2022 ENG11A Unit 1 Test Prep

Which evidence from The Education of a Young Chief best supports the idea that an upbringing in nature is superior to all others?

• I have always admired her; she shall be my glory; her features—her robes, and the wreath about her brow …

• It is thought great to be born in palaces, surrounded with wealth: but to be born in Nature’s wide domain is greater still!

• The trees were all that sheltered my infant limbs—the blue heavens all that covered me. I am one of Nature’s children …

• I remember the tall trees, and the dark woods—the swamp just by, where the little wren sang so melodiously …

Which contains EXPLICIT information?

• It was a dark and stormy night...

• All children, except one, grow up.

• “It would be a shame if you were hurt,” she said sincerely.

• The trees in the yard were wildly swaying and the puddles growing larger by the minute.

Read the passage from The Education of a Young Chief.

Yes, Niagara will be Niagara a thousand years hence! The rainbow, a wreath over her brow, shall continue as long as the sun, and the flowing of the river—while the work of art, however impregnable, shall in atoms fall!

What idea can be inferred from this passage?

• Elements of nature will outlast man-made elements.

• Elements of nature are more beautiful than man-made elements.

• The power of rainbows is greater in art than in nature.

• The power of Niagara is greater than that of the sun.

What is a central idea in “Principles of Conservation” by Gifford Pinchot?

• The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

• Forest fires were allowed to burn long after the people had means to stop them.

• Conservation means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.

• The first idea of real foresight in connection with natural resources arose in connection with the forest.

Which of the following might be considered a key supporting detail that a writer would use in an objective summary for "Principles of Conservation" by Gifford Pinchot?

• When at length we came to see that the control of logging in certain directions was profitable, we found it had long been possible.

• It applies as much to the subject of good roads as to waterways, and the training of our people in citizenship is as germane to it as the productiveness of the earth.

• More coal and more iron are required to move a ton of freight by rail than by water, three to one.

• The first principle of conservation is development, the use of the natural resources now existing on this continent for the benefit of the people who live here now.

What does the word “embody” mean in the sentence below?

The principles which the word Conservation has come to embody are not many, and they are exceedingly simple.

• personify

• misrepresent

• collect

• represent

I recall very well indeed how, in the early days of forest fires, they were considered simply and solely as acts of God, against which any opposition was hopeless and any attempt to control them not merely hopeless but childish. It was assumed that they came in the natural order of things, as inevitably as the seasons or the rising and setting of the sun.

What type of figurative languge is used in this passage?

• hyperbole

• personification

• anecdote

• oxymoron

Read the passage from "Save the Redwoods" by John Muir.

(7) Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra.

Choose the answer that best describes the phrase, "It took more than three thousand years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias ...."

• explicit information

• implicit information

Read the paragraph from “Peregrine Falcon.”

(8) Peregrine falcons have never been very abundant. Studies in the 1930s and 1940s estimated that there were about 500 breeding pairs of peregrine falcons in the eastern United States and about 1,000 pairs in the West and Mexico. Then, beginning in the late 1940s, peregrine falcons suffered a devastating and rapid decline. By the mid-1960s, the species had been eliminated from nearly all of the eastern U.S. Although less severe, the decline spread west, where peregrine populations were reduced by 80 to 90 percent by the mid-1970s. At that time, only the populations of Peale’s falcons nesting along the north Pacific Coast in Alaska and British Columbia appeared to be stable.

What organizational structure is used in this paragraph and how do you know?

• cause and effect, because the textual evidence explains why peregrine falcon populations decreased

• description, because of the dates listed and adjectives like abundant and devastating

• chronological, because of the dates listed and words like Then, By, and At that time

• compare and contrast, because the textual evidence lists different peregrine falcon population counts

Read the paragraph from “Peregrine Falcon.”

(9) Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Patuxent Wildlife Research Center near Laurel, Maryland, began investigating the peregrine’s decline. They found unusually high concentrations of the pesticide DDT and its breakdown product DDE in peregrine falcons and other birds of prey. The peregrines accumulated DDT in their tissues by feeding on birds that had eaten DDT-contaminated insects or seeds. The toxic chemical interfered with eggshell formation. As a result, falcons laid eggs with shells so thin they often broke during incubation or otherwise failed to hatch. Because too few young were raised to replace adults that died, peregrine populations declined precipitously.

Which organizational structure is used in this paragraph?

• compare and contrast

• cause and effect

• chronological

• proposition and support