that had never crossed his mind before: comfort, beauty, a wisdom softer, more permanent than Hrothgar's"(xxxxxxxxx). c)"The Shaper sang things that had never crossed his mind before: comfort, beauty, a wisdom softer, more permanent than Hrothgar's" (xxxxxxxxx). d)"The Shaper sang things that had never crossed his mind before: comfort, beauty, a wisdom softer, more permanent than Hrothgar's(xxxxxxxxx)."

b)Rhetorical Strategies in "The Biggest Hole in the Net"

The title of your essay contains within it the title of the article THE BIGGEST HOLE IN THE NET? Which one of the following correctly formats your essay's title? a)Rhetorical Strategies in The Biggest Hole in the Net b)Rhetorical Strategies in "The Biggest Hole in the Net" c)Rhetorical Strategies in The Biggest Hole in the Net d)"Rhetorical Strategies in 'The Biggest Hole in the Net'"

b. Simile

What type of figurative language appears in the following sentence (from a student's essay): "Trying to keep the secret of Dad's surgery was like trying to hold water in our cupped hands"? a)personification b)simile c)metaphor d)hyperbole

b) hyperbole

What type of figurative language appears in the following verse about Mark Antony, a Roman politician and general: "[Antony's] legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm / Crested the world." a)personification b)hyperbole c)simile d)metaphor

B. Personification

What type of figurative language appears in the following verse: "Fashion, though folly's child, and guide of fools, / Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules"? a)hyperbole b)personification c)simile d)metaphor

c. Metaphor

What type of figurative language appears in the following verse: Describing his wife, the speaker says, "You were a camera / Recording reflections you could not fathom"? a)personification b)hyperbole c)metaphor d)simile

b) "But Shakespeare makes clear to us in several ways that the love between the Athenian couples is not rooted in actuality. . . . The love entanglements occur during a night full of dreams and enchantment, of which only an imprecise picture afterward remains in the memory of those concerned."

Which one of the following correctly indicates deletions to the passage below? But Shakespeare makes clear to us in several ways that the love between the Athenian couples is not rooted in actuality. Puck's magic juice, operating as a supernatural medium, is of course only one of the means by which Shakespeare places the relationships of the four Athenian lovers outside of reality. The love entanglements occur during a night full of dreams and enchantment, of which only an imprecise picture afterward remains in the memory of those concerned. a)"But Shakespeare makes clear to us in several ways that the love between the Athenian couples is not rooted in actuality . . . only an imprecise picture afterward remains in the memory of those concerned." b)"But Shakespeare makes clear to us in several ways that the love between the Athenian couples is not rooted in actuality. . . . The love entanglements occur during a night full of dreams and enchantment, of which only an imprecise picture afterward remains in the memory of those concerned." c)"But Shakespeare makes clear to us in several ways that the love between the Athenian couples is not . . . an imprecise picture afterward remains in the memory of those concerned." d)"But Shakespeare makes clear to us in several ways that the love between the Athenian couples is not rooted in actuality . . . The love entanglements occur during a night full of dreams and enchantment, of which only an imprecise picture afterward remains in the memory of those concerned."

a)"Puck's magic juice . . . is of course only one of the means by which Shakespeare places the relationships of the four Athenian lovers outside of reality."

Which one of the following correctly indicates deletions to the passage below? (The deleted passages are boldfaced.) Puck's magic juice, operating as a supernatural medium, is of course only one of the means by which Shakespeare places the relationships of the four Athenian lovers outside of reality. a)"Puck's magic juice . . . is of course only one of the means by which Shakespeare places the relationships of the four Athenian lovers outside of reality." b)"Puck's magic juice" "is of course only one of the means by which Shakespeare places the relationships of the four Athenian lovers outside of reality." c)"Puck's magic juice is of course . . . only one of the means by which Shakespeare places the relationships of the four Athenian lovers outside of reality." d)"Puck's magic juice . . . . is of course only one of the means by which Shakespeare places the relationships of the four Athenian lovers outside of reality."

a) After a "night full of dreams and enchantment" the four lovers only dimly remember what occurred.

