Passage II Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles

The Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles, depicts a scene of women at work on a quilt in a field of towering yellow flowers that eight African American women sit around the quilt that covers their laps.

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• flowers and eight

• flowers. Eight

• flowers, eight

Choose the option that best corrects the following sentence: "Thus, the answers to these questions can be found in the artwork itself. Ringgold has told the story of this gathering on two horizontal panels of text."

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• Instead, the

• Furthermore, the

• The

Choose the option that best corrects the following sentence: "One panel is sewn into the piece’s top border, the other into it’s bottom border."

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• its

• its’

• their

Choose the option that best corrects the following sentence: "These eight women the story explains, strove the phrase is set off by the two commas indicating that it can be omitted."

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• women, the story explains—

• women the story explains—

• women, the story explains,

Choose the option that best corrects the following sentence: "The scene comes out of the artists imagination as a statement of the unity of purpose that she perceives in their lives."

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• artist’s imagination

• artists’ imagination

• artists imagination,

Choose the option that best corrects the following sentence: "Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman fought to abolish slavery and, later, was active in the crusade for suffrage."

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• was actively engaged

• was engaged

• were active

Which choice most effectively sets up the information that follows in the sentence? Establishing her own hair products business, herself in the first decade of the twentieth century, millions of dollars were later bequeathed by Madam C. J. Walker to charities and educational institutions.

• business belonging to her

• business, herself,

• business

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Which option is written in active voice?

• Madam C. J. Walker later bequeathed millions of dollars to charities and educational institutions.

• charities and educational institutions later received millions of dollars from Madam C. J. Walker.

• millions of dollars were later bequeathed to charities and educational institutions by Madam C. J. Walker.

• millions of dollars were later bequeathed by Madam

  C. J. Walker to charities and educational institutions.

Among the schools that benefited from this

generosity, were those that Mary McLeod Bethune

opened and ran in order to provide a better education

for Black students.

Which option best replaces the underlined portion of the sentence?

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• generosity; were

• generosity were

• generosity were:

If the writer were to delete the preceding sentence

(The flowers seem to celebrate the

women's accomplishments and the beauty of their shared

vision.) ,

the essay would primarily lose:

• an interpretation of the artwork that serves to summarize the essay.

• a reflection on the women depicted in the artwork that compares them to Ringgold.

• a description of a brushwork technique that refers back to the essay’s opening.

• an evaluation of Ringgold’s artistic talent that places her in a historical context.