OSAT CEOE CSS Practice Test
Questions and Answers
"Dave and John went to his house after school." The sentence above contains which of
the following errors: a) Misplaced modifier b) Pronoun ambiguity c) Agreement error d)
Verb tense error - ANSWER-B
"Following the upheaval of the Civil War, many Southerners wanted to restore their
antebellum way of life." A student unfamiliar with the word antebellum in the sentence
above could find out its meaning using any of the following EXCEPT: a) knowledge of
root words b) knowledge of suffixes c) a dictionary d) context clues - ANSWER-B
"My heart raced as the door gave a long, eerie creak. After an eternity, the door stood
fully open to reveal a silhouette, black as the night against the light pouring in from the
next room." The passage above contains examples of all of the following literary devices
EXCEPT: a) hyperbole b) simile c) alliteration d) onomatopoeia - ANSWER-C
"The" is good to teach as an early sight word because it is: I. High frequency II. Low
frequency III. Simple for early beginning readers to decode phonetically IV. Difficult to
decode phonetically: a) I and III only b) I and IV only c) II and III only d) II and IV only -
ANSWER-B
"While my father cooked dinner, I did my homework." The sentence above is classified
as: a) simple b) compound c) complex d) compound-complex - ANSWER-C
A student completes an oral reading fluency assessment as his teacher keeps a running
record. Which of the following statements refers to the student's automaticity? a) The
student read with 97% accuracy. b) The student slowed to decode unfamiliar words four
times during the assessment.c) The student read at a rate of 39 words correct per
minute. d) The student used appropriate vocal inflections for punctuation marks such as
question marks and commas. - ANSWER-B
A student is using two texts (referred to as A and B) for a research paper on the
Confederate Army of the American Civil War. Text A is a letter written by a Confederate
soldier to his family during the war. Text B is a research article about desertion rates
among Confederate soldiers. Which of these statements about the two texts is most
accurate? a) Both Texts A and B are secondary sources. b) Only Text B should be used
because it is the only one that is non-fiction. c) Text B is more likely to contain bias than
Text A. d) Only Text A is a primary source. - ANSWER-D
Questions and Answers
"Dave and John went to his house after school." The sentence above contains which of
the following errors: a) Misplaced modifier b) Pronoun ambiguity c) Agreement error d)
Verb tense error - ANSWER-B
"Following the upheaval of the Civil War, many Southerners wanted to restore their
antebellum way of life." A student unfamiliar with the word antebellum in the sentence
above could find out its meaning using any of the following EXCEPT: a) knowledge of
root words b) knowledge of suffixes c) a dictionary d) context clues - ANSWER-B
"My heart raced as the door gave a long, eerie creak. After an eternity, the door stood
fully open to reveal a silhouette, black as the night against the light pouring in from the
next room." The passage above contains examples of all of the following literary devices
EXCEPT: a) hyperbole b) simile c) alliteration d) onomatopoeia - ANSWER-C
"The" is good to teach as an early sight word because it is: I. High frequency II. Low
frequency III. Simple for early beginning readers to decode phonetically IV. Difficult to
decode phonetically: a) I and III only b) I and IV only c) II and III only d) II and IV only -
ANSWER-B
"While my father cooked dinner, I did my homework." The sentence above is classified
as: a) simple b) compound c) complex d) compound-complex - ANSWER-C
A student completes an oral reading fluency assessment as his teacher keeps a running
record. Which of the following statements refers to the student's automaticity? a) The
student read with 97% accuracy. b) The student slowed to decode unfamiliar words four
times during the assessment.c) The student read at a rate of 39 words correct per
minute. d) The student used appropriate vocal inflections for punctuation marks such as
question marks and commas. - ANSWER-B
A student is using two texts (referred to as A and B) for a research paper on the
Confederate Army of the American Civil War. Text A is a letter written by a Confederate
soldier to his family during the war. Text B is a research article about desertion rates
among Confederate soldiers. Which of these statements about the two texts is most
accurate? a) Both Texts A and B are secondary sources. b) Only Text B should be used
because it is the only one that is non-fiction. c) Text B is more likely to contain bias than
Text A. d) Only Text A is a primary source. - ANSWER-D
