Most Missed MOY Questions

Most Missed Questions on the MOY

Poll

The thing that stresses me out the most about tests is...

• Reading the passages

• Poetry

• Not knowing what the questions mean

• Overthinking all my answers

• Something else

Poll

The skill I feel the MOST confident in out of the skills listed is...

• Inference

• Theme

• Central Idea

• Vocabulary Context Clues

• Text Evidence

Poll

The skill I feel the LEAST confident in out of the skills listed is...

• Inference

• Theme

• Central Idea

• Vocabulary

  Context Clues

• Text Evidence

Open Ended

Restate the question "How does the section titled "Settling the Prairie" contribute to the development of ideas in the text?" in your own words...

Multiple Choice

How does the section titled "Settling the Prairie" contribute to the development of ideas in the text?

• By illustrating the advantages of the Midwest, from the free government homes to free land.

• By providing background on the Midwest, including it's population makeup before the 1800s.

• By describing how families moved to the Midwest, and created the need for practical farming tools.

• By summarizing people's experiences in the Midwest that prompted them to return to the East Coast.

Open Ended

Restate the question "What can the reader infer about the narrator based on his description of the changing neighborhood" in your own words...

Multiple Choice

Read the excerpt from paragraph 32.

The building where I once went to school is now a shopping mall, and the old bakery across the block has been consumed by newer, bigger building facades. It’s like the creep of mold over an apple.

What can the reader infer about the narrator based on his description of the changing neighborhood?

• He is surprised that companies would want to build in his old neighborhood.

• He disapproves of the new buildings and businesses in his old neighborhood.

• He thinks it is time the spaces in his old neighborhood were put to different uses.

• He does not know how to feel about his old neighborhood’s recent improvements.

Open Ended

Restate the question "What does the word

prospective

communicate to the reader about the students?" in your own words...

Multiple Choice

Read the excerpt from paragraph 12.

"Then, in November 1868, the Blackwell sisters opened the Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary. Its faculty included both men and women. To guarantee prospective students’ success there, the Blackwell's required entrance exams."

What does the word "prospective" communicate to the reader about the students?

• They are promised a spot at the medical school.

• They might possibly be admitted to the medical school.

• They view medical school in a different way than other students.

• They have already passed medical exams before applying to the school.

Open Ended

Restate the question "Which quotation supports the inference that the speaker views the clouds as powerful?" in your own words

Multiple Choice

Which quotation supports the inference that the speaker views the clouds as powerful?

• “That seem’st, like a lonely bird, to fly

  To some distant home, o’er the clear, blue sky?” (lines 3–4)

• “Defying this valley of shadow and blight

  To sully or wither their leaves of light!” (lines 11–12)

• “That their garments must be of a spotless white

  Before they can enter a world of light!" (lines 23-24)

• “Their forms are varying, high and fair;

  But melted by light—rent in pieces by air!” (lines 31–32)

Open Ended

Restate the question "In which way does this comparison help the reader develop a sense of setting?"

Multiple Choice

Read lines 13–14 of the poem.

"I’ve seen thee, too, pass over my head,

Like a beautiful ship with her sails all spread,"

In which way does this comparison help the reader develop a sense of setting?

• It helps the reader predict what the sky might look like the following day.

• It reinforces for the reader the idea that the clouds are drifting and not still.

• It gives the reader an understanding of the time of day at which the poem takes place.

• It suggests to the reader that the speaker was lying on the ground while cloud-watching.

Open Ended

Restate the question "What is the author’s purpose for writing this text?" in your own words

Multiple Choice

What is the author’s purpose for writing this text?

• to encourage an interest in science in other high school students

• to persuade readers to consider ways they can conserve water

• to explain how a teenager developed a solution to a significant agricultural problem

• to describe the process of germination where a seed develops into a seedling