Which one of the following correctly indicates deletions to the passage below? (The quoted passage is boldfaced.) But Shakespeare makes clear to us in several ways that the love between the Athenian couples is not rooted in actuality. Puck's magic juice, operating as a supernatural medium, is of course only one of the means by which Shakespeare places the relationships of the four Athenian lovers outside of reality. The love entanglements occur during a night full of dreams and enchantment, of which only an imprecise picture afterward remains in the memory of those concerned. a)After a "night full of dreams and enchantment" the four lovers only dimly remember what occurred. b)After a "night full of dreams and enchantment. . . " the four lovers only dimly remember what occurred. c)After a ". . . night full of dreams and enchantment. . . " the four lovers only dimly remember what occurred. d)After a ". . . night full of dreams and enchantment" the four lovers only dimly remember what occurred.

d)"If [having to frequently use a national identity card] sounds wildly inconvenient or expensive, think about how it might sound the morning after a subway bombing, or the day someone sets off a bomb inside Union Station in Washington, at the Orange Bowl or at the Mall of America."

Which one of the following correctly indicates the substitution that YOU made to the following passage? If that sounds wildly inconvenient or expensive, think about how it might sound the morning after a subway bombing, or the day someone sets off a bomb inside Union Station in Washington, at the Orange Bowl or at the Mall of America. a)"If having to frequently use a national identity card sounds wildly inconvenient or expensive, think about how it might sound the morning after a subway bombing, or the day someone sets off a bomb inside Union Station in Washington, at the Orange Bowl or at the Mall of America." b)"If having to frequently use a national identity card sounds wildly inconvenient or expensive, think about how it might sound the morning after a subway bombing, or the day someone sets off a bomb inside Union Station in Washington, at the Orange Bowl or at the Mall of America." c)"If (having to frequently use a national identity card) sounds wildly inconvenient or expensive, think about how it might sound the morning after a subway bombing, or the day someone sets off a bomb inside Union Station in Washington, at the Orange Bowl or at the Mall of America." d)"If [having to frequently use a national identity card] sounds wildly inconvenient or expensive, think about how it might sound the morning after a subway bombing, or the day someone sets off a bomb inside Union Station in Washington, at the Orange Bowl or at the Mall of America."

a) Jonathan Kozol observes that despite Brown vs. the Board of Education many public schools have become segregated. For example, "In Los Angeles there is a school that bears the name of Dr. King that is 99 percent black and Hispanic, and another in Milwaukee in which black and Hispanic children also make up 99 percent of the enrollment."

Which one of the following correctly integrates the quotation in a way that is grammatically and logically correct? a)Jonathan Kozol observes that despite Brown vs. the Board of Education many public schools have become segregated. For example, "In Los Angeles there is a school that bears the name of Dr. King that is 99 percent black and Hispanic, and another in Milwaukee in which black and Hispanic children also make up 99 percent of the enrollment." b)Jonathan Kozol observes that despite Brown vs. the Board of Education many public schools have become segregated, but "In Los Angeles there is a school that bears the name of Dr. King that is 99 percent black and Hispanic, and another in Milwaukee in which black and Hispanic children also make up 99 percent of the enrollment." c)Jonathan Kozol observes that despite Brown vs. the Board of Education many public schools have become segregated: "In Los Angeles there is a school that bears the name of Dr. King that is 99 percent black and Hispanic, and another in Milwaukee in which black and Hispanic children also make up 99 percent of the enrollment." d)Jonathan Kozol observes that despite Brown vs. the Board of Education many public schools have become segregated, "In Los Angeles there is a school that bears the name of Dr. King that is 99 percent black and Hispanic, and another in Milwaukee in which black and Hispanic children also make up 99 percent of the enrollment."

c) Further arguing that Tom Wingfield, rather than his mother and sister, is the central character in THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Thomas King writes, "If Amanda looms large, she looms large in Tom's mind, not in her own right--though of course the image that finally dominates Tom's mind is that of Laura and the glass menagerie."

Which one of the following integrates the quoted passage in a way that is grammatically and logically correct? a)Further arguing that Tom Wingfield, rather than his mother and sister, is the central character in THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Thomas King writes "If Amanda looms large, she looms large in Tom's mind, not in her own right--though of course the image that finally dominates Tom's mind is that of Laura and the glass menagerie." b)Further arguing that Tom Wingfield, rather than his mother and sister, is the central character in THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Thomas King writes, "large in Tom's mind, not in her own right--though of course the image that finally dominates Tom's mind is that of Laura and the glass menagerie." c)Further arguing that Tom Wingfield, rather than his mother and sister, is the central character in THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Thomas King writes, "If Amanda looms large, she looms large in Tom's mind, not in her own right--though of course the image that finally dominates Tom's mind is that of Laura and the glass menagerie." d)Further arguing that Tom Wingfield, rather than his mother and sister, is the central character in THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Thomas King writes; "If Amanda looms large, she looms large in Tom's mind, not in her own right--though of course the image that finally dominates Tom's mind is that of Laura and the glass menagerie."

d) Thomas King argues that Tennessee Williams communicates Tom Wingfield's centrality to THE GLASS MENAGERIE through when he appears in the play: "Tom opens the play and he closes it; he also opens the second act and two further scenes in the first act--his is the first word and the last."

