Praxis_ English Language Arts

Sonnet 18

Praxis_ English Language Arts. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: (5) Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, (10) Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. — William Shakespeare

Question 2

Which of the following best describes the speaker’s attitude toward the subject of the sonnet?

The speaker views the subject’s wistfulness as amusing.
The speaker understands that the subject is easily tempted.
The speaker believes that the subject will always be beautiful.
The speaker longs for a time when the subject was more youthful.

The Great Gatsby Passage

Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire. They were here—and they accepted Tom and me, making only a polite pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained. They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away. It was sharply different from the West where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, from The Great Gatsby

Question 3

The first sentence conveys that the overall mood of the dinner gathering is one of

gaiety and warmth
simmering resentment
stiffness and formality
casual indifference

Question 4

Which of the following is the best way of describing the last sentence of the passage?

It implies that the women have become more relaxed after leaving the West.
It demonstrates that the narrator feels uncertain of his social skills because he comes from the West.
It contrasts the women’s demeanor with the more anxious demeanor prevalent in the West.
It reveals that the narrator finds people in the West more engaging than he finds the two women.

Question 5

F. Scott Fitzgerald is most often associated with which of the following historical periods?

The Civil War era
The Roaring Twenties
The Great Depression
The post-World War II era

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. (5) Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. — Robert Frost

Question 6

Which of the following statements best explains the impact of figurative language in the highlighted line?

The use of personification suggests that nature is eternal.
The use of metaphor compares the beauty of today with how nature looked in the past.
The use of allusion helps emphasize the fleeting nature of beauty.
The use of imagery describes how nature looked in the past.

Student Excerpt

The dangers in the basement were like the dangers that await someone trapped in a monster’s lair. Kim was sure that the monster was just around the corner growling. The ceiling was crushing her and sucking the air out of her lungs. She knew that if she were to reach above her head, the stone ceiling would scratch her skin with its long sharp talons. As quickly as a jackrabbit, Kim moved forward. Suddenly, a loud crash startled her. Her mouth agape in horror, she screamed, but the basement air clasped her mouth silent and muffled the sound. Her blood ran as cold as ice. Kim reached forward and creaked open the refrigerator door, grabbed a soda, and slammed it shut before it had a chance to bite her.

Question 7

The excerpt contains which FOUR of the following types of figurative language? Praxis_ English Language Arts

Personification
Allusion
Simile
Imagery
Onomatopoeia

The Bell Jar Passage

I tried to imagine what it would be like if Constantin were my husband.

It would mean getting up at seven and cooking him eggs and bacon and toast and coffee and dawdling about in my nightgown and curlers after he’d left for work to wash up the dirty plates and make the bed, and then when he came home after a lively, fascinating day he’d expect a big dinner, and I’d spend the evening washing up even more dirty plates till I fell into bed, utterly exhausted.

This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A’s, but I knew that’s what marriage was like. — Sylvia Plath, from The Bell Jar

Question 8

Which of the following sentences best summarizes the narrator’s view of married life for women?

Married women unfortunately expend all of their energy on household duties.
Married women are overly dependent on their husbands for economic security.
Married women find fulfillment in caring for their homes and families.
Married women reject the traditional limitations on women’s roles.

Question 9

Which of the following statements best contextualizes the passage in historical and feminist literary theory?

The novel’s protagonist, Esther Greenwood, has many characteristics in common with Sylvia Plath, and some of the events depicted are autobiographical.
Sylvia Plath is best known as a poet; The Bell Jar is her only published novel.
The protagonist, Esther Greenwood, later has a breakdown and spends time in a psychiatric hospital, so her portrayal of events might not be reliable.
The Bell Jar is set in the early 1950s and was published in 1963, just before the emergence of the women’s liberation movement in the United States.

Question 10

An English teacher asks students to spend a short time writing down what they know about roles and expectations for young women during the time period in which the novel is set. The teacher then invites volunteers to share what they wrote with the class. Which of the following instructional strategies is the teacher using?

