ELA 10 - Unit Test Review 2023
Which ideas from the excerpt would be most appropriate to include in a summary? Select TWO options.
Read the excerpt from
... [Show More] a speech to the school board about the art department.
Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human. So many things try to push their way into being more
important. We need to refocus ourselves and reevaluate our priorities. We should not cut the funding to the
school's art department, because the students will suffer. Everyone thinks that art class is just fun and
games. We always think that we need to prioritize everything else first. But it is everything else that will
suffer when we lack art and beauty in our lives.
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A) "Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human."
B) "We should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer."
C) "We need to refocus ourselves and reevaluate our priorities."
D) "Everyone thinks that art class is just fun and games."
E) "But it is everything else that will suffer when we lack art and beauty in our lives." - Correct Answer-A)
"Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human."
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B) "We should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer."
Which statement best explains the use of rhetoric in this paragraph?
Read the excerpt from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech.
Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any
city in Germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns
of park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities,
orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's
abundance.
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A) Reagan uses repetition to focus attention on history.
B) Reagan uses hasty generalizations to encourage hope.
C) Reagan uses parallelism to compare the past to the present.
D) Reagan uses hyperbole to emphasize changes that have taken place. - Correct Answer-C) Reagan
uses parallelism to compare the past to the present.
Which type of appeal is used in this part of the speech?
Read the excerpt from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech.
While we pursue these arms reductions, I pledge to you that we will maintain the capacity to deter Soviet
aggression at any level at which it might occur. And in cooperation with many of our allies, the United
States is pursuing the Strategic Defense Initiative—research to base deterrence not on the threat of
offensive retaliation, but on defenses that truly defend; on systems, in short, that will not target populations,
but shield them. By these means we seek to increase the safety of Europe and all the world.
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A) an emotional appeal
B) an ethical appeal
C) an expert appeal
D) a logical appeal - Correct Answer-D) a logical appeal
Which sentence from Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech is the best example of hyperbole?
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A) "I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in the shadow of this wall, a message of triumph."
B) "The sign read simply: 'The Marshall Plan is helping here to strengthen the free world.'"
C) "Throughout the Pacific, free markets are working miracle after miracle of economic growth."
D) "In Europe, only one nation and those it controls refuse to join the community of freedom." - Correct
Answer-C) "Throughout the Pacific, free markets are working miracle after miracle of economic growth."
Which statement best describes Reagan's main message for his audience in this excerpt?
Read the passage from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech.
Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any
city in Germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns
of park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities,
orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's
abundance. . . . From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once
again ranks as one of the greatest on earth. . . .
In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you." But in the West today, we see a free world that has
achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world,
we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic
kind—too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then,
there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity.
Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.
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A) The Berlin Wall is a reminder of the past and of the war.
B) The United States is more powerful than the Soviet Union.
C) Democracy leads to greater prosperity than communism does.
D) Berlin is a thriving city that can boast of many accomplishments. - Correct Answer-C) Democracy leads
to greater prosperity than communism does.
Which statement from the passage best summarizes the central idea in this excerpt?...
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