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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following words best replaces extensive as it is used in the passage below?
When a plane went down they mounted extensive searches and almost always they found the plane within a day or two.
speedy
thorough
immediate
external
- 2. Multiple Choice
The repetition of the phrase “they would” in paragraphs 1-3 mainly suggests that Brian __________.
They would look for him, look for the plane. His father and mother would be frantic. They would tear the world apart to find him. Brian had seen searches on the news, seen movies about lost planes. When a plane went down they mounted extensive searches and almost always they found the plane within a day or two. Pilots all filed flight plans—a detailed plan for where and when they were going to fly, with all the courses explained. They would come, they would look for him. The searchers would get government planes and cover both sides of the flight plan filed by the pilot and search until they found him.
Maybe even today. They might come today. This was the second day after the crash. No. Brian frowned. Was it the first day or the second day? They had gone down in the afternoon and he had spent the whole night out cold. So this was the first real day. But they could still come today. They would have started the search immediately when Brian's plane did not arrive.
Yeah, they would probably come today.
is excited for the adventures yet to come
doesn’t realize he’s in danger
is struggling to remain hopeful while scared
has a deep knowledge of rescue missions in the wild
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of the following inferences about Brian is most strongly supported by paragraph 5?
Which home? The father home or the mother home. He stopped the thinking. It didn’t matter. Either on to his dad or back to his mother. Either way he would probably be home by late night or early morning, home where he could sit down and eat a large, cheesy, juicy burger with tomatoes and double fries with ketchup and a thick chocolate shake.
Brian is a happy, normal young man.
Brian knows he will be back home before the day’s end.
Brian doesn’t think his mother and father have his best interests in mind.
Brian’s parents are either divorced or separated.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is most likely the author’s intent in paragraphs 12-13?
Nothing.
It kept coming back to that. He had nothing.
To transition from one idea to the next
To inform the reader that Brian is searching for supplies
To emphasize Brian’s increasing concern and loneliness
To highlight Brian’s ability to survive in the wild
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following conclusions about Brian’s state of mind is best supported by the excerpt from "Hatchet"?
Brian is more than capable of saving himself from the challenges ahead.
Though he tries to deny it, Brian is affected by his parents’ recent separation.
Brian finds comfort in daydreaming of his teachers, family, and social life.
Even as the time passes, Brian remains fully confident that he will be rescued.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which passage from the text best supports your answer to "Which of the following conclusions about Brian’s state of mind is bestsupported by the excerpt from "Hatchet"?"?
“Maybe I should try and figure out just how I stand.”
“They would look for him, look for the plane. His father and mother would be frantic.”
“The father home or the mother home. He stopped the thinking. It didn’t matter.”
“He reached into his pockets and took out everything he had and laid it on the grass in front of him.”
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of these inferences about Brian’s old teacher Mr. Perpich is best supported by the text?
He was an optimistic man who believed in his students.
He was a strict disciplinarian whom most students disliked.
He believed in always following the rules.
He was likely an experienced, resourceful camper himself.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which passage from the text best supports the answer to "Which of these inferences about Brian’s old teacher Mr. Perpich is best supported by the text?"
‘You are your most valuable asset. Don’t forget that. You are the best thing you have.’”
"All Perpich would say is that I have to get motivated.”
“I wish you were here, Perpich. I’m hungry and I’d trade everything I have for a hamburger.”
“Perpich would tell him to quit messing around.”
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which meaning of asset most closely matches its meaning in the following excerpt?
No, wait. One other thing. Those were all the things he had, but he also had himself. Perpich used to drum that into them—”You are your most valuable asset. Don’t forget that. You are the best thing you have.”
| noun | something owned by a person or company
| noun | a useful or valuable thing, person, or quality
| noun | equipment employed in military operations, such as planes or ships
| noun | the property of a deceased person
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements about the narrator of "Guts" is true?
He worked as a volunteer responding to emergency calls.
He has never seen anyone die.
He once had to take over flying a plane when the pilot died of a heart attack.
