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3rd Six Weeks Review

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10 questions

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Question 1

1.

Which topic is most closely related to the author's message of the passage?

A. life in the city of Portland

B. changing views on women and careers

C. disagreements between family members

D. lessons learned when pranks don't go as planned

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Question 2

2.

Part A
How does the fact that Eleanor doesn't like April Fools' Day affect the passage?

A. It shows how Eleanor's husband is better at humor than she is.

B. It provides details about how Eleanor's family interacts with one another.

C. It provides Eleanor and her husband with a reason to talk to Mrs. Baldwin.

D. It shows how much Eleanor does not like the way her family behaves on that day.

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Question 3

3.

Part B
Which sentence from the passage best supports the answer to the previous question?

A. Abigail and little Vernon nodded meekly as her husband, Albert, reached for the potatoes.

B. "I have told you I will not abide any more April Fools' jokes!" Eleanor exclaimed, her face flushing with anger.

C. Eleanor was forced to snatch up her hat and follow him sputtering outside, down the street, and up to the Baldwins' door.

D. "I knew you were trying to pull the wool over my eyes!"

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Question 4

4.

How does the author's choice of setting affect the passage?

A. Using Oregon as the setting shows how the state's culture is important to the passage.

B. Using a home as the setting shows that the family is the most important unit in the passage.

C. Using evening as the setting shows that it is an important time for the characters in the passage.

D. Using the early 1900s as the setting shows how the events going on in the world impact the passage.

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Question 5

5.

Part A
Which sentence best describes how Eleanor and Albert view the role of women in society differently?

A. Eleanor feels that women are more civil and well mannered than men, while Albert is not entirely convinced of this.

B. Eleanor thinks that women and men should be valued for their ability and not their gender, while Albert believes the opposite.

C. Eleanor feels that helping out in the community is not a valuable pursuit for women, while Albert feels that it is a very important one.

D. Eleanor thinks that the activities women are allowed to do should be limited, while Albert believes that women are capable of much more.

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Question 6

6.

Part B
Which detail from the passage best supports the answer to the previous question?

A. " . . . you're aware of how strongly I believe women belong in the home."

B. " . . . volunteering isn't"—she shuddered—"a job."

C. " . . . my husband is trying to catch me up in an absurd April Fools' story . . . "

D. " . . . in these unsettled times, we women must stick together."

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Question 7

7.

How does Eleanor's anger drive the plot forward?

A. It prompts her husband to go to a neighbor's house for support.

B. It makes her husband more determined to prove that he is telling the truth.

C. It causes her husband to change his mind about playing pranks on his family.

D. It forces her husband to realize that he must adjust his own behavior to make her happy.

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Question 8

8.

(6) To capitalize on his idea, Davis contacted a business associate named Levi Strauss. (7) He had opened a dry goods store in San Francisco.

Which combination of sentences 6-7 best clarifies the vague “he” in sentence 7?

A. To capitalize on his idea, Davis contacted a business associate named Levi Strauss, and opened a dry goods store in San Francisco.

B. To capitalize on his idea, David contracted a business associate named Levi Strauss, who had opened a dry goods store in San Francisco.

C. To capitalize on his idea, Davis contacted a business associate named Levi Strauss; he had opened a dry goods store in San Francisco.

D. To capitalize on his idea, Davis contracted a business associate named Levi Strauss in San Francisco.

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Question 9

9.

Which of these sentences from paragraph 2 contains information that can be removed from the essay?

A. Sentence 9

B. Sentence 10 

C. Sentence 11

D. Sentence 12

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Question 10

10.

How should sentence 15 be edited?

A. Thanks to movies such as The Wild Ones, Rebel Without a Cause, and West Side Story, young men and women across the United States began to copy the look of the films’ jean-clad rebellious and antisocial heroes.

B. Thanks to movies such as The Wild Ones Rebel, Without a Cause, and West Side Story, young men and women across the United States began to copy the look of the films’ jean-clad rebellious and antisocial heroes.

C. Thanks, to movies such as The Wild Ones Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story, young men, and women across the United States began to copy the look of the films’ jean-clad rebellious and antisocial heroes.

D. Thanks to movies, such as The Wild Ones Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story. Young men and women across the United States began to copy the look of the films’ jean-clad rebellious and antisocial heroes.