Accuplacer Writing Practice 1/29

Which is the best decision regarding the underlined portion of sentence 3 (reproduced below)?

Family, injustice, being African American and female were Clifon’s enduring themes.

• Leave it as it is now

• Revise it to “and being”

• Revise it to “and the subjects of”

• DELETE it

(3) Family, injustice, being African American and female were Clifon’s enduring themes. (4) Clifon was born in Depew, New York, in 1936. (5) In her collection Quilting, the speaker in the title poem draws a parallel between a woman teaching her daughter how to quilt and the transformative powers of alchemy. (6) “Remember / this will keep us warm,” she says to the girl. (7) The speaker wonders, however, whether the skills of keeping warm will one day be forgotten and people will lose sight of lessons their ancestors had taught: “do the daughters’ daughters quilt?” she asks; “do the worlds continue spinning away from each other forever?”

Which sentence blurs the focus of the second paragraph and should therefore be deleted?

• Sentence 4

• Sentence 5

• Sentence 6

• Sentence 7

Which is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 9 (reproduced below)?

Her poems often bore witness to what she called “the bond of live things everywhere,” a bond she evoked through seemingly simple but precisely chosen words.

• (as it is now)

• called:

• called—

• called,

Which is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 2 (reproduced below)?

These spiders don’t simply scurry across the sand on their many legs, like tumbling gymnasts, they propel themselves forward (or backward) in a series of quick flips.

• (as it is now)

• legs like tumbling gymnasts;

• legs; like tumbling gymnasts,

• legs like tumbling gymnasts,

Which is the best decision regarding the underlined portion of sentence 5 (reproduced below)?

Eventually the operation became a major employer, providing year-round jobs for about two hundred people and up to four hundred part-time jobs during harvest season coming after growing season.

• Leave it as it is now

• Revise it to “when the crops were ready to pick.”

• Revise it to “after the produce had ripened.”

• DELETE it and end the sentence with a period.

Sentence 13 is reproduced below.

They were also known for giving back to their community.

The writer is considering adding the following text at the end of the sentence: by building churches, funding scholarships, and establishing the Korean Association of Southern California.

Should the writer make this addition there?

• Yes, because it elaborates on the claim made at the beginning of the sentence.

• Yes, because it establishes the historical period in which Kim Brothers operated.

• No, because it introduces details that are irrelevant to the paragraph’s focus on nectarines.

• No, because it fails to explain whether the institutions that the Kims established still exist today.