I need help with the "Lesson 12: Making Changes Unit Test" in launguage arts.
Read the excerpt from Hometown Summer.
DIANE: Why don't you three go pick out your bedrooms?
TASHA: (Tasha runs offstage.) I get the green one!
1. The stage directions in this excerpt tell the reader that Tasha is (1 point)
excitable.
headstrong.
rude.
anxious.
Read the excerpt from Brighton Beach Memoirs, by Neil Simon.
KATE Your Aunt Blanche has a splitting headache.
BLANCHE I don't want him to stop playing. It's just the banging.
LAURIE (Looks up from her book) He always does it when I'm studying. I have a big test in history tomorrow.
EUGENE One pitch, Mom? I think I can get him to pop up. I have my stuff today.
KATE Your father will give you plenty of stuff when he comes home! You hear?
EUGENE All right! All right!
KATE I want you inside now! Put out the water glasses.
BLANCHE I can do that.
KATE Why? Is his arm broken? (She yells out again) And I don't want any back talk, you hear?
(She goes back to the kitchen)
EUGENE (Slams the ball into his glove angrily. Then he cups his hands, making a megaphone out of it and announces to the grandstands) "Attention, ladeees and gentlemen! Today's game will be delayed because of my Aunt Blanche's headache..."
2. Which line best helps the audience understand Kate's viewpoint that Eugene is disrespectful to her? (1 point)
All right! All right!
Your Aunt Blanche has a splitting headache.
(She yells out again) And I don’t want any back talk, you hear?
One pitch, Mom?
3. According to "Drawn to Barre," why were immigrants skilled in stonecutting attracted to Barre, Vermont? (1 point)
There was an opera in the town.
They wanted to work on the railroad.
There were quarries in or near the town.
They wanted to form labor unions.
Read the excerpt from "At School."
Practical job training was important. Many kids went directly from grammar school to special vocational schools sponsored by private agencies like the Children's Aid Society in New York City. The society operated separate trade schools for boys and girls. The courses offered reflected the kinds of jobs open to the students. For boys: shoemaking, printing, carpentry, sign painting, bookbinding, basketry, chair caning, janitorial work. For girls: cooking, sewing, embroidery, dressmaking, millinery, stenography, typewriting.
4. Which best describes the structure of this paragraph? (1 point)
compare and contrast
chronological order
cause and effect
sequence of events
5. Which is one way that the inclusion of Sophie Ruskay’s personal account contributes to the purpose of At School? (1 point)
It highlights why the children hated repeating lessons.
It emphasizes the difficult conditions in many schools.
It highlights how immigrant children learned about America.
It emphasizes the difficulties faced by immigrant children.
The chart is from the passage "Drawn to Barre."
A 3-column table with 4 rows. Column 1 is labeled Year with entries 1830, 1880, 1890, 1900. Column 2 is labeled Barre Population with entries 2,012; 2,060; 6,790; 10,000. The third column is labeled Percent increase with entries blank, 2.4 percent, 229.6 percent, 47.3 percent.
6. Based on the passage, which best describes the purpose of this chart? (1 point)
to emphasize how the development of unions affected the population
to show how the population of Barre decreased when stone workers arrived
to emphasize how the growth of the railroad affected the population
to show how the population of Barre decreased when it became more artistic
7. Which detail from "Drawn to Barre" best supports the idea that stonecutters unions’ fought for workers’ rights? (1 point)
By 1900, the Barre Granite Cutters' Union had over 1000 members and was the largest in the United States.
Many who came to Barre had an interest in politics. Some stonecutters wanted to start labor unions.
The rules for entry became stricter over the next 20 years. By then the people of Barre had already formed a union.
At the start of the 20th century, the union realized that breathing stone dust while working was extremely dangerous to workers, and tried to raise awareness about conditions.
Read the paragraph from "Home Place Retold."
They became merchants, carpenters, teachers, clergy, and (most often) farmers. Their landscape was Watonwan County in western Minnesota. Young families worked hard to build a life. They came from a farming tradition that included methods unknown to many Americans. As usual, new ideas were viewed with some doubt. The use of crop rotation, for example, was common for the newcomers. They also used potassium for fertilizer. Their practices produced better crops than other farms. A good idea is hard to ignore, and they soon gained status as first-rate farmers.
8. Which best paraphrases this paragraph? (1 point)
Immigrant families worked extremely hard when they came to America and quickly gained status.
Using potassium as fertilizer, a technique of immigrant farmers, helped many people
New farming techniques had a major impact on farming in the Midwest, producing first-rate crops.
Immigrant families brought new farming techniques to America, which proved very effective.
9. Which detail from "At School" supports the central idea that foreign-born children were not given enough meaningful support at school in the early 1900s? (1 point)
They were simply placed in regular classes with much younger American-born children.
Instruction emphasized the three Rs, American history and geography, penmanship, and spelling.
Students stood at their desks as they performed physical fitness exercises every morning.
In some city schools, nearly all the students came from immigrant families.
Read the sentence.
Anish is researching the history of the Olympics and finds a government report that has information he can cite in his essay.
10. This type of source is considered (1 point)
an academic source.
an internal source.
a popular publication source.
a news publication source.
Read the excerpt from Immigrant Kids, by Russell Freedman.
Men, women, and children were packed into dark, foul-smelling compartments. They slept in narrow bunks stacked three high. They had no showers, no lounges, and no dining rooms. Food served from huge kettles was dished into dinner pails provided by the steamship company. Because steerage conditions were crowded and uncomfortable, passengers spent as much time as possible up on deck.
11. Based on the concrete details in this excerpt, which word best describes how the immigrants felt? (1 point)
anxious
awkward
embarrassed
distressed
Mr. Reed's second-period class.
12. Which group of words would correct the sentence fragment? (1 point)
at last
is studying Shakespeare
the students in
at Lincoln Middle School
Read the topic from Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman.
Immigrant families had close family ties.
13. Which quotation best develops this topic? (1 point)
“looked with wonder on this miraculous land of our dreams”
“I held tightly to Stepfather’s hands, while Liberta and Helvetia clung to Mother”
“now the incredible buildings of lower Manhattan came very close to us”
“a few moments later we came to our dock, and the long journey was over”
Read this excerpt from Immigrant Kids, by Russell Freedman.
Immigrants usually crossed the Atlantic as steerage passengers. Reached by steep, slippery stairways, the steerage lay deep down in the hold of the ship. It was occupied by passengers paying the lowest fare.
Men, women, and children were packed into dark, foul-smelling compartments. They slept in narrow bunks stacked three high. They had no showers, no lounges, and no dining rooms.
14. The purpose of this excerpt is to help readers understand immigrants’ (1 point)
unsafe living conditions.
uncomfortable travel conditions.
unhealthy meal choices.
unhappy family lives.
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