He doesn’t really want to be a writer.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What do the following lines from the excerpt mainly reveal about the narrator?
She gave me the location of the ranch and I took off. It should have taken me a full twenty minutes to get there because of the roughness of the gravel roads but I arrived in fourteen by driving like a maniac.
He enjoys driving at high speeds.
He does not care very much about his volunteer job.
As a friend, he is always responsible and timely.
He is very motivated to help people in emergency situations.
- 12. Multiple Choice
What is most likely the author’s reason for including this paragraph about Hatchet at the beginning of the excerpt on Guts?
Perhaps the single most catastrophic event in Brian’s life in Hatchet is when the pilot dies of a heart attack. This forces Brian to fly the plane and land—in little more than an “aimed” crash—in a lake, where he swims free and saves himself.
To provide background about a scene in his book that was inspired by what he’s about to describe
To remind the reader that he is a successful writer
To tell the reader about an event in his personal life that shaped him
To compare and contrast Hatchet with the other books he’s written
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best explains why the narrator of Guts continues to perform CPR on the dead man?
He hears the sound of the hospital’s helicopter outside.
He thinks he can feel a heartbeat in the man’s chest.
He cannot bear to give up hope.
He knows he wants to write about the man someday.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which statement best summarizes the central idea of Guts?
The author of Hatchet became a successful author only after working as a volunteer for a long time.
Sometimes it is not possible to save someone who is having a heart attack.
Authors need to find the time to write about their experiences.
A haunting event the author witnessed as a volunteer became the inspiration for a scene in Hatchet.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which sentence from the text most strongly supports the central idea of Guts?
“I saw at least a dozen heart attack victims in the first year.”
“I remembered him and his eyes and I put him next to Brian because he was, above all things, real, and I wanted the book to be real.”
“Because I had so much downtime, I added my name to a list of volunteers available to answer emergency ambulance calls.”
“I kept at the CPR because the woman gave me the Look and I could not give up hope.”
- 16. Multiple Choice
What is mainly the reason why the narrator remembers this man’s heart attack in Guts?
The man looks into the author’s eyes in a way no one ever had.
The man has very cold skin.
The man is dead when the author shows up to the scene.
The man’s face is very gray.
- 17. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best supports the answer to "What is mainly the reason why the narrator remembers this man’s heart attack?" ?
“But the smell of methane was very strong and the gray look was very bad and as I reached for him to put him on his back, he jolted as if hit by electricity, stiffened in the kitchen chair and fell sideways to the floor.”
“I kept working on him though I knew he was dead and I had seen him die, seen him move from his life into his death, and though I had seen death many times before, I had not seen it in this way. Not in the way his eyes looked into mine while the life left him.”
“Years later, when I came to write Hatchet and the scene where the pilot is dying, I remembered this man of all the men I saw dead from heart attacks and car wrecks and farm accidents.”
“‘Call the hospital and tell them to bring the chopper now,’ I said, and knelt to help him, but he was hit with another jolt that stiffened him and his eyes opened wide and the smell grew much stronger and I knew he was gone.”
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which meaning of confluence most closely matches its meaning in the following passage?
…My wife and I lived then in a small prairie town in the middle of farm country, near the confluence of two major highways.
noun | a crowd or throng of people
noun | a situation in which two things happen at the same time
noun | a flowing together of two or more rivers
noun | the place where two things meet
- 19. Multiple Choice
Which of the following inferences about the narrator of The Island of the Blue Dolphins is best supported by the first sentence in the excerpt?
There were no tracks after the rain, but I followed the trail to the pile of rocks where I had seen them before.
The narrator has not eaten in days.
The narrator has to rely on the tracks of that person or animal to find them.
The narrator’s knowledge of the area is helpful to her.
The narrator is mostly interested in the pile of rocks.
- 20. Multiple Choice
What do the following lines mainly reveal about the narrator of The Island of the Blue Dolphins?