Visualization
Think-pair-share
Activating prior knowledge
Making predictions

Shatter Me Passage

(1) It smells like rain in the morning. (2) The room is heavy with the scent of wet stone, upturned soil; the air is dank and earthy. (3) I take a deep breath and tiptoe to the window only to press my nose against the cool surface. (4) Feel my breath fog up the glass. (5) Close my eyes to the sound of a soft pitter-patter rushing through the wind. (6) Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. (7) That I have one, too. (8) I always wonder about the raindrops. — Tahereh Mafi, from Shatter Me

Question 11

Which of the following sentences from the text best support the idea that the narrator fears becoming disconnected from the world?

Sentences 1 and 4
Sentences 2 and 3
Sentences 5 and 8
Sentences 6 and 7

Romeo and Juliet Passage

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows, As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. — William Shakespeare, from Romeo and Juliet

Question 12

The highlighted lines contain which TWO of the following literary devices? Praxis_ English Language Arts

Hyperbole
Euphemism
Personification
Simile
Paradox

Question 13

The tone of the passage can best be described as

blithe
flippant
serene
reverent

Question 14

Match each American author’s name to the literary movement with which the author’s works are most associated.

Romanticism: Emily Dickinson
Realism: Mark Twain
Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes
Gothic literature: Edgar Allan Poe
Naturalism: Jack London

Question 15

In a magazine advertisement for a sport-utility vehicle, which of the following elements best exemplifies an emotional appeal?

A chart with details about the vehicle’s safety features
Data showing that the vehicle’s fuel efficiency exceeds that of other SUVs
Pictures of the vehicle parked in a beautiful wooded area with a waterfall in the background
Labels pointing to specific physical features of the vehicle

Question 16

A high school English teacher wants students to understand how a specific community’s culture and historical experiences can shape the language and perspective of a literary work. Which of the following pairs of texts would be most appropriate for this purpose?

“The Weary Blues” (Langston Hughes) and Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
“The Raven” (Edgar Allan Poe) and The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“The Road Not Taken” (Robert Frost) and The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“O Captain! My Captain!” (Walt Whitman) and The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)

America

Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth! (5) Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, Giving me strength erect against her hate. Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood. Yet as a rebel fronts a king in state, I stand within her walls with not a shred (10) Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer. Darkly I gaze into the days ahead, And see her might and granite wonders there, Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand, Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.

—Claude McKay

Question 22

Which of the following most accurately identifies the speaker’s attitude toward America?

The speaker recognizes his defeat by America.
The speaker glorifies America’s many marvels.
The speaker feels both threatened and awed by America.
The speaker believes that America has a future that is brighter than its past.

Woodrow Wilson, from his first inaugural address

(1) At last a vision has been vouchsafed us of our life as a whole. (2) We see the bad with the good, the debased and decadent with the sound and vital. (3) With this vision we approach new affairs. (4) Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

(5) There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. (6) Our thought has been “Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,” while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves. (7) We had not forgotten our morals. (8) We remembered well enough that we had set up a policy which was meant to serve the humblest as well as the most powerful, with an eye single to the standards of justice and fair play, and remembered it with pride. (9) But we were very heedless and in a hurry to be great.

(10) We have come now to the sober second thought. (11) The scales of heedlessness have fallen from our eyes. (12) We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts. (13) Our work is a work of restoration.

Question 25

Which of the following best defines the highlighted word as it is used in the passage?

prophecy
eyesight
hallucination
perception

Which of the following provides the strongest evidence that Wilson understands the complexities of the nation’s needs?

Sentence 1
Sentence 4
Sentence 7
Sentence 10

Question 27

Which of the following statements best analyzes Wilson’s use of a rhetorical strategy?

He uses repetition to emphasize how a problem collectively arose in the country.
He uses satire to criticize the popular vision of the country.
He uses exaggeration to ignite the voters’ emotion of fear.
He uses rhetorical questioning to encourage his audience to ponder the future.

Question 28

Which of the following student responses best analyzes Wilson’s central argument in the passage?

