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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the central idea of the first paragraph of Shakespeare of London?
Actors on the Elizabethan stage became wealthy.
Actors were widely respected.
Actors faced harsh conditions.
Actors did not need to be athletically skilled.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which sentence from paragraph 1 BEST supports the answer for Question 1?
"He worked on a raised stage."
"An actor went through a strenuous training."
"He worked . . . with none of the softening illusions that can be achieved in modern theater."
"Acting was not an easy profession on the Elizabethan stage or one to be taken lightly."
- 3. Multiple Choice
How does the author connect the ideas in paragraphs 3 and 4?
by describing the early training of the actors
by connecting the necessity of being able to fall without injury to being able to duel without inflicting injury
by connecting the need to fall without injury to the idea that hand-to-hand combat was often in Elizabethan plays
by explaining that the average Londoner was an expert on the subject of fencing.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which sentence best describes the theme of the passage taken from "Code Talkers"?
The Navajo code talkers speak a complicated language.
It is difficult to learn to speak the Navajo language.
The Navajo code talkers contributed greatly to the war effort of World War II.
Many Navajos realized that it would be difficult for them to learn English.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is the implied main idea of the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost?
One should be willing to choose a path in life that is different, even while realizing that it may not be easy.
One should make sure one doesn't get lost in the woods.
One will probably regret any decisions one makes.
Life is confusing and troubling.
- 6. Multiple Choice
What does the speaker in "The Road Not Taken" mean when he says, "Yet knowing how way leads on to way,/ I doubted if I should ever come back"?
He knew the way back to this part of the woods.
He knew that this path led him to another way out of the woods.
He feared that this path would lead him to his death.
He doubted he would come back because life seldom allows us to go back to a place.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which quotation reveals the speaker's conclusion about the path he has chosen to follow in "The Road not Taken"?
"Because it was grassy and wanted wear"
"Oh, I kept the first for another day!"
"And that has made all the difference."
"I shall be telling this with a sigh."
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which choice states the inferred main idea of the passage by Helen Keller?
The author was grateful to learn what words mean even though it was a difficult process.
The author enjoyed playing with her doll until she broke it.
The author turned seven years old three days after March 3, 1887.
The author felt satisfied when her teacher swept up the pieces of her broken doll.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which statement is the STRONGEST support for the main idea of the passage by Helen Keller?
The author never wanted to learn to spell.
The author was confused and angry because she lived in a "still, dark world."
Anne Mansfield Sullivan was a very kind woman.
The author is now remembered as a courageous woman.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which assertion is best supported by the evidence in the passage by Helen Keller?
The author was always very studious and thoughtful.
Anne Mansfield Sullivan worked as a school teacher before working with the author.
At first, learning to relate words to objects was very difficult for the author.
The author did not need a teacher to learn how to spell.
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