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Facts and Visions Practice
Gavin Munro is taking this assessment.
from “Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad”by Ann Petry
1 That first winter in St. Catharines was a terrible one. Canada was a strange frozen land, snow everywhere, ice everywhere, and a bone-biting cold the like of which none of them had ever experienced before. Harriet rented a small frame house in the town and set to work to make a home. The fugitives boarded with her. They worked in the forests, felling trees, and so did she. Sometimes she took other jobs, cooking or cleaning house for people in the town. She cheered on these newly arrived fugitives, working herself, finding work for them, finding food for them, praying for them, sometimes begging for them.
2 Often she found herself thinking of the beauty of Maryland, the mellowness of the soil, the richness of the plant life there. The climate itself made for an ease of living that could never be duplicated in this bleak, barren countryside.
Use the passage to answer the questions.
1
What is the implied main idea of the passage?
(1 point)
Harriet and the fugitives only survived because of the kindness of others.
Harriet worked hard to ensure the fugitives survived the harsh winter.
Harriet and the fugitives wished they could go back to Maryland.
Harriet would not have survived without encouragement from the fugitives.
2
Which detail from the passage best supports the main idea?
(1 point)
Harriet and the fugitives had never experienced a cold like that before.
The fugitives boarded with Harriet in a small house.
Harriet felled trees, cooked and cleaned houses, and sometimes begged for the fugitives.
Harriet thought often about the beauty of Maryland.
Emily Dickinson is considered one of America’s greatest poets, but few of her poems were published in her lifetime. Born in 1830, Dickinson grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, and attended school there and in nearby Holyoke. She was no doubt familiar with other popular New England writers of her day, especially Ralph Waldo Emerson. Dickinson had a fairly normal social life until she reached her mid-twenties, after which she rarely left the home she inherited from her parents. Instead, she seems to have been able to understand the world better by viewing it from a distance. With a sharp eye and keen intellect, she pondered nature, friendship, love, and death in poems of powerful simplicity. Only about seven were published during her lifetime, all without her consent. When she died in 1886, relatives found over 1,500 more of Dickinson’s poems, many of them written on napkins and slips of paper neatly tied up with ribbons.
Use the selection to answer the question.
3
Which statement best explains why the passage is biographical, not autobiographical?
(1 point)
It tells about important events in the subject’s life.
It tells a true account of events written by the person who experienced the events.
It is one person’s account of events in the life of another person.
It gives the years of birth and death for Emily Dickinson.
from “The Trouble with Television” by Robert MacNeil
1 There is a crisis of literacy in this country. One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are “functionally illiterate” and cannot read or write well enough to answer a want ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle.
2 Literacy may not be an inalienable human right, but it is one that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable or even unattainable. We are not only not attaining it as a nation, statistically speaking, but we are falling further and further short of attaining it. And, while I would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the cause, I believe it contributes and is an influence.
3 Everything about this nation—the structure of the society, its forms of family organization, its economy, its place in the world—has become more complex, not less. Yet its dominating communications instrument, its principal form of national linkage, is one that sells neat resolutions to human problems that usually have no neat resolutions. It is all symbolized in my mind by the hugely successful art form that television has made central to the culture, the thirty-second commercial: the tiny drama of the earnest housewife who finds happiness in choosing the right toothpaste.
4 When before in human history has so much humanity collectively surrendered so much of its leisure to one toy, one mass diversion? When before has virtually an entire nation surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling?
5 Some years ago Yale University law professor Charles L. Black, Jr. wrote: “. . . forced feeding on trivial fare is not itself a trivial matter.” I think this society is being force fed with trivial fare, and I fear that the effects on our habits of mind, our language, our tolerance for effort, and our appetite for complexity are only dimly perceived. If I am wrong, we will have done no harm to look at the issue skeptically and critically, to consider how we should be resisting it. I hope you will join with me in doing so.
Use the passage to answer the questions.
4
Which statement from the passage represents an appeal to reason?
(1 point)
One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are “functionally illiterate”. . .
When before has virtually an entire nation surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling?
I fear that the effects on our habits of mind, our language, our tolerance for effort, and our appetite for complexity are only dimly perceived.
If I am wrong, we will have done no harm to look at the issue skeptically and critically, to consider how we should be resisting it.
5
How does the author appeal to reason in the answer to the previous question?
(1 point)
through history
through data
through experts
through media events
Use the passage to answer the question.
6
Which of the following descriptions best conveys the author’s negative attitude toward television?
(1 point)
communications instrument
form of national linkage
toy
medium for selling
Use the passage to answer the question.
7
Which phrase from the passage uses the future perfect verb tense?
(1 point)
Everything about this nation—the structure of the society, its forms of family organization, its economy, its place in the world—has become more complex . . .
If I am wrong, we will have done no harm to look at the issue skeptically and critically, to consider how we should be resisting it . . .
It is all symbolized in my mind by the hugely successful art form that television has made central to the culture, the thirty-second commercial . . .
Literacy may not be an inalienable human right, but it is one that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable . . .
8
Which statement is true about facts and opinions?
(1 point)
Facts can be proved true or false, but opinions are always false.
Facts can be proved; opinions express a person’s judgment or belief.
Both facts and opinions can be proved true or false.
Facts are supported by evidence, but opinions cannot be supported by evidence.
9
Which of the following methods of organization would be best suited for an essay on the events leading up to the Civil War?
(1 point)
order of importance
spatial order
chronological order
comparison-and-contrast order
10
What does the subjunctive in the following sentence express?
The principal asks that all students arrive on time to school each morning.
(1 point)
a request
a demand
a hope
a proposal
11
Which of the following sentences uses the subjunctive?
(1 point)
I would like to go to the beach today.
I wanted to go to the beach today, but it was too cold outside.
I wish that I were going to the beach today.
My brother and I are going to the beach today.
1.B
2.C
3.d
And the rest I have no idea, I need help
I missed three on this test but these are the correct answers.
1. B
2. C
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. D
7. B
8. B
9. C
10. A
11. C
I got 100% for the pretest for unit 3 heres the answers
1. B
2. C
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. D
7. B
8. B
9. C
10. A
11. C
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4.C - I don't think so
5.A - No
6.B - No
7.B - Yes
8.A - No
9.D - No
10.B - No