Wilson believes that the country has thrived and brought security to future generations of citizens.
Wilson wants to honor the foundation from which the country originated by returning to its principles.
Wilson claims that the country should hasten its quest for industrial advancements to better citizens’ lives.
Wilson attempts to create a common pride in the country by arguing that it will always be great.

Question 29

Which of the following terms is used to refer to a section of text in a typical elegy?

Scene
Paragraph
Stanza
Chapter. Praxis_ English Language Arts

Joyce Carol Oates, from Essential Dickinson

Measured against verse characteristic of her era, Emily Dickinson’s poems constitute a kind of counterpoetry. Her miniaturist work is as radical and jarring as Cézanne’s landscapes would have seemed to nineteenth-century eyes enamored of the enormous, sublime landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, and the Hudson Valley School. Just as the adolescent Emily Dickinson dared to reject Christianity and, in a church-centered village society, declined to attend church services, so too in her art; though she was exceedingly well-read in poetry

(Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Shelley, Goethe, the Brownings, Tennyson, Longfellow, Bryant, Emerson, for instance, as well as lesser, popular poets of her day), she rejected any semblance of orthodoxy. The very look of many of Dickinson’s poems on the page is revolutionary: her seemingly breathless pauses and dashes, her odd, Blakean capitalizations, her disjointed phrases and radical variants of rhyme, rhythm, cadence—all point to a poet of unique, unnerving gifts.

Question 30

On the basis of the excerpt, it is most accurate to state that Oates views Dickinson’s poetry as

underrated by others
iconoclastic
limited in scope
antireligious

Question 31

After Oates makes a contention at the beginning of the paragraph, which of the following best describes the development of the rest of the excerpt?

A narration of a sequence of events that is summarized by a final thought
A discussion of a chain of causes and effects that is finalized by an overarching result
A presentation of relevant comparisons and examples that ends with a reasoned opinion
A list of scientific and historical facts that leads to an undeniable conclusion

Question 32

The strength of Oates’s argument depends on the assumption that her audience

finds poetry difficult to understand
is knowledgeable about Western art and culture
has more interest in Dickinson’s life than in her work
admires Dickinson’s work as much as Oates herself does

Question 33

Which of the following reading strategies most effectively engages students in metacognitive thinking while they are reading a new text?

Having students take turns reading aloud and answer fact-finding questions about the text
Dividing students into small silent-reading groups and having them write group answers to study guide questions about the text
Having students read along silently while the teacher reads aloud and then responding to reflective questions about the text
Directing students to alternate between choral reading and silent reading, pausing to make clear the transition between each type of reading

Jorge Luis Borges, from “The Book of Sand”

He suggested I try to find the first page.

I took the cover in my left hand and opened the book, my thumb and forefinger almost touching. It was impossible: several pages always lay between the cover and my hand. It was as though they grew from the very book.

“Now try to find the end.”

I failed there as well.

Question 34

Based on the events described in the excerpt, which of the following would most likely happen if the narrator attempted to mark a specific passage in the book?

The narrator would be unable to find and mark the correct page.
The man would prevent the narrator from marking the page.
The narrator would locate the passage but be unable to read and understand it.
The narrator would find the passage but would be physically unable to mark it.

Question 35

An English instructor who is teaching “The Book of Sand” has students pair off and spend five minutes trying to sketch the book described in the passage. The teacher then asks volunteers to present their sketches and explain the thought process that went into creating the sketches. Which of the following instructional strategies is the teacher using in the activity described?

Using a KWL chart
Making text-to-text connections
Visualizing
Activating prior knowledge

Question 36

Borges’ story “The Book of Sand” belongs to a literary genre characterized by detailed descriptions of seemingly ordinary scenes that include fantastical elements or impossible events. Which of the following is the name of the genre?

