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- 1. Multiple ChoiceCertainly the religious and moral ideas of the Dodsons and Tullivers were of too specific a kind to be arrived at deductively from the statement that they were part of the Protestant population of Great Britain. Their theory of life had its core of soundness, as all theories must have on which decent and propsperous families have been reared and have flourished; but it had the very slightest tincture of theology. If, in the maiden days of the Dodson sisters, their bibles opened more easily at some parts than other, it was becase of dried tulip petals, which had been distributed quite impartially without preference for the historical, devotional, or doctrinal. From the first sentence, one can infer which of the following about the Dodsons' and tullivers' religious and moral ideas?They are not typical of those of British Protestants in general.The narrator is unable to describe them with complete accuracy.They spring from a fundamental lack of tolerance for the ideas of others.They have no real logical foundation.
- 2. Multiple ChoiceIt has been well said that the highest aim in education is analogous to the highest aim in mathematics, namely, to obtain not results but powers, not particular solutions, but the means by which endless solutions may be wrought. He is the most effective educator who aims less at perfecting specific acquirements than at producing that mental condition which renders acquirements easy, and leads to their useful application; who does not seek to make his pupils moral by enjoining particular courses of action, but by bringing into activity the feelings and sympathies that must issue in noble action.(Line 12) On the same ground it may be said that the most effective writer is not he who announces a particular discovery, who convinces men of a particular conclusion, who demonstrates that this measure is right and that measure wrong; but he who rouses in others the activities that must issue in discovery, who awake men from their indifference to the right and the wrong, who nerves their energies to seek for the truth and live up to it at whatever cost. The author uses the phrase "On the same ground" (Lines 12-13) to set up a comparison between...Scientific writing and inspirational writingConceptually powerful writers and exemplary educators.The formulation of solutions and the indentification of problems.Intellectual challenges faced by writers and those faced by readers.
- 3. Multiple Choice(The following is an excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.) Mr. Severe, the overseer, used to stand by the door of the quarter, armed with a large hickory stick and heavy cow skin, ready to whip any one who was so unfortunate as not to hear, or, from any other cause, was prevented from being ready to start for the field at the sound of the horn. Mr. Severe was rightly named: he was a cruel man. I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time; and this, too, in the midst of her crying children, pleading for their mother’s release. He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity. Added to his cruelty, he was a profane swearer. It was enough to chill the blood and stiffen the hair of an ordinary man to hear him talk. Scarce a sentence escaped him but that was commenced or concluded by some horrid oath. The field was the place to witness his cruelty and profanity. His presence made it both the field of blood and of blasphemy. From the rising till the going down of the sun, he was cursing, raving, cutting, and slashing among the slaves of the field, in the most frightful manner. His career was short. He died very soon after I went to Colonel Lloyd’s; and he died as he lived, uttering, with his dying groans, bitter curses and horrid oaths. His death was regarded by the slaves as the result of a merciful providence. Mr. Severe’s place was filled by a Mr. Hopkins. He was a very different man. He was less cruel, less profane, and made less noise, than Mr. Severe. His course was characterized by no extraordinary demonstrations of cruelty. He whipped, but seemed to take no pleasure in it. He was called by the slaves a good overseer. Which statement does NOT describe Mr. Severe?A sadistic tyrantSo brutal that the slaves viewed his death as a blessingA disgusting, cruel slave ownerSomewhat inhuman
- 4. Multiple Choice"It is not surprising that Gullivers Travels should be filled with the shows and diversions of London. All the Scriblerians were fascinated with popular entertainments...." Scriblerians refers to...Book craftsmen in londonCharacters in Swifts novelsEnglish politicians and aristocratsA circle of English authors
- 5. Multiple Choice"...a young healthy child is well nursed us at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and i make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." fricassee is best interpreted to mean...AnimalChildDishPlace
- 6. Multiple Choice"What are the practical results of the cult of beauty? The exercises and the massages, the health motors and the skin foods... " The word "cult" as used in the passage means primarily to...A subculture dedicated to pagan riteA group with a particular obsessionThe devotees of a unique ideologyThe followers of a charismatic leader
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhich is an example of a euphemism?Her friends didn't care for her at all. They called her names attributed to starchy vegetables.She had told her younger sister that her aunt had gone to help God in his garden.Her teacher said her work was akin to the quality of an orangutan's do-it-yourself activity.His gimcrack was obtained from an aged witch in the Andes mountains.
