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  Quiz: Using Context Clues and Word Parts Directions: Use one of the word parts below to fill in the blanks and create a word that fits the context.               jec/ject (to throw)                                                       mis/miso (to hate)             junc/junct (to join)                                                      mono (one)             gen/gene (production, formation, origin, cause)              The airplane crash resulted from a weak ____________________ture point where the craft’s tail attached to the fuselage.

An eighteenth-century Protestant revival that emphasized individual, experiential faith over church doctrine and the close study of scripture

  Directions: Choose the appropriate answer to identify the pattern or patterns in each reading. Dogs are mammals, so are squirrels and people. Because mammals come in a bewildering variety of sizes and shapes, the question is what characteristics define the class known as mammals? The answer to that question has several parts because mammals have a number of defining characteristics. Mammals are vertebrates. That means they have a backbone. Mammals are also warm-blooded, have lungs, and breathe in air. Mammals are the only animals with real hair and the ability to produce milk. A mammal’s heart and lungs are divided from the stomach by a wall of muscle called the diaphragm. Mammals also have different types of teeth that are appropriate for different uses. Then, too, and not to be forgotten, mammal brains are more highly developed than the brains of other animals.

Which of the following is the term for mixing together the amalgam alloy and liquid into the amalgam material for use in a restoration?

  Quiz 2: Effective and Ineffective Paraphrasing Directions: Read each passage. Then select the letter of the best paraphrase.     Dean Kamen, award-winning inventor, has created a new battery-powered personal transportation device called the Segway Human Transporter. This device averages eight miles an hour, which is three times faster than walking pace, weighs only sixty-five pounds, and runs about fifteen miles for the cost of about ten cents’ worth of electricity. Mr. Kamen says that the Segway could cause cities to be redesigned, help wean the world from oil dependence, compress time and space for pedestrians, and raise productivity for corporations and government agencies.   (Adapted from Amy Harmon, “An Inventor Unveils His Mysterious Personal Transportation Device,”  The New York Times, Dec. 3, 2001, www.nytimes.com.) Paraphrase

Directions: Read and select whether the comparison being made uses a simile, metaphor or personification.   “As my mother taught me, life is a marathon.”  (Maria Shriver)

  Quiz: Using Context Clues and Word Parts Directions: Use one of the word parts below to fill in the blanks and create a word that fits the context.               jec/ject (to throw)                                                       mis/miso (to hate)             junc/junct (to join)                                                      mono (one)             gen/gene (production, formation, origin, cause)              No one really knows the ____________________sis of the legend; its origins are lost in the dim past.

  Directions:  Choose the appropriate answer to identify the pattern or patterns in each reading.   Nortec is a style of electronic music popular among young people who frequent Tijuana nightspots. The world is derived from norte, northern Mexico, and techno, or electronic music. Nortec blends complex electronic rhythms with traditional Mexican variations of the polka and waltz. The sounds of accordions, drums, and tubas dominate the music, which is said to capture the unique cultural flavor of Tijuana. Nortec contains few lyrics. Instead the emphasis is on a high-volume, pulsating beat that inspires energetic dancing.

  Quiz 2: Effective and Ineffective Paraphrasing Directions: Read each passage. Then select the letter of the best paraphrase.     Jet travel has altered the way Americans lived and thought more than anything else, including the Internet. By enhancing mobility, jets—like railroads in the nineteenth century—advanced a truly national market. They made it possible for Disney World and Las Vegas to become national destinations, and they allowed Harvard to recruit from the West Coast and Stanford from the East. (Adapted from Robert J. Samuelson, “Requiem for the Jet Age?” Newsweek, November 26, 2001, p. 61.) Paraphrase

  Directions: Choose the appropriate letter to indicate the conclusion that can be drawn from each passage.     In his book Luxury Fever, author Robert H. Frank asks us to imagine two parallel universes, two societies that are isolated from another but alike in all respects except for one: everyone in Society A lives in a 4,000-square-foot house, and everyone in Society B lives in a 3,000-square-foot house. He also asks us to imagine that the people who live in Society B used the resources they saved by building smaller houses to improve their overall living conditions by funding the construction of high-speed public transportation. Therefore, when the residents of Society B leave their 3,000-square-foot houses to go to work, they face a hassle-free, fifteen-minute commute. Meanwhile, the residents of Society A, who poured all of their resources into an extra 1,000 square feet of living space, face a grueling, one-hour long automobile commute through heavy traffic, a stressful activity that has been shown to cause significant mental and physical damage. What Frank wants to know is this: In which society would you choose to live? (Source of information: Robert H. Frank, “How Not To Buy Happiness,” Daedalus, Vol. 133, Issue 2.) From this passage, a reader might logically draw which conclusion?