Answer Numbers 1 through 10 on your Answer Sheet. Base your answers on the passage “Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?”
Which of these statements is a fact?
Whose opinion is expressed in the sentence below?
After all, the French and Indian part of the war had been fought on American soil for the benefit of Americans, so why shouldn't they help pay for it?
Which word indicates an opinion in the text from the passage below?
Now King George believed that above all a king should be firm...
Read these sentences from the passage.
King George was amazed that Americans objected. He was flabbergasted that they claimed he had no right to tax them. Just because they had no say in the matter. Just because they had no representatives in the English government.
You can tell from the tone of the sentences above that the author feels that King George is
Read this sentence from the passage.
King George had a habit of talking rapidly and repeating himself so that his talk often sounded like a gobble.
To what is the author comparing King George's way of speaking?
Which sentence from the passage contains a simile?
Read these sentences from the passage.
But always in the end he had to go back to being a king. Back to the problem of America. This was the way he thought of America. A problem.
The overall tone of these sentences is
What was Lord North's opinion when he heard about the events at Yorktown?
Which of these sentences from the passage is a fact?
Which fact would best support the opinion that King George's taxes were a bad idea?