Review for Final Exam

Which sentence is the correct way to cite the following sentence in MLA format a source in a text? The chronically undermanned fire department, already exhausted by the effort required to subdue the major blaze that had raged on the West Side only the previous evening, rushed at the first alarm to the soon-to-be infamous O’Leary barn.

• The firemen, tired from the West Side blaze the previous evening, rushed at the first alarm to the O’Leary’s barn. (27).

• Sawislak claims that the firefighters were “chronically undermanned” and “exhausted” from a major fire the night before.

• Tired from the previous night’s fire on the West Side, the small fire department responded to the call at the O’Leary barn (Sawislak 27).

• The undermanned and exhausted fire department rushed to the O’Leary barn at the first alarm.

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What is the best summary of the following sentences?

“When the flames reached the sixteen acres desolated the night before, the firemen hoped that the blaze might die for lack of fuel. This newly bare patch did act as a buffer zone, sparing the West Side from any further damage.”

• The wind blew the fire away from the West Side, which suffered no damage.

• A burned-out parcel of land prevented the fire from spreading to the West Side.

• The blaze died out in a sixteen-acre area, but then rekindled itself across the river.

• Firemen were incorrect; the fire spread to a buffer zone and caused more damage.

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The reader can infer from the lines below that firefighting equipment in the 1870s was ––

Within four hours of its humble genesis, the Great Fire became so large, so hot, and moved so quickly that firefighters and fire engines could not stand fast before it.

• Complex

• Nonexistent

• Effective

• Limited

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The author avoids plagiarism in the following sentence by ––

Thomas Mosher, Jr., the official weatherman of the city, described how the wind at ground level blew straight toward the center of the fire from all directions, resulting in “a decided whirling motion in the column of flame and smoke, which was contrary to the hands of a watch.”

• Citing an important statistic

• Paraphrasing and citing a direct quotation

• Crediting a book in parentheses

• Listing the source title and page number

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Based on the last three sentences in paragraph 3, the reader can conclude that Chicago’s downtown buildings were ––

The tremendous heat, moreover, often resulted in spontaneous combustions far in advance of any actual flames. In the face of such an intense blaze, mercantile buildings that had been touted as “fireproof ”—the downtown built mostly of brick and stone that was the pride and joy of city boosters—offered little more resistance than the wooden rookeries of Conley’s Patch. Bricks withstood the heat, but mortar dissolved, collapsing masonry walls. Throughout the center of the city, marble crumbled and iron melted.

• Never intended to resist significant fire damage.

• Built by the same architects who built Conley’s Patch.

• Less effective in resisting fire than people had supposed.

• Constructed before new building methods were developed.

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What is the best summary of the last two sentences in the excerpt?

At the northern limits of the city, four-and-one-half miles distant from its origins in Mrs. O’Leary’s barn, the Great Fire was finally extinguished near midnight. With only prairie grass and dried sod left for fuel, the holocaust would consume nothing more.

• Because of a wind change, only one building in the northern part of the city was damaged by the fire.

• Although the fire originated at the O’Leary’s barn, it spread to a radius of four and a half miles.

• With little fuel left, the fire burned out in the northernmost part of the city, four and a half miles from the O’Leary barn.

• Prairie grass and dried sod fueled the fire until it reached the northern city limits, where it was extinguished at midnight.

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What is the best question to narrow research on how the Great Fire started?

• Which types of materials are flammable?

• What was the major cause of the fire?

• ow many fires hit Chicago in 1871?

• Where is the O’Leary barn located?

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Which statement below is the best summary of the following sentence? When the fire first engulfed the two blocks, and the efforts of the undaunted engineers became palpably abortive to quench a single building, an effort was made to

head it off from the north, but so great was the area that it already covered at 10:30 o’clock, and so rapidly did it march forward, that by the time the engines were at work the flames were ahead of them, and again they moved on north.

• Unable to put out a single building fire, firefighters tried unsuccessfully to cut off the rapidly advancing fire from the north.

• Engineers tried to contain the fire in a two-block radius, but the fire continued to spread to the northern parts of the city.

• By 10:30, the fire had become too large for the firefighters to quench, so they decided to abandon their efforts.

• Firefighters were able to cut off the fire from the north, but the rest of the city was already burning beyond control.

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What is the BEST way to paraphrase the sentence below:

“With ample time to move all that was movable, and with a foreboding of what was coming, in their neighborhood at least, they were out and in safety long before the flames reached their dwellings.”

• The author says that residents had ample time to move their possessions out of their dwellings before the flames reached them.

• With “ample time to move all that was movable,” some residents fled to safety “before the flames reached their dwellings.”

• Many residents realized the danger and fled to safety with their possessions before the fire reached their dwellings.

• According to the author, many residents were able to escape with enough time to gather many of their possessions.

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What inference can the reader make from the sentence below:

“They were nearly all poor people, the savings of whose lifetime were represented in the

little mass of furniture which blocked the streets, and impeded the firemen.”

• In spite of the fire, people had confidence in their safety.

• The rapid advancement of the fire caught people by surprise.

• The residents were afraid to leave their homes.

• Furniture contributed to the difficulty of fighting the fire.

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