Writing Workshop: Argumentative Essay — Unit test Answers

Choose the correct version of the sentence.

Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on.“You know the place is doing you good,” he said, “and really, dear, I don’t care to renovate the house just for a three months’ rental.”Based on this excerpt, which statement best describes John’s viewpoint of the wallpaper?

Read the excerpt from President Woodrow Wilson’s speech, “War Message to Congress.”Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved and the freedom of its peoples, and the menace to that peace and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic governments backed by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not by the will of their people. Which best explains President Wilson’s use of the word “autocratic”?

Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."We keep the wall between us as we go.To each the boulders that have fallen to each.And some are loaves and some so nearly ballsWe have to use a spell to make them balance:"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"We wear our fingers rough with handling them.Oh, just another kind of out-door game,One on a side. It comes to little more:There where it is we do not need the wall:He is all pine and I am apple orchard.What feature of this excerpt makes it blank verse?

Which statement best describes the main idea of the third paragraph of "How We Entered World War I"?

Read the example sentence.Since the taxis and buses were out of service, the tourist town decided to begin using rickshaws, which were inexpensive, relied primarily on physical strength, and led to a new source of employment.Based on the context, what is the meaning of rickshaws?

Read the final paragraph of "How We Entered World War I."In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed. America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence. That screen, too, must fall.Which best explains the purpose of repeating the word “illusion” in the paragraph?

Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall," by Robert Frost.Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,And spills the upper boulders in the sun;And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.What is Frost describing that “doesn’t love a wall”?

Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonderIf I could put a notion in his head:“Why do they make good neighbours? Isn’t itWhere there are cows? But here there are no cows.Before I built a wall I’d ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offence.Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,That wants it down.” I could say “Elves” to him,But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d ratherHe said it for himself.What is the speaker’s mood in this excerpt?

What does the narrator’s description of the wallpaper in "The Yellow Wallpaper" reveal about her worldview?

Read the example sentence and study the chart of definitions.It wasn’t until Diego missed a bus to help me finish the chores that I realized how unselfish he truly was.

Miguel is taking notes of the mayor’s speech. As he is taking notes, Miguel should

Read the example sentence and study the chart of word parts.Javed constantly tries to aggrandize his family, always depicting them as heroes.

Which topic would prompt an argumentative essay?

Which prefixes would most likely be used in a word where the definition involved something exaggerated? Select three options.