Cumulative Test Questions with Correct Answers

Cumulative Test Questions with Correct Answers What is universal theme? - Answer-a central message that applies to anyone, anywhere Which statement shows appropriate maturity, sensitivity, and respect for an interview? - Answer-"I left my last job because there were few opportunities to advance." Which statement best summarizes a central idea in The Namesake? - Answer-Children adapt more easily to cultural differences than adults do. Which excerpt from The Great Gatsby best indicates that Nick is not fully content with his life? - Answer-Instead of being the warm center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go East and learn the bond business. Read the excerpt from "In Response to Executive Order 9066." I've packed my galoshes and three packets of tomato seeds. Denise calls them love apples. My father says where we're going they won't grow. Read the excerpt from "Mericans." She's so busy taking Junior's picture, she doesn't notice me and Keeks. "Hey, Michele, Keeks. You guys want gum?" "But you speak English!" "Yeah," my brother says, "we're Mericans." Which of the statements best describes both excerpts? - Answer-Okita uses the tomato, a food native to the Americas, to highlight the speaker's American identity, while Cisneros uses the English language to give her characters an American identity. Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son. He had lived and died in an intolerable bitterness of spirit and it frightened me, as we drove him to the graveyard through those unquiet, ruined streets, to see how powerful and overflowing this bitterness could be and to realize that this bitterness now was mine. Based on Baldwin's reflection about his father's life, which best states the effects of racial prejudice? - Answer-The effects of racial prejudice are passed down from generation to generation. Which of the following excerpts from Sandra Cisneros's story "Mericans" best reveals a blending of cultures? - Answer-"'Hey, Michele, Keeks. You guys want gum?' 'But you speak English!' 'Yeah,' my brother says, 'we're Mericans.'" Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son. That bleakly memorable morning I hated the unbelievable streets and the Negroes and whites who had, equally, made them that way. But I knew that it was folly, as my father would have said, this bitterness was folly.