Practice Test Answers

Read the claim. Arts education should be considered a crucial part of the curriculum for students in K-12. Studies have shown that students who study the arts perform much better in school overall. Which evidence best supports this claim?

Which excerpt from Winona LaDuke’s "A Case for Waawaatesi” best appeals to readers’ logic?

Read the excerpt from "A Case for Waawaatesi." Nocturnal animals sleep during the day and are active at night. Light pollution radically alters their world by turning night into day. The purpose of this excerpt is to appeal to readers’

Which detail from "To Build a Fire" best supports the idea that most of the real Yukon prospectors had little experience for surviving in cold weather?

Which statement is true about the prospectors of the Klondike Gold Rush and the main character of "To Build a Fire"?

Read the excerpt from Part 2 of “To Build a Fire.” When all was ready, the man reached in his pocket for a second piece of birch bark. He knew the bark was there, and, though he could not feel it with his fingers, he could hear its crisp rustling as he fumbled for it. Try as he would, he could not clutch hold of it. And all the time, in his consciousness, was the knowledge that each instant his feet were freezing. This thought tended to put him in a panic, but he fought against it and kept calm. This conflict occurs in the plot’s

Read the passage from Part 1 of “To Build a Fire.” Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-traveled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. It was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. It was nine o'clock. There was no sun nor hint of sun, though there was not a cloud in the sky. What excerpt from the passage reveals the location of the story?

Read the passage from Part 1 of “To Build a Fire.” The animal was depressed by the tremendous cold. It knew that it was no time for travelling. Its instinct told it a truer tale than was told to the man by the man's judgment. In reality, it was not merely colder than fifty below zero; it was colder than sixty below, than seventy below. It was seventy-five below zero. Since the freezing point is thirty-two above zero, it meant that one hundred and seven degrees of frost obtained. The dog did not know anything about thermometers. Possibly in its brain there was no sharp consciousness of a condition of very cold such as was in the man's brain. But the brute had its instinct. How does this setting detail advance the plot?