Main Idea and Objective Summary

What is the central idea of the first paragraph of Shakespeare of London?

• Actors on the Elizabethan stage became wealthy.

• Actors were widely respected.

• Actors faced harsh conditions.

• Actors did not need to be athletically skilled.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which sentence from paragraph 1 BEST supports the answer for Question 1?

• "He worked on a raised stage."

• "An actor went through a strenuous training."

• "He worked . . . with none of the softening illusions that can be achieved in modern theater."

• "Acting was not an easy profession on the Elizabethan stage or one to be taken lightly."

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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How does the author connect the ideas in paragraphs 3 and 4?

• by describing the early training of the actors

• by connecting the necessity of being able to fall without injury to being able to duel without inflicting injury

• by connecting the need to fall without injury to the idea that hand-to-hand combat was often in Elizabethan plays

• by explaining that the average Londoner was an expert on the subject of fencing.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which sentence best describes the theme of the passage taken from "Code Talkers"?

• The Navajo code talkers speak a complicated language.

• It is difficult to learn to speak the Navajo language.

• The Navajo code talkers contributed greatly to the war effort of World War II.

• Many Navajos realized that it would be difficult for them to learn English.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is the implied main idea of the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost?

• One should be willing to choose a path in life that is different, even while realizing that it may not be easy.

• One should make sure one doesn't get lost in the woods.

• One will probably regret any decisions one makes.

• Life is confusing and troubling.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What does the speaker in "The Road Not Taken" mean when he says, "Yet knowing how way leads on to way,/ I doubted if I should ever come back"?

• He knew the way back to this part of the woods.

• He knew that this path led him to another way out of the woods.

• He feared that this path would lead him to his death.

• He doubted he would come back because life seldom allows us to go back to a place.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which quotation reveals the speaker's conclusion about the path he has chosen to follow in "The Road not Taken"?

• "Because it was grassy and wanted wear"

• "Oh, I kept the first for another day!"

• "And that has made all the difference."

• "I shall be telling this with a sigh."

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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Which choice states the inferred main idea of the passage by Helen Keller?

• The author was grateful to learn what words mean even though it was a difficult process.

• The author enjoyed playing with her doll until she broke it.

• The author turned seven years old three days after March 3, 1887.

• The author felt satisfied when her teacher swept up the pieces of her broken doll.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which statement is the STRONGEST support for the main idea of the passage by Helen Keller?

• The author never wanted to learn to spell.

• The author was confused and angry because she lived in a "still, dark world."

• Anne Mansfield Sullivan was a very kind woman.

• The author is now remembered as a courageous woman.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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Which assertion is best supported by the evidence in the passage by Helen Keller?

• The author was always very studious and thoughtful.

• Anne Mansfield Sullivan worked as a school teacher before working with the author.

• At first, learning to relate words to objects was very difficult for the author.

• The author did not need a teacher to learn how to spell.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.8

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