English Cumulative exam ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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English Cumulative
English Cumulative exam ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which answer choice is the best example of a theme?
A.-success
B.-Hard work and determination can lead to success.
C.-Few athletes become professionally successful.
D.-success in the workplace - CORRECT ANSWER- B.-Hard work and det...
English Cumulative exam ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which answer choice is the best example of a theme?
A.-success
B.-Hard work and determination can lead to success.
C.-Few athletes become professionally successful.
D.-success in the workplace - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B.-Hard work and determination
can lead to success.
How does rereading information in a text help a reader monitor comprehension?
A.-The reader can look up the definitions of difficult vocabulary words by reading additional
references.
B.-The reader scans the information in the text quickly to get a general idea of what the text
is about.
C.-The reader learns about the time period when the text was written by reading the author's
biography.
D.-The reader gains a clear understanding of the details in the text before moving on to read
more. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- D.-The reader gains a clear understanding of the details
in the text before moving on to read more.
Read the excerpt from "The New Marvel in Photography" by H. J. W. Dam.
In all the history of scientific discovery there has never been, perhaps, so general, rapid, and
dramatic an effect wrought on the scientific centres of Europe as has followed, in the past
four weeks, upon an announcement made to the Würzburg Physico-Medical Society, at their
December meeting, by Professor William Konrad Röntgen, professor of physics at the Royal
University of Würzburg. The first news which reached London was by telegraph from Vienna
to the effect that a Professor Röntgen, until then the possessor of only a local fame in the
town mentioned, had discovered a new kind of light, which penetrated and photographed
through everything. This news was received with a mild interest, some amusement, and much
incredulity; and a week passed. Then, by mail and telegraph, came daily clear indications of
the stir which the discovery was making in - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- D.-It is revealed
through a sequence of events and defined at the end of the text.
, Read the excerpt from This Land Was Made for You and Me.
Woody thought there was plenty to worry about. The Great Depression, which had begun in
1929, was grinding on. For years, desperate, hungry people had been tramping the roads and
riding the rails, looking for work or handouts.
Which song did Woody Guthrie most likely write based on these observations?
A.-"California Stars"
B.-"Gotta Work"
C.-"Mail Myself to You"
D.-"No Fear" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B.-"Gotta Work"
In the play The Diary of Anne Frank, the reader learns about each person through stage
directions, but in The Diary of a Young Girl, the reader learns about each person through
A.-dialogue between Anne and other characters.
B.-Anne's descriptions of each character.
C.-Anne's interactions with each character.
D.-dialogue between other characters about Anne. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B.-Anne's
descriptions of each character.
Read the sentences from "Fish Cheeks."
After everyone had gone, my mother said to me, "You want to be the same as American girls
on the outside."
Her mother's word choice reveals that Amy Tan thinks American girls are
A.-pretty.
B.-smart.
C.-fortunate.
D.-predictable. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A.-pretty.
In a group discussion,
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