7th Grade Unit 3 Assessment Review

If you were researching climate change and you located an article that argued that climate change was not real, what would be the BEST way to question the conclusion of the article?

• A) Does the conclusion make me happy?

• B) Does the conclusion agree with other conclusions?

• C) Does the conclusion of the article use verifiable facts and good sources?

• D) . None of these questions would be appropriate to ask of a text like this.

Which piece of evidence supports the author's claim that "Careful, creative design is needed, however, to make roller coasters exciting yet safe as possible"?

• A) Back in the 1600's near the city of St. Petersburg in Russia, people used to build tall wooden slides and cover their surfaces with smooth ice.

• B) Historians disagree on whether the first official roller coaster was built in Russia in 1784 or in France in 1812.

• C) There are shoulder harnesses or bars that pull down securely across riders' torsos and legs, holding the riders securely in their seats.

• D) Believe it or not, most roller coasters cars have no engines.

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).

Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Vonnegut attended Cornell University but dropped out in January 1943 and enlisted in the United States Army. As part of his training, he studied mechanical engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and the University of Tennessee. He was then deployed to Europe to fight in World War II and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was interned in Dresden and survived the Allied bombing of the city by taking refuge in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned.

Vonnegut's breakthrough was his commercially and critically successful sixth novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. The book's anti-war sentiment resonated with its readers amidst the ongoing Vietnam War and its reviews were generally positive. After its release, Slaughterhouse-Five went to the top of The New York Times Best Seller list, thrusting Vonnegut into fame. He was invited to give speeches, lectures and commencement addresses around the country and received many awards and honors.

After reading this passage for a research assignment on the interaction between Kurt Vonnegut's life and his fiction, what might be a valid question to investigate?

• A) How many people were killed in the battle of Dresden?

• B) What sort of train accident caused the death of Vonnegut's brother-in-law?

• C) What other kind of novels do people who like science fiction novels also enjoy?

• D) How did Vonnegut's war experiences inform the content of his breakthrough novel, Slaughterhouse Five?

Which best shows a chronological organization of ideas?

• A) While some of the campers were very homesick, others of them did not miss being home at all.

• B) Some of the campers' eyes were stinging so badly because of all the smoke from the bonfire.

• C) After the campers had been taught water safety, they were allowed to go on the canoes with a buddy.

• D) When Janet complained of her sunburn, her counselor wisely suggested using some aloe lotion that night.

Which of these is the MOST logical organizational structure for a research project entitled "Roles of Women in the Twenty First Century: Education, Occupations, and Politics?"

• A) classification

• B) chronological order

• C) order of importance

• D) compare and contrast

A student is writing a report on the importance of proper footwear for running. Read the paragraph.

Running shoes do more than protect a runner's feet against the elements. They also support the body's weight and keep the body in the proper position. That is why it is important to get shoes that feel right for your body. One way to do that is by going to the store to have your stride and weight distribution analyzed.

Which sentence would add additional information to best develop the topic?

• A) When you are ready to make a purchase, there are three stores in town that sella variety of types and brands of running shoes to our athletes.

• B) When my brother went to find a new pair of running shoes, he told me that certain shoes made him feel like he was running on air.

• C) According to a report in the Journal of Sports medicine, it is important to try several shoes to determine which are the most comfortable.

• D) In order to keep up with all of the newest shoes on the market, a runner may want to subscribe to a publication like Runners'Weekly.

Which piece of evidence best supports the author's claim that "....it was in the United States that the modern-day coaster was born"?

• A) The Coney Island ride cost $1600 to build.

• B) A French roller coaster built in 1812 featured attached wheels and track wheels.

• C) A professor at the University of Houston sates that steel coasters are capable of going 125 miles per hour.

• D) People began riding downhill on a Pennsylvania coal train in 1827.

If the theme of a passage was a good idea can change a bad situation which sentence would best support that theme?

• A) He was already running late, and now he was going to have to reorganize all his index cards for the newscast.

• B) "It's OK," she said.

• C) He knew he should have put each complete report on just one card the way he usually did, but he wanted to make his handwriting big enough to read easily.

• "You saved the day in the end."

Read the sentences from the passage.

Gabe sat there feeling frozen, until Lani waved her arms at him frantically from the other side of the cameras, urging him to continue. She silently mouthed the words "Hurry up! We're live!"

What does the phrase "feeling frozen" suggest about Gabe?

• A) Gabe is hiding from others as joke.

• B) Gabe is concentrating on reporting the news.

• C) Gabe is shivering because he is cold.

• D) Gabe is sitting still because he is so nervous.

³ Come to La Grand Maison and take a step back in time. This extraordinary home, which was nearly demolished, has been closed to outsiders for one hundred years. During that time, none of the original artifacts—not a single valuable painting or priceless sculpture—were removed or altered. This gargantuan building is thirty thousand square feet, and its historical details allow visitors to travel back to the late 1800s, when the building was first constructed.

Which of these BEST describes the purpose of the advertisement (section three) included in the passage?

• A) to bore readers

• B) to persuade readers

• C ) to disgust readers

• D) to frighten readers