ACT Week 4, BTS

Multiple Choice

How many passages and questions are on the ACT English section?

• 3 passages of ~20 questions each

• 4 passages of ~9 questions each

• 5 passages of ~10 questions each

• 6 passages of ~10 questions each

Multiple Choice

How many passages and questions are on the ACT Reading section?

• 4 passages of 9 questions each

• 5 passages of 10 questions each

• 5 passages of 15 questions each

• 6 passages of 8 questions each

Multiple Select

(Check all that apply)
Which of these are good strategies for the Reading section?

• Come up with a rough map of the passage

• Read and memorize all of the information

• Read the questions before you begin the text

• Try to analyze the text for symbolism and deeper meaning

• Work the passages starting with the hardest one first and save the easiest for last

Multiple Select

(Choose all that apply)
For the Reading section, POE stands for

• Point of Exception

• Path of Execution

• Piece of Evidence

• Process of Elimination

• Principle of Engagement

Multiple Select

(Choose all that apply)
Which of these are valid reasons to use a comma?

• You want to list out your deepest insecurities.

• You want to show the reader where to breathe so they don't pass out.

• You've run out of sprinkles for your doughnut and figure commas are a good substitute.

• You want to separate your bold, beautiful adjectives when they modify a single noun.

• You're letting your preposition or transition phrase take a short, well-deserved vacation from the rest of the sentence.

Multiple Choice

Which of these uses a colon correctly?

• If there was one punctuation mark that Jeremy hated, it was: the colon.

• Jeremy hated several punctuation marks, including: colons, semicolons, and em dashes.

• Jeremy learned to appreciate: the humble colon.

• Jeremy mastered every punctuation mark but one: the colon.

Multiple Choice

What is a semicolon?

• Half of a digestive organ

• a punctuation mark that sits between two complete sentences

• a punctuation mark exclusively used to list things

• a punctuation mark used to attach extra, dependent information to the end of an already-complete sentence

Multiple Select

Which of these are complete sentences?

• It's raining.

• The quick brown fox who jumped over the lazy dog.

• The new videogame, with over 180 hours of cut-scenes, releasing just this past week.

• Elephants never forget.

Multiple Select

Homework check: which of these were reading passages that appeared on your homework?

• a natural science passage about how sea lions manage to insulate themselves from the cold

• a discussion of crocodiles as "living fossils" and whether they still evolve genetically

• a writeup on the discovery of the number zero, including info on which societies discovered it and when

• an essay offering philosophical musings on photography, memory, and what photographs truly capture

• a discussion about how the game of Chess first arrived in Europe

Multiple Choice

Which of these is correctly punctuated?

• Sally sell's seashells by the sea shore.

• Sally's seashells' sheen is simply splendid.

• She sold seashell's since September second.

• Sally's seashell store shut it's doors after sixty-six years of business.

Multiple Choice

What's the fancy-sounding name for the little voice in your head that reads words aloud as you move through text?

• inspeakerance

• intervocalization

• infraphonic utterance

• subvocalization

Fill in the Blanks

Type a punctuation mark that could work in this sentence if inserted in the curly braces {}

John didn't bother writing his college essay{} Chat-GPT did most of the heavy lifting.

Multiple Select

(Choose all that apply)
Which of these are true?

• Em dashes (—) are always used in pairs.

• Commas are always used in pairs.

• Apostrophes are always used in pairs.

• Parentheses are always used in pairs.

Multiple Select

(Check all that apply)
Which of these use Em Dashes correctly?

• Zach—my cousin—is 28 years old.

• My cousin, Zach, is 28—years—old.

• At the beach—I met an unexpected celebrity—Tom Cruise.

• I ran to the park with Buddy—my pet rottweiler.

• The President—along with his favorite generals, waited in the War Room.

Multiple Select

Which of these statements are likely true?

• Students who study will ALWAYS do well on their exams.

• Students who study will USUALLY do well on their exams.

• If an answer choice on the ACT English has 7 commas, it is NEVER correct.

• If an answer choice on the ACT English has 7 commas, it is USUALLY NOT correct.

• To live a healthy life, you MUST do yoga.

Multiple Select

Which of the following have modifier errors?

• While eating a hamburger, Wendy's French fries really hit the spot.

• Smaller than a man's thumb, the scorpion was still surprisingly dangerous.

• Smaller than a man's thumb, the zookeeper knew that the scorpion's sting still packed a punch.

• Made out of perfectly chiseled marble and glittering copper, Bob was stunned speechless by the intricate statue.

• At over 21 km in height, Olympus Mons is the tallest volcano in our solar system.

Multiple Select

For which of these would it be valid to put a question mark at the end?

• Who even remembers what an indirect question is

• My brother Mark wants to know what an indirect question even is

• Mark asked a question about whether we should use question marks

• Should Mark be allowed to ask questions about question marks

• The question Mark asked made me wonder if I knew what a question was

Multiple Choice

Why should Target fire its sign-writer?

• "10" should be written as "ten"

• "or" should be replaced with "and"

• "less" should be replaced with "fewer"

• "items" should be written as "item's"

Multiple Choice

What word in this question should of been fixed before I published this quiz?

• What

• should

• of

• been