Unit 2 Test Extra Credit

Which is the most likely meaning of miserable in the following sentence? Base your answer on the meaning of miserable.

Wearing wet shoes and soggy socks on a long hike can make a person miserable.

• thirsty

• grateful

• talkative

• unhappy

Which passage from My Life With the Chimpanzees most clearly supports the idea that Jane Goodall is patient?

• • During those months of gradual discovery, the chimps very slowly began to realize that I was not so frightening after all. Even so, it was almost a year before I could approach to within one hundred yards.

• I carried a little tin trunk up there. In it I kept a kettle, some sugar and coffee, and a tin mug. Then, when I got tired from a long trek to another valley, I could make a drink in the middle of the day. I kept a blanket up there, too

• After supper I would get out the little notebook in which I had scribbled everything I had seen while watching the chimps during the day. I would settle down to write it all legibly into my journal

• Instead of writing the information in notebooks, I started to use a little tape recorder. Then I could keep my eyes on the chimps all the time. By the end of the day there was so much typing to be done that I found I couldn’t do it all myself.

Read the following passage from “How Smart Are Animals?”

Studying the intelligence of animals is very tricky. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, people readily attributed human emotions and mental abilities to animals. Even learned scientists had great faith in animal minds. . . .

• • Animals have human emotions and abilities.

• • Many scientists are very well educated.

• • Even intelligent people can sometimes be wrong.

• It is difficult to determine how smart an animal is.

Which of the following are often used as examples of supporting evidence, or proof, for a central idea?

• • anecdotes

• • examples

• • expert opinions

• all of the above

How does the passage organize the topic of bears?

Bears are a family of mammals that live in a variety of habitats. There are eight species of bears: the American black bear; the Asiatic black bear; the brown bear (a species including the grizzly and the Kodiak bear); the polar bear; the sun bear (the smallest bear); the Andean bear; the sloth bear; the giant panda.

• by size

• by habitat

• by species

• by diet

Authors may have different messages, but what purpose—what reason for writing—is the same for every author of an autobiography?

• 
  to tell the true story of someone's life other than the author's

• to make someone's life more interesting by mixing fact with fiction

• • to write merely to entertain readers

• to tell the true story of the author's own life

Read the following passage from My Life With the Chimpanzees.

. . . they are as easy to tell apart as your classmates. Their faces look different, and they have different characters. David Greybeard, for example, was a calm chimp who liked to keep out of trouble. . . . Goliath had a much more excitable, impetuous temperament. William, with his long-shaped face, was shy and timid.

What is the most likely reason that Dr. Goodall includes this information?

• • to provide a meaningful message about chimps and their behavior

• • to describe her favorite chimp

• • to support the idea that she is highly skilled at observation

• to explain why David Greybeard was the first chimp to approach her

Read the passage from “So What Is a Primate?”

What do you have in common with the aye-aye, sifaka, siamang, and potto? If you said your collarbone, you’re probably a primatologist—a person who studies primates. If you’re not, read on.

Common is a multiple-meaning word. In the passage, what does the word mean?

• • share with

• • often seen

• • of low quality

• not special

Which are the two best ways of identifying the central idea in a reflective essay?

• • by reading the introduction and the conclusion before reading the rest of the essay

• • by examining the title of the essay and then noticing any repeated words or ideas in the text

• • by noticing new words and checking the definitions to be sure the words are being used correctly

• by revisiting the author's real-life experiences and confirming them with an online biography

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• nah, i'll pass