- 8. Multiple ChoiceThe new morality is a morality of development. It teaches that there can no more be an immutable law of conduct, than there can be an immutable position for the steering-wheel of an aeroplane. The business of the pilot of an aeroplane is to keep his machine aloft amid shifting currents of wind. The business of a moralist is to adjust life to a constantly changing environment. an action which was suicide yesterday becomes heroism today, and futility or hypocrisy tomorrow. In the context of the passage the word "immutable" means ...subject to being questionedincomprehensibleunchanging throughout timequite diverse
- 9. Multiple Choice"Writing is not something that comes naturally to the chosen few. Most Amer- ican writers of my generation didn’t just learn to write on their own. Without the classes we took in creative writing and modem literature, we wouldnt have known what to read, how to read it, how to pay attention to form and content. We needed to be shown how to write good dialogue, smooth transitions, pared-down but vivid character descriptions. These things didn't come naturally. It would have taken us thirty years to learn, on our own, the same skills we learned in eight years of college and graduate school. My friends at graduate school came from average Midwestern homes; they were not children of famous writers. School gave us a chance we would never have had otherwise. In America, we are proof that the romantic notion of the natural writer is a myth. In Japan, where no formal training is offered in writing, the myth may be a sad reality that prevents many people from becoming writers." "School" by Kyoko Mori Which rhetorical strategy is not used in this excerpt?Personal AnecdoteParallel Sentence StructureSyllogismAnaphora
- 10. Multiple ChoiceAdapted from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1859) Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities. But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries. Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs be protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence, and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism. Which of the following best describes the tone Mill employs throughout this passage?Evenhanded and logicalSarcastic and bitingWhimsical and poeticImprecise and accusative
- 11. Multiple Choice"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is the earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next to the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows." In the passage, what image does the author use to describe the features of a lake surrounded by trees, hills and cliffs?EyelashesEyebrowsA faceAn eye
- 12. Multiple Choice"... was not such manhood to be welcomed back into a Union so tested and assured? Instructions had been given; and when the head of each division column comes opposite our group, our bugle sounds the signal ..." What is the effect of the author's use of passive voice in the phrase, "Instructions had been give"?It downplays the significance of the instructionsIt downplays the significance of the specific person who gave the instructionsIt suggests that the instructions could not be understoodIt makes the reader aware of the significance of the instructions
- 13. Multiple Choice(The following is an excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.) Mr. Severe, the overseer, used to stand by the door of the quarter, armed with a large hickory stick and heavy cow skin, ready to whip any one who was so unfortunate as not to hear, or, from any other cause, was prevented from being ready to start for the field at the sound of the horn. Mr. Severe was rightly named: he was a cruel man. I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time; and this, too, in the midst of her crying children, pleading for their mother’s release. He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity. Added to his cruelty, he was a profane swearer. It was enough to chill the blood and stiffen the hair of an ordinary man to hear him talk. Scarce a sentence escaped him but that was commenced or concluded by some horrid oath. The field was the place to witness his cruelty and profanity. His presence made it both the field of blood and of blasphemy. From the rising till the going down of the sun, he was cursing, raving, cutting, and slashing among the slaves of the field, in the most frightful manner. His career was short. He died very soon after I went to Colonel Lloyd’s; and he died as he lived, uttering, with his dying groans, bitter curses and horrid oaths. His death was regarded by the slaves as the result of a merciful providence. Mr. Severe’s place was filled by a Mr. Hopkins. He was a very different man. He was less cruel, less profane, and made less noise, than Mr. Severe. His course was characterized by no extraordinary demonstrations of cruelty. He whipped, but seemed to take no pleasure in it. He was called by the slaves a good overseer. Question: Which of the following statements is NOT true about the passage?Douglass creates a feeling of pathos in the reader by using auditory imagery (crying children, cursing, the sound of the horn).In spite of the violence, there is humor at the end of the passage when he describes the kinder overseer, Mr. Hopkins.Douglass creates emotion in the reader by using blood as imagery to support Mr. Severe's cruelty.Douglass creates a horrifying picture of slavery by showing in graphic detail the violence and cruelty of Mr. Severe.
- 14. Multiple Choice"Schools typically overlay computers onto their instruction 'like frosting on the cake,' Baker said. 'We decided that the real opportunity was to make the laptops the key ingredient of the cake . . . to truly change the way that schools operated.'" This passage contains an example of...EuphemismMetaphorJokePun
- 15. Multiple Choice(The following is an excerpt from a book by naturalist John Muir.) What literary device does the author use in the following sentence? “…things frail and fleeting and types of endurance meeting here and blending in countless forms, as if into this one mountain Nature had gathered her choicest treasures…”personificationironyalliterationanecdote
- 16. Multiple ChoiceAdapted from "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still VULGARLY, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities. But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries. Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. What is the meaning of the capitalized word VULGARLY in the passage's first sentence?RudelyIn a way that completely ignores social moresBy the general publicRarely
- 17. Multiple ChoiceGettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, 1863 "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." The speaker's tone in the passage as a whole can BEST be described asdispassionate and clinicalconciliatory and forgivingreverent and humbledecisive and indignant
- 18. Multiple ChoiceGettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, 1863 "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." The passage as a whole can BEST be described asa commemoration that gives way to criticisma case for how the past can influence the futurean outline of causes that seem to be true of all human conflictan alternation between the promise and peril of building a new nation
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThe primary rhetorical function of the lines "Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their 'thus saith the Lord' far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid" is to?Appeal to the audience's emotions through the use of Biblical allusionsProvide a Biblical allusion to enhance his sarcastic toneInform to his audience about the BibleTo spread religious influence among the clergymen
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhich rhetorical device is present in the underlined sentence: "Oil of pennyroyal and eucalyptol are also much hated by mosquitoes, and with citronella they form the basis for many proprietary preparations"?AsyndetonAlliterationAllegoryAnaphora
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