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College Credit English (English) Quiz on SSSPQ Practice Questions, created by Niat Habtemariam on 01/11/2013.
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Question 1

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Choose all the correct answers for the following question: What constitues plagiarism?
Answer
  • Using George Washington's birthday, without citing.
  • Using Proverbs, without citing
  • Quoting word-for-word a passage and citing the author.
  • Putting the information in your own words and not citing.

Question 2

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What kind of things does William build, experiment with or design?
Answer
  • Windmill
  • plow
  • toy trucks
  • radios
  • trebuchets
  • bird traps
  • rickshaws

Question 3

Question
What kind of figurative language is used in Hughes poem? "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?"
Answer
  • personification
  • aliteration
  • onomatopoeia
  • simile

Question 4

Question
In what ways does Cholera spread?
Answer
  • Hands
  • Feet
  • Soil
  • Trees
  • Flies
  • Bees
  • Water
  • Honey

Question 5

Question
What style is The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind written in?
Answer
  • Informal
  • formal
  • literary
  • non-literary

Question 6

Question
The following sentence from chapter 5 is an example of what kind of figurative language? "My stomach must have also been fooled from last night's nsm
Answer
  • Simile
  • metaphor
  • personification
  • onomatopoeia

Question 7

Question
Which sentence(s) are punctuated properly?
Answer
  • Maria can I help you?
  • After you ran out of money you called your parents, but only my sister was home, unfortunately.
  • I’m a not-so-rich person, but I can do the following: offer you a small loan, offer you some temporary work or help you find a new job.
  • "Yes I'll go to the store," said Dr. Winston, the guy with the top hat.

Question 8

Question
How does education influence William's ability to transform himself and the world around him.
Answer
  • He turns into a butterfly
  • He is able to provide electricity for himself and his household.
  • He gives people hope.
  • It shows that young people are capable of great things.
  • It causes a divide between adults and children.
  • He becomes more of a loner.

Question 9

Question
What are some reading strategies?
Answer
  • Read past things you don't understand.
  • Summarize what you have read by briefly restating the central ideas in your own words.
  • Revisit events that you find confusing.
  • Question the events described and their significance.
  • Predict what will happen later in the selection.
  • Highlight anything interesting.
  • Doodle in your notebook when you are stuck.

Question 10

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In what way(s) do the poem and the story connect? "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?"
Answer
  • Williams dreams to build a windmill cause him to explode in anger when he can't build one.
  • William's dreams to build a windmill become a heavy load because he can't build it.
  • William's dreams of going to school cause him to be upset when he can't afford to go.
  • William's dreams of learning are not interrupted by a lack of schooling because he is resourceful.

Question 11

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The following is an example of what kind of figurative language? "The mountain was getting higher for everyone."
Answer
  • simile
  • metaphor
  • personification
  • symbolism

Question 12

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The following sentence is an example of what kind of figurative language? "December arrived with heavy clouds, black as oil, that gathered for days o
Answer
  • Simile
  • metaphor
  • personification
  • alliteration

Question 13

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In what way(s) is William resourceful?
Answer
  • He uses animal parts and bones to help him build things.
  • He gets parts from a scrap yard.
  • He uses his mom's kitchen to build things.
  • He takes parts from an old unused bathroom.
  • He gets his parents to support him with money.
  • He has traders donate parts for him.
  • He builds his own tools.

Question 14

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Which is an example of a properly cited passage. Knox, Bernard. Introductuion. The Odyssesy of Homer. Trans. Robert Fagles.
Answer
  • The third-century-B.C. geographer Eratosthenes, for example, thought that Homer’s story was totally imaginary (Knox 25).
  • The great Alexandrian geographer Eratosthenes said that trying to identify Odysseus’ ports of call would be a wild goose chase.
  • The third-century-B.C. geographer Eratosthenes, for example, thought that Homer’s story was totally imaginary (Knox, 25).
  • The great Alexandrian geographer Eratosthenes said that trying to identify Odysseus’ ports of call would be a wild goose chase. (Knox)

Question 15

Question
Choose all the correct possibilities for the following question: What elements make up what a style is?
Answer
  • Mood
  • Tone
  • Word Choice
  • Organization
  • Sentence structure

Question 16

Question
Literary Style uses which of the following elements?
Answer
  • uses sophisticated, abstract language
  • often includes long, elaborate sentences
  • may use complex sentence structures
  • may use contractions and slang
  • sounds like everyday conversation
  • carefully observes the rules of grammar
  • may use IMAGERY to convey MOOD
  • may use simple sentences and fragments
  • reader often gets to know the narrator (the voice that tells the story)

Question 17

Question
Formal Style uses which of the following elements?
Answer
  • uses sophisticated, abstract language
  • often includes long, elaborate sentences
  • may use complex sentence structures
  • may use contractions and slang
  • sounds like everyday conversation
  • carefully observes the rules of grammar
  • may use IMAGERY to convey MOOD
  • may use simple sentences and fragments
  • reader often gets to know the narrator (the voice that tells the story)

Question 18

Question
Informal Style uses which of the following elements?
Answer
  • uses sophisticated, abstract language
  • often includes long, elaborate sentences
  • may use complex sentence structures
  • may use contractions and slang
  • sounds like everyday conversation
  • carefully observes the rules of grammar
  • may use IMAGERY to convey MOOD
  • may use simple sentences and fragments
  • reader often gets to know the narrator (the voice that tells the story)

Question 19

Question
What things do readers look for to identify characterization?
Answer
  • What characters do
  • What my friend says about the character
  • What the author says about the character
  • What characters say
  • What other people say about the character

Question 20

Question
What things characterize William in the book "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind"?
Answer
  • "Quiet down," someone said. "Let's see how crazy this boy really is?
  • I'd never seen a dead person, but I was too afraid to go look for fear it would never leave my mind.
  • "That's our dog, Khamba," he said. "I figured we'd bring him along to watch the chickens and goats here."
  • I didn't earn enough from our repairs to keep buying [batteries]. Instead, we'd walk to the trading center and look for used cells that had been tossed in the waste bins.

Question 21

Question
True or False: An autobiography is written by the person the story is about. It is in the first person.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 22

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True or False. When documenting the design process, I should use literary style to document it.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 23

Question
Choose all the following answers that are correct for the following question: What did William do to further his studies?
Answer
  • He never stopped going to school.
  • He borrowed his friends notes.
  • He borrowed books from the library
  • He learns from his mistakes
  • He learns from a wiseman in his village.

Question 24

Question
Choose all of the correct answers for the following question: What does the windmill symbolize for William?
Answer
  • Freedom
  • Hope
  • Love
  • Honor
  • Education

Question 25

Question
How does Gilbert help William?
Answer
  • He helps William make the windmill blades.
  • He buys the dynamo for William.
  • Gilbert doesn't laugh at William's going to the scrapyard like everyone else.
  • He helps William build the tower.

Question 26

Question
Choose all the correct answers to the following questions: What analogies are from this story.
Answer
  • Khamba's ribs like blades.
  • The maize like the fruit of the Gods.
  • The famine like the plague.
  • The flies like flying diseases.
  • The windmill like a light bulb.

Question 27

Question
Choose all the correct answers for the following question: Which of the following could be considered a theme for this book?
Answer
  • It takes a community to achieve greatness
  • One can find freedom in education
  • Friendship
  • Failure breeds more failure
  • Freedom
  • Treasure can be made from things you least expect
  • Resources

Question 28

Question
Choose all the correct answers for the following: What did the scrapyard symbolize?
Answer
  • Garbage
  • Parts for his windmill
  • Treasure
  • Trash
  • Resources
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