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The story about the Underground Railroad contains and ... about Moses. 

• allusion
• illusion

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Choose the word with the positive connotation.
inquiring--prying

• inquiring
• prying

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What are the “eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg”?

• Seeing eye dogs that the doctor trains fro the Association of the Blind
• A group of security guards who monitor the doctor’s home and offices
• A new kind of contact lens that the doctor has just developed
• An illustration on a billboard overlooking the valley of ashes

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Ponyboy tells Randy that Johnny isn't ______.

• Sorry.
• Poor.
• Dead.
• Alive.

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Lana was bursting with excitement.  She paced up and down, and every few minutes headed to the window to check for the mail carrier.  When he finally showed up, she ran down the path and stretched out her hand for the mail.  She took a deep breath and, hands shaking, ripped open the envelope.  
What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• humorous 
• persuasive 
• anxious 
• cheerful 

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When Mercutio sees Nurse he treats her

• rudely
• jokingly 
• lovingly
• secretively 

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In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare says his beloved will live on forever in his "eternal lines." What does this mean?

• People will read about him in his poems 
• She will die and go to heaven 
• She will fall out of line
• People will know her because of her beauty 

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What figurative language is used in this sentence?

"The boy was as fast as a rocket as he sped by on his bicycle"

• metaphor

• simile

• end-stopped

• personification

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Are you brave ___________ to jump out of the plane?

• not enough

• too

• enough

• not too

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I am so hungry, I could eat a whole elephant!

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

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