7th Grade Unit 4 Test

1A. What is most likely the author’s purpose for writing the article?

• to describe how important education and optimism is.
• to show her love for her grandpa.
• to inform others about the benefits for education.
• to explain why she likes Martin Luther King Jr., the Wright brothers, and Jonas Salk.
• to persuade others to be more optimistic.

1B. Choose three quotations below that support the answer to Part A.

• "Despite all my grandfather had to endure—including poverty and segregation—he understood that education is a privilege."
• "I first learned about the transforming power of education from stories about my paternal grandfather."
• "Optimists move and shape history because those with a vision of a better world have the energy and discipline required to make those visions real."
• "After the first year, he ran out of cotton and he needed a way to pay."
• "Nor were the Wright Brothers, or Jonas Salk, or Martin Luther King."

3A: Read the following sentence from paragraph 1. "One day, [my grandfather] decided to get book-learning." By choosing the word book-learning, what does Rice most likely wish to suggest about her grandfather?

• a.By choosing a term used by some teachers, she wishes to suggest that her grandfather is intelligent.
• b.By choosing a witty term, she wishes to suggest that her grandfather had a sense of humor.
• c.By choosing a term used by some country people, she wishes to suggest her grandfather’s country upbringing.
• d.By choosing a term that shows disrespect, she wishes to suggest that her grandfather had scorn for educated people.

3B: Which of the following sentences from the speech provides the best support for the answer to Part A?

• a.Granddaddy Rice was a poor farmer’s son in Ewtah, Alabama (paragraph 1)
• b.Granddaddy asked the school administrators how those other boys were staying in school.… (paragraph 1)
• c.My grandfather said, “That’s just what I had in mind.” (paragraph 1)
• d.[H]e understood that education is a privilege. (paragraph 2)

4A. How does the author mainly organize paragraph 1 in the excerpt from Condoleezza Rice's Speech?

• Sequencing / Chronological Order
• Cause and Effect
• Problem and Solution
• Compare and Contrast

4B. Which description best illustrates how the structure in Part A is achieved?

• "My grandfather said, “That’s just what I had in mind.”"
• "After the first year, he ran out of cotton and he needed a way to pay."
• "Granddaddy Rice was a poor farmer’s son in Ewtah, Alabama."
• "They said that a little Presbyterian school, Stillman College, was only about 50 miles away."

5. Evaluate Rice’s use of persuasive appeals in the speech. Begin by identifying her main claim. Then, in one or two sentences, explain whether the appeals she makes are sufficient to support that claim.

6A. In “Monarch Butterfly Migration and Overwintering,” how do the sections Congregation Sites and Use of Peninsulas mainly contribute to the article as a whole? RI.7.5

• These sections describe important behaviors monarchs exhibit as they travel.
• These sections emphasize the need for further research on monarch migration.
• These sections explain that weather conditions need to stay the same for monarchs to survive.
• These sections show why monarchs have difficulty adapting to new surroundings.

6B. Which detail from the article best supports the answer to Part A?

• "It is truly amazing that these monarchs know the way. . . .” (paragraph 9)
• “Many of these locations are used year after year.” (paragraph 10)
• “. . . wait for a gentle breeze to help them across.” (paragraph 11)
• “As warm temperatures and lengthening days arrive . . .” (paragraph 12)

7A. Based on the evidence in the article, what is most likely the author’s purpose in “Monarch Butterfly Migration and Overwintering”?

• to persuade people to learn more about butterflies.
• to explain a new method for analyzing butterflies.
• to inform about the migration of butterflies.
• to explain the difficulties scientists have in recognizing the migrating patterns of butterflies.