“On the far side of the rocks I found the big gray dog. He had the broken arrow in his chest and he was lying with one of his legs under him.”
The narrator is just a passerby.
The narrator is worried that the dog will die.
The narrator wants a reward for finding the dog.
The narrator knows something about how the broken arrow ended up in the dog’s chest.
- 21. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best explains the narrator’s conflicted feelings in The Island of the Blue Dolphins?
She doesn’t want to use such a heavy spear.
She isn’t sure why the dog is so hungry.
She greatly misses her home.
She feels pity for a potential threat.
- 22. Multiple Choice
What is most likely the author’s intent in including the following details in paragraph 6 of The Island of the Blue Dolphins?
He did not move when I went up to him, nor could I see him breathing until I was very close. The head of the arrow was in his chest and the broken shaft was covered with blood. The thick fur around his neck was matted from the rain.
To keep the reader interested by adding graphic details
To create sympathy for the injured animal in the both narrator and the reader
To make the reader angry at the narrator for what she did
To make the reader unsure whether the dog is alive
- 23. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best explains why the narrator of The Island of the Blue Dolphins is unable to shoot the dog with the bow and arrow?
She does not know how to use a bow and arrow.
She is too far away from the dog and thinks she will miss.
Her conscience will not let her kill an injured animal.
She doesn’t think it’s worth wasting an arrow.
- 24. Multiple Choice
Which passage from the text best supports the answer to "Which of the following best explains why the narrator of The Island of the Blue Dolphins is unable to shoot the dog with the bow and arrow?"?
The spear was the better of the two weapons at this distance, but I could not use it as well as the other, so I climbed onto the rocks where I could see him if he ran.”
“I was used to animals playing dead until they suddenly turned on you or ran away.”
“I stood there for a long time looking down at him and then I got off the rocks.”
“The big dog lay there and did not move and this may be the reason. If he had gotten up I would have killed him.”
- 25. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements about the big gray dog from The Island of the Blue Dolphins is most likely true?
The big gray dog is generally distrustful of people
The big gray dog will eventually turn against the narrator and attack her.
The big gray dog was beaten by its former owner.
The big gray dog isn’t nearly as injured as it once seemed.
- 26. Multiple Choice
Which passage from the text best supports the answer to "Which of the following statements about the big gray dog is most likely true?"?
“That night I slept on the rock, for I was afraid of him, and at dawn as I went out I left the hole under the fence open so he could go.”
“Always before when I returned, I had hoped that he would be gone. But now as I crawled under the fence I did not feel the same.”
“He would not take the fish from me so I had to put it on the ground. Once I held out my hand to him, but at this he backed away and showed his teeth.”
“He was just getting to his feet, stretching himself and yawning.”
- 27. Multiple Choice
Which meaning of the word fit most closely matches its meaning in the following excerpt?
The spear was the better of the two weapons at this distance, but I could not use it as well as the other, so I climbed onto the rocks where I could see him if he ran. I placed my feet carefully. I had a second arrow ready should I need it. I fitted an arrow and pulled back the string, aiming at his head.
| verb | to conform to something
| verb | to prepare or adjust
| adjective | in good physical condition
| adjective | suitable for a particular purpose
- 28. Multiple Choice
The “Land of the Golden Mountain” in Dragonwings most likely refers to __________.
Ever since I can remember, I had wanted to know about the Land of the Golden Mountain, but my mother had never wanted to talk about it. All I knew was that a few months before I was born, my father had left our home in the Middle Kingdom, or China, as the white demons call it, and traveled over the sea to work in the demon land. There was plenty of money to be made among the demons, but it was also dangerous. My own grandfather had been lynched about thirty years before by a mob of white demons almost the moment he had set foot on their shores.
anywhere across an ocean
America
Japan
China
- 29. Multiple Choice
Which of the following details about the narrator’s father in Dragonwings is best supported by the excerpt?
The narrator’s father is oppressed in America.
The narrator’s father lives a busy and social life in the Land of the Golden Mountain.
