english Unit test of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Which sentence from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 7?

B. "It was a head-doctor at the penitentiary said what I had done was kill my daddy but I known that for a lie."

The poem is addressed directly to .

A. the speaker's college instructor

Which of the following statements BEST explains what aspirational rhetoric actually is?

Aspirational rhetoric was born out of America's self-imposed, postwar position as the protector of freedom and democracy.

Which phrase most likely expresses the author's stance in relation to her characters?

B. Ironic detachment

How does the conversation that takes place with the proprietor of The Tower most likely contribute to the story?

B. The grandmother's worldview is given exposition and validation by at least one other person.

Which of the following selections best identifies an important theme of the poem?

C. The relationship between blacks and whites is complicated and often difficult.

Which of the following phrases provides context that best explains the meaning of intangible as identified in Part A? (brown vs. the board of education)

B. "incapable of objective measurement"

Which passage from the text most strongly supports the correct answer to the previous question?

B. "try not to forget / someone once lathered their bodies, once patted them / dry with a fluffy towel after a bath"

Which of the following sentences best summarizes the speaker's reason for choosing "a few years in the second half of the Twentieth Century" as the time he would want to live if given the choice?

B. During this period, King says he could see God at work in people's lives in the way they were rising up and proclaiming a desire for freedom and justice.

Which passage best supports the correct answer to Question 3?

D. "I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow."

Which sentence from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 5?

D. Finally she found herself saying, "Jesus. Jesus," meaning, Jesus will help you, but the way she was saying it, it sounded as if she might be cursing.

Which of these inferences is best supported by your knowledge of the text?

B. African Americans believed their efforts in the war would positively impact race relations at home.

What is most closely the central idea of the passage below (paragraph 127)?

A. The grandmother is so overcome by fear she cannot maintain control of her voice.

Which sentence from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 5? Answer choices for the above question

D. "'And we've had the plane protected and guarded all night.'"

Which of the following options best reflects Willy's feelings about his son in this excerpt?

C. Willy is frustrated that his son, who he cares about deeply, is not living up to the type of success or lifestyle that Willy values.

Which of these sentences from the text most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 3? Answer choices for the above question

B. "No person shall withhold, deny, or attempt to withhold or deny, or deprive or attempt to deprive, any person of any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202."

Which sentence from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 7?

B. "Progress in desegregating schools was very slow and most schools remained segregated until African American communities took direct action."

Which statement about the narrator is best supported by text evidence?

B. The narrator is so frustrated with his naive planning that he is willing to do whatever it takes to get to his next destination as quickly as possible.

How does the author mostly build a feeling of foreboding?

B. With specific and striking detail

What is most closely the definition of process as it is used in the passage below (paragraph 22)? We are choosing these companies because they haven't been fair in their hiring policies; and we are choosing them because they can begin the process of saying they are going to support the needs and the rights of these men who are on strike. And then they can move downtown and tell Mayor Loeb to do what is right.

B. noun | a series of steps followed in order to achieve a specific goal

The poem "Theme for English B" is mainly told in the tense, from a point of view.

B. present; first-person

The following passage (lines 5-9) adds to the development of the text mainly by showing .

B. the significant impact of the teacher's mistake through the use of visceral, violent imagery

Which passage from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 7?

C. "I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land."

According to the text, what type of lodging is exempt from the consequences of discrimination and does not fall under the category of a "public accommodation?"

C. A residence that doesn't rent out more than five rooms to guests

Which of the following answers best explains postwar optimism and pessimism?

C. Many citizens felt empowered after winning the war while others were disillusioned and traumatized by the horrors of war and the continued racial inequality in America.

Which lines from the excerpt most strongly support the answer to Question 3?

D. All of the above

Which line from the poem best supports the theme identified in Question 3?

D. All of the above.

Which of the following statements most closely summarizes a theme of the poem?

D. Even though one may have positive intentions, a lack of sensitivity to cultural differences can lead to painful incidents for those whose identities lie outside of the majority.

The following passage (paragraph 20) mainly shows that . Now the other thing we'll have to do is this. Always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal. Now, we are poor people. Individually, we are poor when you compare us with white society in America. We are poor. Never stop and forget, that collectively, that means all of us together, collectively, we are richer than all the nations in the world, with the exception of nine. Did you ever think about that? After you leave the United States, Soviet Russia, Great Britain, West Germany, France, and I could name the others, the American Negro collectively is richer than most nations of the world. We have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States, and more than the national budget of Canada. Did you know that? That's power right there, if we know how to pool it. Answer choices for the above question

D. as a group, African Americans have significant monetary power which can be exercised by using economic boycotts as a means of protest

What is most closely the meaning of the word eradicate as it appears in the passage below (paragraph 5)?

to completely wipe out

Which of these inferences is best supported by the passage below (lines 17-22)? And when all those necks start to crane, try not to forget someone once lathered their bodies, once patted them dry with a fluffy towel after a bath, set out their clothes for the first day of school. Think of their pencil cases from third grade, full of sharp pencils, a pink pearl eraser. Answer choices for the above question

A. The speaker is able to ease her discomfort by remembering that the students around her were once little kids who needed somebody else to take care of them.

What is most likely the reason the speaker included the following passage (paragraph 12) in his speech? The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers. Now we've got to keep attention on that. That's always the problem with a little violence. You know what happened the other day, and the press dealt only with the window breaking?

