English 10 Midterm Review

English 10 Midterm Review

Midterm is Next Week!

You must be present in order to take the assessments.

• Block 2- Tuesday at 8:30

• Block 4- Tuesday at 10:30

Please take a moment to open the texts linked in canvas. They're under Quizizz Passages.

We will be using these two selections to review for the midterm.

Multiple Choice

What is the most likely reason baseball became more popular on schoolyards, college campuses, and in industrialized cities?

• There was adequate space to build baseball fields in these areas, which helped popularize it.

• People in these areas were more educated than others, so they could understand the rules of the game.

• Fields for other sports, such as cricket, were already built in other areas and baseball teams couldn’t use them.

• There were plenty of people in these areas to build teams of enough people in order to play.

Multiple Choice

What would be an appropriate heading for paragraphs 4-7?

• A History of The Knickerbockers

• The Real Story Behind Baseball

• The Influence of Cartwright

• Rules that Changed Baseball

Multiple Choice

Which statement best expresses the main idea of the passage?

• Alexander Joy Cartwright had a stronger influence on the creation of baseball than Abner Doubleday.

• Without the sport of cricket, the sport of baseball would never have been created.

• The New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club should get more recognition in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

• A. J. Spalding was not well-informed enough to be a strong source for creators of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Multiple Choice

By directly speaking to the audience, the author intends to—

• convince Doubleday supporters to buy more Spalding products.

• educate Doubleday supporters about the true origins of baseball.

• inform readers to learn more about cricket, a popular English sport

• gather support changing the location of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Multiple Choice

According to the passage, why would it have been impossible for Doubleday to have been the inventor of baseball?

• He was at West Point when he was supposedly in Cooperstown, New York organizing baseball games.

• Baseball actually originated in England, not Cooperstown, New York.

• Doubleday was only five years old when he was documented to have been present at the first baseball game.

• Baseball actually originated during the American Revolution of the late 1700s.

Multiple Choice

The author of the passage presents information that—

• cautions the public against believing everything they read/hear.

• suggests that Doubleday was the original creator of baseball.

• baseball originated in England and not America.

• Cartwright was influential in the creation of baseball.

Poem

Please scroll to the second page in the document you downloaded earlier and review the poem.

Multiple Choice

Why does the poet include the idiom, “my folks can make me split my side…” ?

• To inform the reader how they should get along with parents.

• To show the relationship between the parents and the child.

• To explain the relationship between the child and herself.

• To show the relationship between the mother and the child.

Multiple Choice

The author uses the hyperbole in the line “I almost laugh myself to death to—”

• Show life is full of humor.

• Show that her life has been difficult.

• Show that she enjoys a good joke.

• Show that she is looking forward to death.

Multiple Choice

The poet chooses to repeat the phrase “When I think about” in the poem to add a sense of –

• monotony.

• sadness.

• reflection.

• foreshadowing.

Multiple Choice

Which lines suggest the narrator is resilient?

• “When I think about myself/I almost laugh myself to death.”

• “I laugh so hard I almost choke/When I think about myself.”

• “I laugh until I start to crying/When I think about my folks.”

• “Too proud to bend/ too poor to break.”

Multiple Choice

The poet chooses to use the words “song” and “dance” to symbolize--

• death.

• fun.

• happiness.

• life.