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ACT Scanning Passages Practice

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the author of this passage?

a)

Christy Moody

b)

Hank White

c)

Ollie Sandoval

d)

Sarah James

2.

What is the 3rd word in line 66?

a)

democracies

b)

but

c)

are

d)

engineers

3.

On what line is the word "ceded" found?

a)

Line 102

b)

Line 16

c)

Line 64

d)

Line 82

4.

What is the 1st word in line 39?

a)

qualities

b)

and

c)

daily

d)

the

5.

What is the 7th word in line 78?

a)

evolve

b)

libraries

c)

here

d)

districts

6.

What is the 5th word in line 21?

a)

but

b)

normal

c)

provided

d)

of

7.

What is the type of this passage?

a)

Social Science

b)

Humanities

c)

Prose Fiction

d)

Natural Science

8.

What is the 10th word on line 104?

a)

the

b)

communities

c)

merely

d)

get

9.

What is the 6th word on line 10?

a)

with

b)

development

c)

democracy

d)

but

10.

How many total lines are there in this passage?

a)

100

b)

104

c)

110

d)

102

11.

What is the 1st word of line 1?

a)

when

b)

perhaps

c)

the

d)

and

12.

What is the only punctuation mark in line 35?

a)

.

b)

'

c)

;

d)

-

13.

What is the word with a capital letter in line 92?

a)

More

b)

It

c)

Unfortunately

d)

Some

14.

What punctuation mark is NOT found in line 104?

a)

.

b)

,

c)

;

15.

On what line does paragraph 3 start?

a)

9

b)

64

c)

29

d)

25

16.

What is the 1st word in paragraph 5?

(a)  

17.

What is the 3rd word in line 15?

(a)  

18.

What word is not found in line 47

a)

businesses

b)

choose

c)

quality

d)

money

19.

What word is not found in line 76?

a)

central

b)

in

c)

and

d)

architecture

20.

What is the last word in paragraph 3?

a)

visit

b)

country

c)

space

d)

want