Multiple Choice

Amanda needs to establish a more effective position in her letter.  Which rewrite of sentence 1 can BEST accomplish this goal?

• The Benson County Museum is in need of additional funding in order to remain open.
• The Benson County Museum is falling apart.
• The Benson County Museum receives many visitors during the year.
• The Benson County Museum shows the long and varied history of the people of Benson County.

Amanda would like to tell more about the idea she expressed in sentence 5.  Which sentence could BEST follow and support sentence 5?

• The classes help students conduct tours of the museum.
• Many of the older students have been to the museum before.
• Special instructors prepare the mentors to help at the museum through the months of January to May.
• The museum has hosted people interested in trains from all around the world.

Which sentence in the fifth paragraph should be deleted?

• Railroad engines were invented more than a hundred years ago.
• Thousands of volunteer hours helped restore the old engine to its original condition.
• Many additional hours are donated each year to keep the vintage railway engine and cars in good working order.
• Other volunteers help run the train during the year providing riders a brief glimpse into what it was like to ride the rails one hundred years ago.

Sentence 13 is unclear because Amanda has chosen an inappropriate word.  What change should Amanda make to improve this sentence?

• Change It to The engine
• Change railroad to museum
• Change piece to condition
• Change museum to town

Amanda would like to add the following sentence to the sixth paragraph (sentences 17-20)
The building is more than one hundred years old and in need of extensive maintenance, repairs, and several renovations.
Which is the BEST place to insert this sentence?

• After sentence 17
• After sentence 18
• After sentence 19
• After sentence 20

Amanda has used a poor choice of words in sentence 25.  She should change stuff to...

• things.
• project.
• procedures.
• fund.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 6?

• Change mentoring to mentored
• Change ourselves to themselves
• Change that to whose
• Make no change

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 8?

• Change classes to clases
• Change were to was
• Insert a comma after children
• Make no change

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 13?

• Change was to has
• Change by to buy
• Change then to than
• Make no change

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 22?

• Change interruption to interrupsion
• Insert a comma after or
• Delete no
• Make no change