Black comedy
Historical fiction
Realistic fiction
Magic realism

Question 37

Before starting a new novel with students, a teacher asks the students to complete an anticipation guide. Students will decide whether they agree or disagree with opinion statements that touch on various themes of the novel. By completing this activity, students will be more prepared to

predict how the novel will conclude
apply background knowledge to the text
find textual evidence to support ideas
evaluate the strength of an argument in the text

Claudia Roth Pierpont, from Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World

The title The Story of an African Farm is misleading insofar as these words suggest a chronicle of activity and livelihood and social community, of the prospering interaction of man and land. Olive Schreiner’s geography was as alien to English expectations as the remotest reaches of empire would allow: no lowing in the pastures, no rosy dairymaids up to their elbows in curds and whey, but a measureless expanse of arid land burning under a blank sky.

Her African terrain was equally far from the beguiling exotic turquoise-and-gold of the leopard hunt. That sort of adventure was best written in Piccadilly, as Schreiner explained; the artist in Africa “must squeeze the colour from his brush, and dip it into the grey pigments around him.” Schreiner’s book was the first to place the landscape of the vast and barren South African karoo—like Emily Brontë’s moors or Willa Cather’s Southwestern mesas—on the map of literature.

Question 38

The author of the passage uses the quotation “must squeeze the colour from his brush, and dip it into the grey pigments around him” to

explain a challenge confronting English authors writing about Africa
question why most authors writing in Africa fail to appeal to English readers
illustrate the ways in which authors in Africa imitate the strategies of authors in England
suggest a way in which Schreiner’s writing might be made more attractive to English readers

Question 39

When preparing a short story text for a silent reading by students, a teacher inserts a reading comprehension question after every couple of paragraphs. By doing so, the teacher is helping the students to use which of the following reading comprehension strategies?

Visualizing
Inferencing
Monitoring understanding
Activating prior knowledge

Herman Melville, from Billy Budd

In this matter of writing, resolve as one may to keep to the main road, some bypaths have an enticement not readily to be withstood. I am going to err into such a bypath. If the reader will keep me company I shall be glad. At the least, we can promise ourselves that pleasure which is wickedly said to be in sinning, for a literary sin the divergence will be.

Question 40

The author of the passage suggests that he is about to

retire from writing to atone for a misdeed
temporarily change the subject of his writing
correct a mistake made in his previous writing
directly state his most controversial ideas

Question 41

Which of the following lists of authors is most appropriate for a unit on twenty-first-century poetry?

Elizabeth Acevedo, Kwame Alexander, and Claudia Rankine
Zadie Smith, Khaled Hosseini, and Sue Monk Kidd
Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Allen Ginsberg
Malcolm Gladwell, Jon Krakauer, and Laura Hillenbrand

Question 42

The following passage is from The Enigma Game by Elizabeth E. Wein.

“She was a telegraphist. She worked five years in a wireless exchange in Berlin when she was a girl, sending Morse code, before she became an opera singer.” Mrs. Campbell added hastily, “But that was more than sixty years ago, in the 1870s. Before the telephone—plenty of young ladies did the same! It’s not as if she was Mata Hari, taking messages and spying in the Great War!”

The details expressed in the passage are most characteristic of which of the following literary genres?

Science fiction
Historical fiction
Mystery
Fantasy

Question 43

The following is a list of characteristics of a literary form.

Tells a fictional story
Uses prose
Involves a short narrative
Has a limited number of subplots, if any

The list best describes which of the following literary forms?

A memoir
A one-act play
A romance
A novella

Question 44

The following passage is from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

“[Daisy’s] got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of—” I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it . . .”

The auditory imagery in the passage primarily shows that Daisy seems

accomplished
intense
candid
alluring

Question 45

The following passage is from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Which of the following literary devices does the narrator primarily rely on to express his need for change?

Simile
Allusion
Hyperbole
Personification

Question 46

At the beginning of a literature unit, a teacher has students fill out the “K” section of a KWL chart. Which of the following approaches to improving comprehension does this activity best exemplify?

Activating students’ prior knowledge
Teaching metacognitive strategies
Promoting students’ active reading
Modeling summarization skills

Question 47

The following passage is from “On Women’s Right to Vote” by Susan B. Anthony.

It was we, the people; not we, the White male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people—women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government—the ballot.

