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Grammar SkillsChoose the correct way to rewrite the underlined section of each sentence.
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Julia Child, a famous French cook and television personality, paved the way for many aspiring chefs throughout history she is remembered as the prima donna of the kitchen.

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Choose the best way to combine the following sentences. A group of geologists took a trip to Indonesia. They wanted to learn more about the volcano eruption. They wanted to see what the land looks like today.

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The following sentence can be classified as which type of sentence
As the children sang in the choir, I realized that hope for our future had come and that peace was with the new generation.

Choose the underlined portion of the given sentence which needs revision.
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While working on his final novel in the trilogy, Stan soon realized that his main character and her protagonist were developing a love triangle with the prosecuting attorney, but Stan never got down and comfy with new twist in the plot.

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All critically acclaimed novels such as Jane Eyre, Dr. Zchivago, and My Cousin Rachael, transmits a cultural awareness of the time period in which they were written, thus creating a slice of life.

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If one wants to be successful in life, you must be prepared to face challenges head on and be prepared to adjust plans at a moment’s notice.

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Each of the members of the bowling team had their own way of approaching the line; some led with long steps, some with short steps.

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I was amazed at the speed of the comet as it blazed across the sky very quick while the tail of the comet trailed in its path.

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While riding in the open boat, Mary had to remove her Navajo printed scarf from her shoulders which she purchased on her vacation out West last summer.

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I couldn’t hardly believe it, when I put my first dollar in the slot machine, I heard the bells ringing and the music playng; I had won on a long shot.

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Who is most generous with his time and money, John or David.

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We would of spent more time practicing for the play, but too many of the actors and actresses were home sick with laryngitis.

O Pioneers

Read the following excerpt from Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!, an American novel which tells the story of a Swedish pioneers and the Nebraska plains and then answer the questions that follow.
The Divide is now thickly populated. The rich soil yields heavy harvests; the dry, bracing climate and the smoothness of the land make labor easy for men and beasts. There are few scenes more gratifying than a spring plowing in that country, where the furrows of a single field often lie a mile in length, and the brown earth, with such a strong, clean smell, and such a power of growth and fertility in it, yields itself eagerly to the plow; rolls away from the shear, not even dimming the brightness of the metal, with a soft, deep sigh of happiness. The wheat-cutting sometimes goes on all night as well as all day, and in good seasons there are scarcely men and horses enough to do the harvesting. The grain is so heavy that it bends toward the blade and cuts like velvet.

There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back. Like the plains of Lombardy, it seems to rise a little to meet the sun. The air and the earth are curiously mated and intermingled, as if the one were the breath of the other. You feel in the atmosphere the same tonic, puissant quality that is in the tilth, the same strength and resoluteness.
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The passage is told from which point of view?

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The word “ungrudgingly” (second paragraph) most likely means

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The description of the soil and the harvest (first paragraph) can best be described as

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What literary device occurs in the third sentence of the second paragraph?

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Which of the following phrases does not show the joy of the soil and/or the harvest?

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In the first paragraph, the land is described as all of the following except

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The pronoun “itself” (first paragraph third sentence) refers to

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In the first paragraph, what literary device is used when the soil gives “a soft, deep sigh of happiness.”

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he author’s purpose in this passage is primarily to

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The tone of this passage can best be described as

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The development of this passage is primarily created through

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“The wheat-cutting sometimes goes on all night as well as all day, and in good seasons there are scarcely men and horses enough to do the harvesting.” In this sentence from the first paragraph, what can be inferred?

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The theme of the passage can best be stated as

“Snowbound”
Read the excerpt from the following poem “Snow-Bound: a Winter Idyl” by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier and then answer the questions that follow.
The sun that brief December day 1
Rose cheerless over hills of gray,
And, darkly circled, gave at noon
A sadder light than waning moon.
Slow tracing down the thickening sky 5
Its mute and ominous prophecy,
A portent seeming less than threat,
It sank from sight before it set.
A chill no coat, however stout,
Of homespun stuff could quite shut out, 10
A hard, dull bitterness of cold,
checked, mid-vein, the circling race
Of life-blood in the sharpened face,
The coming of the snow-storm told.
The wind blew east; we heard the roar 15
Of Ocean on his wintry shore,
And felt the strong pulse throbbing there
Beat with low rhythm our inland air.
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The first sentence of the poem has all of the following poetic devices except

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The word “waning” (line 4) in context most closely means

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The choice of the word “sharpened” to describe the face most likely alludes to

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The narration of the selection is

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Which of the following best describes the tone that narrator has toward the snow

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The theme of this selection can best be stated as

Miantinomo of the Narraganset People Speaks:

Brothers, we must be one as the English are, or we shall soon all be destroyed. You know our fathers had plenty of deer and skins, and our plains were full of deer and of turkeys, and our coves and rivers were full of fish. But, brothers, since these English have seized upon our country, they cut down the grass with scythes, and the trees with axes. Their cows and horses eat up the grass, and their hogs spoil our beds of clams; and finally we shall starve to death! Therefore, stand not in your own light, I beseech you, but resolve with us to act like men. All the sachems both to the east and to the west [to the north and to the south] have joined with us, and we are all resolve to fall upon them, at a day appointed, and therefore I have come secretly to you, because you can persuade the [warriors] to do what you will. Brothers, I will send over fifty [Narraganset] warriors to Manisse, and thirty to you from thence, and take a hundred of your own here. And, when you see the three fires that will be made at the end of forty days hence, in a clear night, then act as we act, and the next day fall on and kill [every single white] men, women, and children, but no cows; they must not be killed as we need them for provisions, till deer comes again.

Miantinomo of the Narraganset people c. 1642-1643
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The author of the letter can best be described as

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The tone of the writer is

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The author’s main claim is

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All of the following are given as evidence except

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This speech is

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The food source that the native Americans rely upon the most is

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In the fifth sentence “beseech” means to

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The native Americans have lost all of the following except

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“Therefore, stand not in your own light” is an example of

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The speaker proposes to

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The letter is still relevant today regarding

Long Answer
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.In decision making, we usually follow a reasoned process: weighing pros and cons, talking things over with a friend, and drawing on our past actions and experiences. In snap judgments (decisions that we make on the spot, with no reflection beforehand) we do not follow such a methodical decision-making process. Everything tells us that relying on snap judgments is unwise. We make such decisions, however, because they ultimately work out better than decisions to which we give a lot of thought.

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Assignment: Assignment: Are snap judgments better than decisions to which people give a lot of thought? Plan an essay and write an introductory paragraph stating your point of view on the issue outlining your main points of argument. Then explore one of your arguments into a well developed body paragraph. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. (Again you are only writing the first two paragraphs of your essay)