Main Idea & Supporting Details #2

Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a characteristic of Penguin Classics and Anchor Books?

• They were relatively inexpensive .

• They were intended for college students.

• They were printed editions of classic works

• They dealt primarily with nonfiction.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

According to the passage, the event that made it possible for large numbers of discharged military personnel to go to college was the-

• end of World War II

• shift in postwar culture

• passage of the G.I. Bill

• diminished importance of fiction

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

According to the passage, by 1962 the publishing industry was distributing:

• more new fiction titles than nonfiction titles

• more new titles than titles of classical works

• more titles of classical works than new titles

• more new nonfiction titles than fiction titles

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

According to the passage, after World War II, Pocket Books had

• a thousand outlets

• more than a hundred thousand outlets

• more outlets than Penguin Classics

• fewer outlets than Anchor Books

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

According to the passage, lift is created by a difference

• in air pressure

• between air and ground speed

• in the altitude of the aircraft

• in the size of a fixed wing

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

According to the passage, an airplane wing is

• longer on top than on the bottom

• flatter on the bottom than on top

• more curved at the end than near the plane

• the same on both top and bottom.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1