The narrator’s father is a master kitemaker.
The narrator’s mother deeply loves the narrator’s father.
- 30. Multiple Choice
The narrator’s family in Dragonwings cannot go to the Land of the Golden Mountain mainly because __________.
the narrator’s father does not make enough money to support a family
the narrator’s father no longer loves his wife and wishes to escape her in America
the narrator’s family has extreme attachment to their homeland, where loyalty and family are the two most important things
wives are not allowed to accompany their husbands there because the “white demons” do not want the Chinese to stay forever
- 31. Multiple Choice
Which of the following quotations from the excerpt most strongly supports the answer to "The narrator’s family in Dragonwings cannot go to the Land of the Golden Mountain mainly because __________."?
“The result was that the wives stayed in the villages, seeing their husbands every five years or so if they were lucky though sometimes there were longer separations, as with Mother and Father.”
“But sometimes Mother’s patience wore thin. It usually happened when we walked over to the small side room in the Temple, where classes were also held.”
“For one thing, the white demons would not let wives join their husbands on the Golden Mountain because they did not want us settling there permanently”.
“To tell the truth, I knew as little about my father as I knew about the Land of the Golden Mountain.”
- 32. Multiple Choice
Which of the following meanings of staggered most closely matches its meaning in the following passage?
Feng immigrated to the U.S. from China sometime between 1894 and 1898, when he was in his early teens, and immediately set to work doing odd jobs at a Chinese mission in San Francisco. “He was staggered by America’s power and prosperity. He understood that industrialization made the country great, and felt that industrialization could do the same for China,” says historian Patti Gully, who has co-authored a book on the contributions of Chinese living outside their country to the development of aviation in China.
verb | slowed down or faltered
verb | shocked or astonished
verb | arranged over a period of time
erb | walked unsteadily, as if about to fall
- 33. Multiple Choice
What information does the following passage from The Father of Chinese Aviation mainly convey?
By 1911, as the New York Times reported on February 21: “[Feng] will leave here for his native land to-morrow, taking with him a biplane of the Curtiss type, in which he intends to make exhibition flights. It is believed that he will be the first aviator to rise from the ground in China…. The machine he is taking to China is of his own construction. The aviator is financed by six of his countrymen, residents of Oakland, who will accompany him on the trip. The first flights will be tried at Hongkong and Canton.”
Feng was leaving just in time: anti-Chinese sentiment was on the rise in the American West, and the Oregonian reported of the pilot’s latest flight: “Immigration officials and customs inspectors are today said to be gnashing their teeth. They find it hard enough to keep the Chinese out now, without having them dropping in on flying machines.”
Racist sentiments about immigration might have halted Feng’s work or caused him other trouble.
The Oregonian mostly ignored Feng’s amazing feat.
Feng’s aviation efforts were considered to be helping China instead of the U.S.
War was beginning to rumble in Europe and Asia, and Feng’s planes could be seen as weapon development.
- 34. Multiple Choice
Which selection from the previous passage most strongly supports the answer to "What information does the following passage mainly convey?" (The Father of Chinese Aviation)
“By 1911, as the New York Times reported on February 21: ‘[Feng] will leave here for his native land to-morrow, taking with him a biplane of the Curtiss type, in which he intends to make exhibition flights.’”
“‘It is believed that he will be the first aviator to rise from the ground in China…. The machine he is taking to China is of his own construction.’”
“‘The aviator is financed by six of his countrymen, residents of Oakland, who will accompany him on the trip. The first flights will be tried at Hongkong and Canton.’”
“‘Immigration officials and customs inspectors are today said to be gnashing their teeth. They find it hard enough to keep the Chinese out now, without having them dropping in on flying machines.’”
- 35. Multiple Choice
Which of the following inferences about the narrator of I Never Had it Made is best supported by the first paragraph of the excerpt?
I guess if I could choose one of the most important moments in my life, I would go back to 1947, in the Yankee Stadium in New York City. It was the opening day of the world series and I was for the first time playing in the series as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers team. It was a history-making day. It would be the first time that a black man would be allowed to participate in a world series. I had become the first black player in the major leagues.
