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Mock Essay Passage 3

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11th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In the passage, “There is one essential point wherein a political liar differs from others of the faculty [...] as he finds the persons disposed, with whom he has to deal,” the word “disposed” means...

Ready and inclined

Unwilling and stubborn

Prim and formal

Old and dated

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In the passage, “In describing the virtues and vices of mankind, it is convenient, upon every article, to have some eminent person in our eye.” the word “eminent” means...

Honorable

Distinguished

Dishonorable

Polite

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it” is an example of this rhetorical device.

Hyperbolic language

Visual juxtaposition

Allusion

Anecdote

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the tone of this passage, “There is one essential point wherein a political liar differs from others of the faculty; that he ought to have but a short memory”

Joking but vague

Superior but blunt

Direct but detached

Pragmatic but cynical

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

“... like a man who has thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed of the company parted: or, like a physician who has found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead,” is an example of which rhetorical device?

Analogy

Alliteration

Allusion

Anecdote

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In the passage, “Considering the natural disposition in many men to lie, and in multitudes to believe,” the word “disposition” means...

Profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity

A person's inherent qualities

Ingenuity or shrewdness

The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In the passage, “I think he cannot with any justice be taxed with perjury, when he invokes god and Christ, because he has often fairly given public notice to the world, that he believes in neither” the word “perjury” means…

The offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation.

An immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law.

The act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things.

Callous indifference

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.4

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