Which TWO of the following rhetorical strategies does Anthony rely on in the passage?

Using a satiric tone
Presenting a logical line of thinking
Invoking sympathy
Telling an engaging anecdote
Providing expert testimony

Question 48

My daughter wants to go to the movie theater on a school night, and she will arrive home an hour after her regular bedtime. Soon, she’ll want to stay out late every school night and want to come home after midnight on the weekends. Eventually, she will stay out for days at a time!

Which of the following logical fallacies is most apparent in the passage?

Red herring
Straw man
Slippery slope
Ad hominem

Question 49

Swimming along the poolside, the children laughed and splashed each other because they were excited.

Which of the following sentence structures is used in the sentence?

Simple
Complex
Compound
Compound-Complex

PART TWO

Question 6

A teacher presents the following list of words to students.

cautious curious ambitious conscientious

Which of the following best explains the meaning of the suffix used in the words?

Act or process of
Art or skill of
Having knowledge of
Possessing the quality of

Question 7

TV news anchors, who do no actual reporting from the field, do not deserve to be called journalists.
TV news anchors who do no actual reporting from the field do not deserve to be called journalists.

Which of the following best describes the meaning of sentence 1? Praxis_ English Language Arts

Any TV news anchor who does not report from the field deserves to be called a journalist.
No TV news anchor deserves to be called a journalist.
Only TV news anchors who report from the field deserve to be called journalists.
A journalist is someone who primarily does actual reporting from the field.

Question 8

TV news anchors, who do no actual reporting from the field, do not deserve to be called journalists.
TV news anchors who do no actual reporting from the field do not deserve to be called journalists.

Which of the following describes the meaning of sentence 2?

Any TV news anchor who does not report from the field deserves to be called a journalist.
No TV news anchor deserves to be called a journalist.
Only TV news anchors who report from the field deserve to be called journalists.
A journalist is someone who does actual reporting from the field.

Question 9

TV news anchors, who do no actual reporting from the field, do not deserve to be called journalists.
TV news anchors who do no actual reporting from the field do not deserve to be called journalists.

Sentences 1 and 2 illustrate the difference between

Nonrestrictive and restrictive clauses
Appositives and parenthetical remarks
Parallel and nonparallel sentence constructions
Factual and opinion-based statements

Question 10

The following is an excerpt from a draft of a student’s essay.

Social media is everywhere, and it has opened the world up to better global communication. Young people love to use it to stay in touch with friends, to express themselves, and to learn about the world. However, many people believe that social media may have a negative effect on young people. Studies are being done on the positives and negatives of social media. Although it is difficult to get consistent data about the impact of social media on today’s youth.

The draft contains which of the following errors?

Faulty parallelism
Dangling modifier
Missing commas
Sentence fragment

Question 14

Although I cherish many people, nothing compares to my love and admiration for my parents, Virginia Woolf, and Albert Einstein.

Which of the following statements best explains one of the functions of the commas in the sentence?

A comma is used to avoid a run-on sentence.
A comma sets apart a prepositional phrase.
A comma sets apart a nonessential identifier.
A comma is used to separate nouns in a list.

Question 15

The following passage is from Brown Wolf by Jack London.

“I guess I ain’t used much to the warm,” he vouchsafed half apologetically. “I’m more accustomed to zero weather.”

In the first sentence of the passage, the highlighted word “warm” functions as which of the following parts of speech?

Conjunction
Noun
Adverb
Verb

Question 16

Which of the following best describes a function of the dialect in the passage from Brown Wolf?

It emphasizes that Skiff is an outsider to the area.
It helps the reader identify the characters’ personality traits.
It suggests that Skiff feels comfortable talking to Walt and Madge.
It establishes the geographical region in which the story takes place.

Question 17

In which of the following words does the prefix “mis-” mean “opposite,” “wrong,” or “bad”?

Select ALL that apply.

[x] Mistrial
[ ] Miscible
[x] Misguided
[ ] Miscellaneous
[x] Misappropriate

Question 18

Unlike our tame cat, the feral cat wouldn’t let us get anywhere near him, let alone pet him.

