Achieve ELA-Unit 3 Test Review

Based on the meaning of the prefix mal-

What do you think it means if a person is malicious?

• The person likes delicious foods that are bad for their health.

• The person behaves badly or in a mean way.

Answer explanation

-mal is a prefix that means bad or badly

Based on the context clues, the word excruciating in the passage most likely means...

Even though her ankle was not broken, at the moment of impact, Helen found the pain to be excruciating. She cried out and dropped to the ground, her eyes squeezed tightly shut, waiting for the first waves of agony to subside.

• severe

• calm

Answer explanation

The following clue words can help you get the right answer: pain, she cried out, eyes squeezed tightly shut, waves of agony

Thinking about the previous question, which of the following phrases provides the best context clue for the word excruciating?

• "she cried out and dropped to the ground"

• "her ankle was not broken"

Answer explanation

"she cried out and dropped to the ground" describes the amount of pain she was in

Read the passage and answer the question.

Sterling and Jess grabbed their suntan lotion and slathered it all over themselves. Once they reached a good spot, they laid down their picnic blanket, kicked off their sandals, and ran down to jump into the water. The salty water was a great way to escape the heat! 

What can you conclude about this passage?

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Sterling and Jess grabbed their suntan lotion and slathered it all over themselves. Once they reached a good spot, they laid down their picnic blanket, kicked off their sandals, and ran down to jump into the water. The salty water was a great way to escape the heat! 

Which parts of the passage help you determine your answer? Choose 2.

• they laid down their picnic blanket

• the salty water was a great way to escape the heat

• Sterling and Jess grabbed their suntan lotion and slathered it all over themselves

• and ran down

Answer explanation

Your clue were things that can happen at the beach.

Read the passage, what part of the passage gives an indirect characterization of Scrooge?

Marley: No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children ever ask him what it is o’clock, no man or woman now, or ever in his life, not once, inquire the way to such and such a place. [Marley stands next to Scrooge now. They share, so it seems, a spotlight.] But what does Scrooge care of any of this? It is the very thing he likes! To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance.

[A ghostly bell rings in the distance. Marley moves away from Scrooge, now, heading D. again. As he does, he “takes” the light: Scrooge has disappeared into the black void beyond. Marley walks D.C., talking directly to the audience. Pauses]

• talking directly to the audience

• "To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance."

Marley: No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children ever ask him what it is o’clock, no man or woman now, or ever in his life, not once, inquire the way to such and such a place. [Marley stands next to Scrooge now. They share, so it seems, a spotlight.] But what does Scrooge care of any of this? It is the very thing he likes! To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance.

[A ghostly bell rings in the distance. Marley moves away from Scrooge, now, heading D. again. As he does, he “takes” the light: Scrooge has disappeared into the black void beyond. Marley walks D.C., talking directly to the audience. Pauses]

Which one is an example of a stage direction from the passage?

• A ghostly bell rings in the distance.

• "But what does Scrooge care of any of this?"

Answer explanation

Stage directions are written in italics and within [brackets]

"She still held him tightly. But she bent down enough to permit him to stoop and pick up her purse. Then she said, 'Now ain’t you ashamed of yourself?'

Firmly gripped by his shirt front, the boy said, 'Yes’m.'

The woman said, 'What did you want to do it for?'

The boy said, "I didn’t aim to.'

She said, 'You a lie!'"

The paragraphs in the passage above show_____ between Mrs. Jones and Roger.

• dialogue

• resolution

Roger attempts to steal Mrs. Jones's purse, but he gets more than he bargained for. He fails and she takes him home to clean him up and serve him dinner. He learns a lesson that day.

The above paragraph is an example of_____.

• point of view

• plot

Read the following excerpt from "Little Things Are Big" by Jesus Colon:

"It was very late at night on the eve of Memorial Day. She came into the subway at the 34th Street Pennsylvania Station. I am still trying to remember how she managed to push herself in with a baby on her right arm, a valise in her left hand, and two children, a boy and a girl about three and five years old, trailing after her."

This part of the story most likely represents the _____.

• exposition

• resolution