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Unit 4 Test Review
Unit 4 Critical Skills Test Review
Question | Answer |
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Refer to the excerpt from "Paper Pills" by Sherwood Anderson on the Unit Test Reading Passages page. In line 25 "confound" most nearly means __________. | confuse |
Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. Why do people wonder about the marriage between Dr. Reefy and his wife? | His wife is young, beautiful, and wealthy. |
Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. Which word best describes Dr. Reefy? | peculiar |
Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. What is unique about Dr. Reefy's hands? | They are abnormally large. |
Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. When the narrator says "in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine," he most likely means that Dr. Reefy | has inner qualities that make him admirable |
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. Thanks to the twins' skillful __________, Aunt Phyllis never suspected the surprise party they threw for her. | collusion |
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. Unlike the lighthearted __________ of her youth, Rosalind's adulthood proved to be full of frustration and constant | placidness...anxiety |
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. Both __________ and __________, the abandoned garden survived the bleak winter and produced an abundance of flowers the following spring. | hardy...profuse |
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. Someone with __________ beliefs advocates all types of freedoms, even those that she does not practice. | libertarian |
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. After several years of living __________ on an enormous estate, the family members had to admit that their shrinking income was too __________ to allow them to stay. | lavishly...meager |
Read the passage titled "George Washington Carver" on the Unit Test Reading Passages sheet. Then answer the questions that follow to improve elements of the passage such as sentence structure, word choice, overall organization, tone, and voice. | educator, was born into slavery in 1864 in Missouri. |
In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 2 (reprinted below)? When slavery ended, Carver moved to Kansas, which he went to high school in. | Kansas, where he went to high school. |
Refer to Passage 2 to answer this question. In context, which is the best version of the underlined portions of sentences 3 and 4 (reprinted below)? After graduating, Carver attended Iowa State University. The university is located in Ames, Iowa. | Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. |
In Passage 2, In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of sentences 5 (reprinted below)? There, he became the school's first African-American student, and studied agricultural science and received a bachelor's degree in 1894. | student, studied agricultural science, and received a bachelor's degree in 1894. |
Refer to Passage 2 to answer this question. Which of the following best replaces the word "it" in Sentence 10? | the peanut |