Pregunta 1
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Ex-Basketball Player: Which of the following literary devices correctly labels the selected excerpt from the poem?
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Metaphor - Most days, you'll find Flick Webb, who helps Beth out.
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Simile - Their rubber elbows hanging loose and low.
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Alliteration - Beyond her face toward bright applauding tiers of Necco Wafers, Nibs, and Juju Beads.
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Simile - His hands were like wild birds.
Pregunta 2
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Ex-Basketball Player - Who is the main character in this poem?
Pregunta 3
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Angela's Ashes - The book "Angela's Ashes" is considered to be of what genre?
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Biography
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Autobiography
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Memoir
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Fiction
Pregunta 4
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Angela's Ashes - Seamus is unhappy about the book Patricia gives Frank because
Pregunta 5
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Angela's Ashes - What is the name of the poem Patricia shares with Frank?
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The Highwayman
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The Night Robber
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Midnight Murder
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The Raven
Pregunta 6
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The following sentence is written in present tense: I wanted to buy a water gun for my friend's birthday so I went to the store but I didn't have enough money.
Pregunta 7
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On Being Seventeen, Bright - and Unable to Read: What disability did David face?
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Dyslexia
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Dysgraphia
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ADD
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Dyslearnia
Pregunta 8
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The Cask of Amontillado: Who is the author of "The Cask of Amontillado"?
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Richard Wright
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Edgar Allen Poe
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William Blake
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Maya Angelou
Pregunta 9
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The Cask of Amontillado: Montressor carefully plans his revenge. He does all of the following to prepare EXCEPT ONE. Which of the following is NOT one of the things he does to prepare for his revenge?
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Making sure his servants are not home.
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Attaching a padlock and chains to the wall of the catacombs
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Obtaining a cask of Amontillado
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Hiding a trowel beneath his cape
Pregunta 10
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The Sniper - What alerts the enemy sniper to the sniper on the rooftop?
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Shuffling his feet
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Humming a tune
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Lighting a cigarette
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Raising his gun
Pregunta 11
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The Sniper - The Sniper is set during which war?
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American Civil War
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Irish Civil War
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American Revolution
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WWII
Pregunta 12
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The Necklace - Why is Madame Loisel upset at receiving the invitation to a fancy party?
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She doesn't know how to behave at a fancy party
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She doesn't have the appropriate clothes to wear
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She knows very few of the people who will be there
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She thinks her husband will embarrass her at the party
Pregunta 13
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The Necklace - The events in the story suggest that what Madame Loisel fears most is:
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Poverty
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Boredom
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Humiliation
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The loss of her beauty
Pregunta 14
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The Scarlet Ibis - What is a scarlet ibis?
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A bird
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An injury
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A Game
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A kid
Pregunta 15
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The Scarlet Ibis - In general, how does Doodle respond to the narrator's efforts to push him beyond what Doodle thinks he can do?
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Angrily
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Willingly
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Fearfully
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Fearlessly
Pregunta 16
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The Most Dangerous Game - Which of the following statements would Ransford and Zaroff fail to agree about?
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The greatest sport is hunting
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The world is made up of hunters and the hunted
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Animals do not have the capacity to reason and understand
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Animals do not offer sufficient challenge to be interesting prey
Pregunta 17
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The Most Dangerous Game - At the end of the story, the fact that Rainsford is sleeping in Zaroff's bed indicates that:
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Zaroff has admitted defeat
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Rainsford has killed Zaroff
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Rainsford has scared Zaroff off
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Rainsford has decided to join Zaroff's activities
Pregunta 18
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Research Writing - Which of the following best describes paraphrasing?
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Rearranging words in a passage
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Rewriting ideas presented in a passage after you have read and clearly understood the original
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Piecing together sentences from more than one source
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Switching every word in a sentence with a synonym
Pregunta 19
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What is the preferred font and size for a MLA research paper?
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Callibri, 11
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Verdana, 10
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Times New Roman, 12
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Times New Roman, 10
Pregunta 20
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Research Writing - Does a period go before or after a closing quotation mark of a title?