Which of the following types of context clues is present in the sentence to help the reader understand the meaning of the underlined word, “feral”?

Example
Contrast
Definition
Synonym

Question 19

Which of the following sections of a book is allocated for information that is related to a book’s topic, such as a map in a history book?

Glossary
Appendix
Index
Preface

Question 20

A teacher has students create new words using the nonsense root word “glorph” to demonstrate their understanding of suffixes. Which of the following student-created words means “full of glorph”?

Glorphation
Glorphacious
Glorphary
Glorphoid

Question 21

The following is an excerpt from a student’s narrative.

Matt made the wrong decision when he went down a badly mapped road. He got lost because there were no street signs. When he realized what he had done wrong, he began to have a feeling that something bad was about to happen.

Which of the following reference materials will best help the student to improve the writing?

A dictionary
A thesaurus
A glossary
A grammar manual

Question 22

Which of the following sentences are compound sentences?

Select ALL that apply.

Lisa stopped at the dry cleaner on her way home, and she also went to the bank.
If you go to the laundromat, could you also pick up some bread at the supermarket?
Since there is rain forecast for tomorrow, it is unlikely we will go to the park.
Lana, Mark, and Helen are coming over for dinner on Friday.
I lost my hat on the trip, but I did not lose my gloves.

Question 23

Since I was seeking a quiet place to read, I wanted to sit near the back of the building, but the repugnant smell from the garbage dumpster made me look elsewhere.

Based on context clues, which of the following is most nearly synonymous with the underlined word, “repugnant”? Praxis_ English Language Arts

Indifferent
Contradictory
Hostile
Offensive

Question 24

The following passage is from Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh.

Cook settled herself with a cup of coffee. “How long you been a spy?” “Since I could write. Ole Golly told me if I was going to be a writer I better write down everything, so I’m a spy that writes down everything.” “Hmmmmmmmmph.” Harriet knew the cook couldn’t think of anything to say when she did that. “I know all about you.” “Like fun, you do.” The cook looked startled. “I do too. I know you live with your sister in Brooklyn and that she might get married and you wish you had a car and you have a son that’s no good and drinks.” “What do you do, child? Listen at doors?” “Yes,” said Harriet.

What does the cook mean when she tells Harriet in the middle of the passage, “Like fun, you do”?

“You spy on people and write things down for fun.”
“You don’t really know all about me, I’m certain.”
“You write about people so you can make fun of them.”
“You are a silly girl who enjoys frivolous activities.”

Question 25

A student is reading a textbook in which there are many unfamiliar, subject-specific terms. Which of the following reference materials would be most useful in determining the meanings of these words?

A glossary
A dictionary
An almanac
An index

Question 26

Which of the following best defines the prefix in the word “recurrence”?

Back
Again
Action
Process

Question 33

The following excerpt is from The American Nation by John A. Garraty.

The total of all his opposition was formidable, but [BLANK], and unorganized. Andrew Jackson, however, brought it together, and when he did the Bank was quickly destroyed.

Which TWO of the following statements best describe the word missing from the excerpt?

The word names a form of “opposition.”
The word is similar in meaning to “unorganized.”
The word provides a contrast to “total.”
The word describes “opposition.”
The word is a synonym of “formidable.”

Question 34

The following passage is from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches. “Ah know exactly what Ah got to tell yuh, but it’s hard to know where to start at.” “…Mah grandma raised me. Mah grandma and de…folks she worked wid. She had a house out in de back-yard and dat’s where Ah wuz born.”

Which of the following statements analyzes the author’s use of dialect?

It reveals the character’s emotional state.
It establishes the age of the character.
It enhances the character’s storytelling ability.
It creates a more realistic character.

Question 35

A class is preparing for a reading assignment that has some words that could be unfamiliar to English learners. Which of the following research-based strategies is the most appropriate way to help all students understand the reading assignment?