Which one of the following integrates the quoted passage in a way that is grammatically and logically correct? a)Thomas King argues that Tennessee Williams communicates Tom Wingfield's centrality to THE GLASS MENAGERIE through when he appears in the play, "Tom opens the play and he closes it; he also opens the second act and two further scenes in the first act--his is the first word and the last." b)Thomas King argues that Tennessee Williams communicates Tom Wingfield's centrality to THE GLASS MENAGERIE through when he appears in the play. "Tom opens the play and he closes it; he also opens the second act and two further scenes in the first act--his is the first word and the last." c)Thomas King argues that Tennessee Williams communicates Tom Wingfield's centrality to THE GLASS MENAGERIE through when he appears in the play "Tom opens the play and he closes it; he also opens the second act and two further scenes in the first act--his is the first word and the last." d)Thomas King argues that Tennessee Williams communicates Tom Wingfield's centrality to THE GLASS MENAGERIE through when he appears in the play: "Tom opens the play and he closes it; he also opens the second act and two further scenes in the first act--his is the first word and the last."

b)Thomas King argues that the central character in THE GLASS MENAGERIE is Tom Wingfield because Tom is merely remembering the other character

Which one of the following integrates the quoted passage in a way that is grammatically and logically correct? a)Thomas King argues that the central character in THE GLASS MENAGERIE is Tom Wingfield because Tom is merely remembering the other characters; "are merely aspects of Tom's consciousness." b)Thomas King argues that the central character in THE GLASS MENAGERIE is Tom Wingfield because Tom is merely remembering the other characters, who "are merely aspects of Tom's consciousness." c)Thomas King argues that the central character in THE GLASS MENAGERIE is Tom Wingfield because Tom is merely remembering the other characters, who, "are merely aspects of Tom's consciousness." d)Thomas King argues that the central character in THE GLASS MENAGERIE is Tom Wingfield because Tom is merely remembering the other characters, who: "are merely aspects of Tom's consciousness."

b) The first line of the citation is indented half an inch (one tab).

Which one of the following is NOT true of the page that lists the publication information of the sources one has used in a research paper? a)The title of the page is Works Cited. b)The first line of the citation is indented half an inch (one tab). c)Citations are double spaced. d)Citations are alphabetized.

a) newspaper

Which one of the following is a periodical? a)newspaper b)personal Internet page c)pamphlet d)encyclopedia

The passage does not appear in quotation marks.

Which one of the following statements is true for formatting a long quotation? The whole passage is indented an inch from the right margin. The passage is single-spaced. The passage must be longer than three sentences long. The passage does not appear in quotation marks.

c)NEXT, PLEASE (a short poem)

Which one of the following titles belongs in quotation marks? a)STUDIES IN SHORT FICTION (a journal) b)THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE (newspaper) c)NEXT, PLEASE (a short poem) d)NATURE WARS (a book of essays)

b)Pucker Up: The Role of Shakespeare's Puck and the Fantasy Setting

Which one of the following titles is correctly capitalized? a)Pucker up: The role of Shakespeare's Puck and the fantasy setting b)Pucker Up: The Role of Shakespeare's Puck and the Fantasy Setting c)PUCKER UP: THE ROLE OF SHAKESPEARE'S FAIRIES AND THE FANTASY SETTING d)Pucker Up: The Role Of Shakespeare's Puck And The Fantasy Setting

d)TIME (a magazine)

Which one of the following titles should be italicized? a)THE LOTTERY (a short story) b)METAPHORS (a poem nine lines long) c)FIGHTING POVERTY, FIGHTING AIDS (an article) d)TIME (a magazine)

(Friedman, "Did You Hear" E8)

You are citing two articles—DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE BANKERS? and ONE COUNTRY, TWO REVOLUTIONS—by the same author, Thomas Friedman. In which one of the following is the parenthetical documentation correct when you cite page E8 of the first source listed above and you do not mention the author's name in the sentence? (Friedman, Bankers, p. E8) (Friedman One Country E8) (Friedman #1 E8) (Friedman, "Did You Hear" E8)


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