WorksheetsPSAT Practice Test #2_Mod 2_(23-33)
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
#23
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) paradox,
B) paradox
C) paradox, and
D) paradox and,
#24
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
terms presidents
term’s presidents
term’s president’s
terms president’s
#25
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
goes
will have gone
went
had gone
#26
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) stratigraphy—the
B) stratigraphy (the
C) stratigraphy: the
D) stratigraphy, the
#27
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) audience. As to
B) audience to
C) audience. To
D) audience, to
#28
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
For instance
In comparison
Firstly
In conclusion
#29
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Additionally,
Instead,
Thus,
For example,
#30
The student wants to emphasize the thickness of lead-208’s neutron skin. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
The neutron skin surrounding an atom of lead-208 measures about 0.28 trillionths of a millimeter.
Atoms with excess neutrons will often acquire a neutron skin.
An atom of lead-208, like some other atoms, is surrounded by a neutron skin.
Neutrons surround the surface of an atom of lead-208.
#31
The student wants to emphasize a difference in how katydids and crab spiders use mimicry. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Katydids mimic the appearance of flowers, and crab spiders mimic that of leaves.
Katydids and crab spiders are two examples of animals that use mimicry.
Unlike crab spiders, which use mimicry to ambush prey, katydids use mimicry to hide from predators.
Animals that use mimicry have evolved to resemble another animal, plant, or object.
#32
The student wants to use a quotation from Guirguis to explain what the sculpture represents. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Guirguis, whose works include a sculpture that is a large, curved strip of wood, has explained that she wants her work to create a dialogue with audiences.
Inspired by the sistrum played by Egyptian priestesses, Here I Have Returned symbolizes “women who have lifted and supported Egyptian society and culture,” according to Guirguis.
According to Guirguis, the curved strip of wood used in Here I Have Returned was inspired by the sistrum, a musical instrument played by ancient Egyptian priestesses in ceremonies.
Guirguis, the sculptor of Here I Have Returned, wants her works to “engage audiences in a dialogue about power, agency, and social transformation.”
#33
The student wants to use one of the poems to illustrate the sestina form. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A) Hacker employs the sestina, a poetic form with thirty-nine lines and six end words, in both “Forage Sestina” and “Towards Autumn.”
B) As a sestina, “Towards Autumn” contains thirty-nine lines and six end words—in this case, daughter, friend, bread, mother, lover, and myself—that alternate in a set pattern.
C) The thirty-nine-line sestina form uses the words daughter, friend, bread, mother, lover, and myself, which are found in the poem “Forage Sestina.”
D) Hacker has used the sestina form multiple times, as in “Towards Autumn,” which contains these six words: words, structure, wire, beam, wall, and room.