Preteaching the unfamiliar words
Posting the unfamiliar words on a word wall
Asking students to annotate the unfamiliar words while they read
Having students create drawings of the unfamiliar words before they read

Question 36

After students have read and discussed several informational texts about amphibians, a teacher introduces new, more precise terms to describe specific aspects of the various species and their habitats. A primary benefit of this strategy is that it provides students with opportunities to

understand how the terms are used across content areas
see the terms in context for better understanding
encounter and interact with the terms multiple times
connect the terms to existing knowledge

Question 37

Students are presented with a map of the United States documenting regional variations in the use of the words “soda” and “pop” to designate soft drinks. Which of the following does the activity best demonstrate?

Jargon
Slang
Dialect
Jingoism

Question 38

Unlike deciduous trees, evergreens retain their leaves all year long.

A high school language arts teacher is encouraging students to apply a variety of vocabulary strategies to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words whenever they read informational text. Which strategy should students apply to understand the word “deciduous” in the sentence?

Using suffixes
Using context clues
Checking for ambiguity
Understanding figures of speech

Question 39

Which of the following describes a primary purpose of administering a cloze passage assessment of a particular text?

To predict a student’s ability to read fluently based on the pronunciation of words
To predict a student’s ability to comprehend a text while reading independently
To determine a student’s achievement and progress over an extended period of time
To determine a student’s ability to segment and blend individual sounds in words

Question 34

The following passage is from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

Which of the following statements analyzes the author’s use of dialect?

It reveals the character’s emotional state.
It establishes the age of the character.
It enhances the character’s storytelling ability.
It creates a more realistic character.

Question 35

Preteaching the unfamiliar words
Posting the unfamiliar words on a word wall
Asking students to annotate the unfamiliar words while they read
Having students create drawings of the unfamiliar words before they read

Question 36

understand how the terms are used across content areas
see the terms in context for better understanding
encounter and interact with the terms multiple times
connect the terms to existing knowledge

Question 37

Jargon
Slang
Dialect
Jingoism. Praxis_ English Language Arts

Question 38

Unlike deciduous trees, evergreens retain their leaves all year long.

Using suffixes
Using context clues
Checking for ambiguity
Understanding figures of speech

Question 39

Which of the following describes a primary purpose of administering a cloze passage assessment of a particular text?

To predict a student’s ability to read fluently based on the pronunciation of words
To predict a student’s ability to comprehend a text while reading independently
To determine a student’s achievement and progress over an extended period of time
To determine a student’s ability to segment and blend individual sounds in words

Question 40

While reading an unfamiliar informational text with a group of English learners, the teacher asks students to identify unknown or confusing words. Which of the following statements best explains how the strategy supports students’ understanding of the text? Praxis_ English Language Arts

Students identifying vocabulary words are able to use imagery during the reading to reinforce comprehension.
Students reading a new informational text become familiarized with grammar rules in formal writing.
Students who are encouraged to think about what they do and do not know are practicing metacognition.
Students who become familiar with the meanings of new words can better understand roots and affixes.

Question 41

Which of the following is a run-on sentence?

Travelers often forget to bring a toothbrush, so many hotels offer them as complimentary items.
Neutral colors, such as gray, navy blue, and beige, make good choices for the dominant color in rugs or window coverings.
Jemma loves hiking in the desert at dawn, she would go every morning if she had the time and a constant companion.
Split-screen technology allows newscasters to remain on screen while events or guests are also projected to the audience.

Question 42

A professor from the local university presented a speech about communication and languages spoken by bilingual people in the countries of the Western Hemisphere.

Which of the following words from the sentence contains an affix meaning “half”?

“university”
“communication”
“bilingual”
“Hemisphere”

Question 43

The following passage is from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

He kept a-looking me all over. By and by he says: “Starchy clothes—very. You think you’re a good deal of a big-bug, don’t you?” “Maybe I am, maybe I ain’t,” I says. “Don’t you give me none o’ your lip,” says he. “You’ve put on considerable many frills since I been away. […] You’re educated, too, they say—can read and write.”

Which of the following best explains what the author is accomplishing through the passage?