Test Question Challenge ELA10 3.5

When a question asks "Which of the following best describes the tone of the piece? " it's asking....

• for how the poem or story sounds

• the setting

• how the author feels about the subject

• which of the following options shows how the author feels about the subject

The question " Which of the following quotes best supports your response to Part A?" means....

• which of these quotes supports the main idea

• which of these quotes is the best supporting detail for your answer to part A

• Which of these quotes goes best with your answer to part A

• Which of these quotes is the opposite of part A

Which of the following quotes would communicate the author's conflicted tone?

• 'able to order in fluent Spanish”

• “drafting memos in smooth English”

• "viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic”

• “sliding back and forth between the fringes of both worlds”

RI.2.5

When a question asks

How does paragraph 5 contribute to the development of ideas in the text? They want to know....

• How does the text help tell the story better

• How a portion of the text helps to show the growth of ideas from one point in story to another

• They want to know paragraph 5 makes you feel

• They want to know how paragraph helps the reader understand how the story builds up from one part of the story to another

In a question like

How does the author develop the idea that emotional awareness can be learned and practiced? Use details from the text to support your answer.

• the author can show how emotional awareness develops over time

• an author might explain how emotional awarness happens in stages of life or changes with age

• they want you to find something in the text with the words emotional awareness

• they want you to explain emotional awareness

When a question asks you " How does Source 2 transform source 1" they want to know

• what is emphasized in source 2

• What is absent from source 1

• How are they alike

• What is present in source 2 that is absent from source 1

When a question asks what is emphasized in one medium and absent from the other... they want to know

• how are they different ( contrast)

• how are they alike

• how one is better

• how one is worse