The narrator regrets becoming a baseball player.
The narrator is aware of his importance as a cultural figure.
The narrator’s thinks his life was much better when he was younger.
The narrator feels that black players should form their own league.
- 36. Multiple Choice
What do the following lines from paragraph 4 of I Never Had it Made mainly reveal about the narrator’s views?
Black people supported me with total loyalty. They supported me morally: they came to sit in a hostile audience in unprecedented numbers to make the turnstiles hum as they never had before at ballparks all over the nation. Money is America’s God, and business people can dig black power if it coincides with green power, so these fans were important to the success of Mr. Rickey’s "Noble Experiment."
He doesn’t believe that most black people actually liked the sport of baseball.
He realizes that he was only able to keep playing because he made money for the team owners.
He doesn’t think that Mr. Rickey was a very honest person.
He believes that most Americans are corrupt.
- 37. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best explains the narrator’s feelings about Mr. Rickey’s intentions in I Never Had it Made?
He wonders if he’ll ever know Mr. Rickey’s true intentions.
He thinks that Mr. Rickey wanted him to play because he was dedicated to advancing the cause of civil rights.
He believes that Mr. Rickey wanted to sell the Brooklyn Dodgers to someone else.
He thinks Mr. Rickey was very brave, even if he was motivated by self-interest.
- 38. Multiple Choice
What is most likely the author’s intent in the preface of I Never Had it Made?
To share the events and people in his life that inspired him
To bring attention to ongoing discrimination in professional baseball
To make the case that more African American athletes should play baseball, instead of other sports
To make the reader wonder what will happen next in this story
- 39. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best identifies the narrator’s feelings about why his teammates ultimately accepted him? (I Never Had it Made)
He thinks they only accepted him because he made the team more likely to win.
He thinks some of them cared about him, and eventually saw him as a friend.
Both A and B
Neither A nor B
- 40. Multiple Choice
Which passage from the text best supports the answer to "Which of the following best identifies the narrator’s feelings about why his teammates ultimately accepted him?"? (I Never Had it Made)
“My fellow Dodgers were not decent out of self-interest alone.”
“Mr. Rickey stands out as the man who inspired me the most.”
“I had been forced to live with snubs and rebuffs and rejections.”
"Some of my own teammates refused to accept me because I was black.”
- 41. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements about racial divisions would the narrator most likely agree with? (I Never Had it Made)
There is no possible solution to America’s racial divisions.
The country’s racial problems are caused by the divide between the rich and poor.
Young people are generally less prejudiced than their parents and grandparents.
America in the late 1940s wasn’t ready for racial integration in professional baseball.
- 42. Multiple Choice
Which passage from the text best supports your answer to "Which of the following statements about racial divisions would the narrator most likely agree with?"? (I Never Had it Made)
“The very young seemed to have no hangup at all about my being black. They just wanted me to be good, to deliver, to win.”
“I know that every successful man is supposed to say that without his wife he could never have accomplished success. It is gospel in my case.”
“His peers and fellow baseball moguls exerted all kinds of influence to get him to change his mind. Some of the press condemned him as a fool and a demagogue. But he didn’t give in.”
“After the initial resistance to me had been crushed, my teammates started to give me tips in how to improve my game.”
- 43. Multiple Choice
Which meaning of the word condemned most closely matches its meaning in the following excerpt from I Never Had it Made?
There was more than just making money at stake in Mr. Rickey’s decision. I learned that his family was afraid that his health was being undermined by the resulting pressures and that they pleaded with him to abandon the plan. His peers and fellow baseball moguls exerted all kinds of influence to get him to change his mind. Some of the press condemned him as a fool and a demagogue. But he didn’t give in.
| verb | expressed public disapproval of
| verb | sentenced to death
| verb | declared (of a building) unfit for use
| verb | proved or showed someone’s guilt
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