A. To show that violence causes a detrimental distraction from the issue at hand.

The following passage (line 9) mainly shows that . WILLY: How can he find himself on a farm? Is that a life? A farmhand? In the beginning, when he was young, I thought, well, a young man, it's good for him to tramp around, take a lot of different jobs. But it's more than ten years now and he has yet to make thirty-five dollars a week! Answer choices for the above question

A. Willy cares deeply about money and prestige

Which of these inferences is best supported by the passage below (SEC.203)? "No person shall (a) withhold, deny, or attempt to withhold or deny, or deprive or attempt to deprive, any person of any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202, or (b) intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person with the purpose of interfering with any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202, or (c) punish or attempt to punish any person for exercising or attempting to exercise any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202." Answer choices for the above question

D. Racial tensions were high in 1964, so the act had to make it clear that intimidating, threatening or punishing people for exercising their rights to public commerce was illegal.

Which of the following most closely expresses the point of view from which the story is told?

D. Third-person limited

What is most closely the meaning of rigmarole as it is used in the passage below (paragraph 1)? I wrote back and said I'd be satisfied with any old freighter so long as I could take a few long Pacific trips and come back with enough money to support myself in my aunt's house while I finished my book. He said he had a shack in Mill City and I would have all the time in the world to write there while we went through the rigmarole of getting the ship. He was living with a girl called Lee Ann; he said she was a marvelous cook and everything would jump. Answer choices for the above question

D. | noun | a complicated or bureaucratic procedure

Which definition best fits the way the word intangible is used in paragraph 4? (brown vs. the board of education)

unable to be touched or grasped; not having physical presence

Which of these statements best explains the following passage (EC.201.4d)? "Discrimination or segregation by an establishment is supported by State action within the meaning of this title if such discrimination or segregation (1) is carried on under color of any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation; or (2) is carried on under color of any custom or usage required or enforced by officials of the State or political subdivision thereof; or (3) is required by action of the State or political subdivision thereof."

A. The State or political subdivision will properly punish the establishments that break the discrimination or segregation law.

What is most closely the central idea of the passage below (paragraph 36)? Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. Answer choices for the above question

A. The speaker suggests that he may not to live to see the day that African Americans experience true equality but he feels confident that justice will prevail.

The narration in the passage below (paragraph 2) adds to the development of the text mainly by . "I'd been poring over maps of the United States in Paterson for months, even reading books about the pioneers and savoring names like Platte and Cimarron and so on, and on the roadmap was one long red line called Route 6 that led from the tip of Cape Cod clear to Ely, Nevada, and there dipped down to Los Angeles. I'll just stay on 6 all the way to Ely, I said to myself and confidently started. To get to 6 I had to go up to Bear Mountain. Filled with dreams of what I'd do in Chicago, in Denver, and then finally in San Fran, I took the Seventh Avenue subway to the end of the line at 242nd Street, and there took a trolley into Yonkers; in downtown Yonkers I transferred to an outgoing trolley and went to the city limits on the east bank of the Hudson River." Answer choices for the above question

A. conveying the narrator's enthusiasm and extensive preparation

Which of these quotations most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 5?

B. "The Double V Campaign emerged, as African American soldiers, fighting in segregated units, believed that if Americans could defeat Fascism abroad, then they could surely eradicate racism and Jim Crow rule at home."

Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 10)? In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that segregated education for whites and blacks was unconstitutional. Progress in desegregating schools was very slow and most schools remained segregated until African American communities took direct action. Inspired by the recent Supreme Court ruling, the NAACP began challenging the segregation of public facilities. On December 1, 1955, the secretary of the Montgomery, Alabama NAACP, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. Rosa Parks's action started a successful, year-long boycott of the city's segregated buses.

B. Government efforts alone were not enough to truly enact change.

Which of the following inferences about Willy is best supported by this passage (lines 21-24)? WILLY (with pity and resolve): I'll see him in the morning; I'll have a nice talk with him. I'll get him a job selling. He could be big in no time. My God! Remember how they used to follow him around in high school? When he smiled at one of them their faces lit up. When he walked down the street... (He loses himself in reminiscences.)LINDA (trying to bring him out of it): Willy, dear, I got a new kind of American-type cheese today. It's whipped.WILLY: Why do you get American when I like Swiss?LINDA: I just thought you'd like a change... Answer choices for the above question

B. It is difficult for Willy to accept change because he romanticizes the past.

What most likely can be inferred from the passage below (paragraph 116)? The Misfit sneered slightly. "Nobody had nothing I wanted," he said. "It was a head-doctor at the penitentiary said what I had done was kill my daddy but I known that for a lie. My daddy died in nineteen ought nineteen of the epidemic flu and I never had a thing to do with it. He was buried in the Mount Hopewell Baptist churchyard and you can go there and see for yourself."

C. The Misfit is mentally ill.

Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 34)? And they were telling me, now, it doesn't matter, now. It really doesn't matter what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started on the plane, there were six of us, the pilot said over the public address system, "We are sorry for the delay, but we have Dr. Martin Luther King on the plane. And to be sure that all of the bags were checked, and to be sure that nothing would be wrong on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully. And we've had the plane protected and guarded all night."

C. Threats had been made against the speaker necessitating extra precautions before the flight.

Which of the following statements best explains why the government forced thousands of Japanese Americans into internment camps following the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

Japan was responsible for the attack, and the American government began racially profiling Japanese Americans and imprisoning them out of fear.