ENGLISH CUMULATIVE EXAM FINAL PAPER
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ What is the best way to revise the paragraph to connect ideas?
Answer: d. by combining sentences 4 and 5 with the transition word
so
◉ Which is the authors' purpose for writing this passage? Answer: b.
to inform readers about the cultural and historical significance of
honey
◉ The fisherman's motivation is to Answer: b try to find a way to
stay alive.
◉ Which text evidence best supports the authors' claim and purpose
that enslaved people were more than mercilessly treated workers?
Answer: b. "They were not just labor, not just bodies born to work
and die."
◉ Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."
,To permanently stem this flow of children, we must address the
complex root causes of violence in Honduras, as well as the demand
for illegal drugs in the United States that is fueling that violence.
What device supports the author's purpose, which is to show what
has led to the refugee crisis? Answer: b. repetition
◉ Read the sentence.
Because of the high winds, the fire may spread rapidly, and we have
been ordered to evacuate.
What type of sentence is this? Answer: c. a compound sentence
◉ How does Orwell use irony in this excerpt? Answer: c. The text
shows that the animals expected a different outcome than the reality
they are facing.
◉ How does the cartoonist use an analogy to express his viewpoint
in this cartoon? Answer: c. The cartoonist compares the shark's
illness to food poisoning to show that pollution affects wildlife.
◉ Which paragraphs from the excerpt best support the conclusion
that the author's primary purpose is to teach a lesson? Select two
,options. Answer: a. "All the answers being different, the King agreed
with none of them, and gave the reward to none. But still wishing to
find the right answers to his questions, he decided to consult a
hermit, widely renowned for his wisdom."
d. "The King went up to him and said: 'I have come to you, wise
hermit, to ask you to answer three questions: How can I learn to do
the right thing at the right time? Who are the people I most need,
and to whom should I, therefore, pay more attention than to the
rest? And, what affairs are the most important, and need my first
attention?'"
◉ Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
In the 1400s, Spain and Portugal were competing to explore down
the coast of Africa and find a sea route to Asia. That way, they could
have the prized Asian spices they wanted without having to pay high
prices to Venetian and Muslim middlemen. Spanish and Portuguese
sailors searching for that sea route conquered the Canary Islands
and the Azores. Soon they began building Muslim-style sugar
plantations on the islands, some of them staffed by slaves purchased
from nearby Africa. One sailor came to know these islands
particularly well because he traded in "white gold"—sugar. And
then, as he set off on his second voyage across the sea to what he
thought was Asia, he carried sugar cane plants from Gomera, one of
the Canary Islands, with him on his ship.
, His name was Christopher Columbus.
How do the details in the passage most support the central idea?
Answer: The details describe how Spanish and Portuguese
explorations helped expand the sugar trade.
◉ Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130."
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,—
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ What is the best way to revise the paragraph to connect ideas?
Answer: d. by combining sentences 4 and 5 with the transition word
so
◉ Which is the authors' purpose for writing this passage? Answer: b.
to inform readers about the cultural and historical significance of
honey
◉ The fisherman's motivation is to Answer: b try to find a way to
stay alive.
◉ Which text evidence best supports the authors' claim and purpose
that enslaved people were more than mercilessly treated workers?
Answer: b. "They were not just labor, not just bodies born to work
and die."
◉ Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."
,To permanently stem this flow of children, we must address the
complex root causes of violence in Honduras, as well as the demand
for illegal drugs in the United States that is fueling that violence.
What device supports the author's purpose, which is to show what
has led to the refugee crisis? Answer: b. repetition
◉ Read the sentence.
Because of the high winds, the fire may spread rapidly, and we have
been ordered to evacuate.
What type of sentence is this? Answer: c. a compound sentence
◉ How does Orwell use irony in this excerpt? Answer: c. The text
shows that the animals expected a different outcome than the reality
they are facing.
◉ How does the cartoonist use an analogy to express his viewpoint
in this cartoon? Answer: c. The cartoonist compares the shark's
illness to food poisoning to show that pollution affects wildlife.
◉ Which paragraphs from the excerpt best support the conclusion
that the author's primary purpose is to teach a lesson? Select two
,options. Answer: a. "All the answers being different, the King agreed
with none of them, and gave the reward to none. But still wishing to
find the right answers to his questions, he decided to consult a
hermit, widely renowned for his wisdom."
d. "The King went up to him and said: 'I have come to you, wise
hermit, to ask you to answer three questions: How can I learn to do
the right thing at the right time? Who are the people I most need,
and to whom should I, therefore, pay more attention than to the
rest? And, what affairs are the most important, and need my first
attention?'"
◉ Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
In the 1400s, Spain and Portugal were competing to explore down
the coast of Africa and find a sea route to Asia. That way, they could
have the prized Asian spices they wanted without having to pay high
prices to Venetian and Muslim middlemen. Spanish and Portuguese
sailors searching for that sea route conquered the Canary Islands
and the Azores. Soon they began building Muslim-style sugar
plantations on the islands, some of them staffed by slaves purchased
from nearby Africa. One sailor came to know these islands
particularly well because he traded in "white gold"—sugar. And
then, as he set off on his second voyage across the sea to what he
thought was Asia, he carried sugar cane plants from Gomera, one of
the Canary Islands, with him on his ship.
, His name was Christopher Columbus.
How do the details in the passage most support the central idea?
Answer: The details describe how Spanish and Portuguese
explorations helped expand the sugar trade.
◉ Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130."
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,—
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.
