GED Reading Exam Prep

Recent Quizzes

AAD GED Reading Comprehension

Be careful of questions that use words like exception and not. Remember if you are asked a vocabulary question to read either the sentence in front or behind it to understand the...

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 692 | Last updated: Aug 21, 2023

Sample Question
Review #1 by Garfield A Streetcar Named Desire is a classic of the American theater. Tennessee Williams’ landmark work was a tour de force in its original stage production in 1947 and continues to resonate with audiences and readers today despite—or perhaps because of—its simplistic though layered story. A faded Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, arrives at her sister’s seedy New Orleans apartment where she is tortured by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Blanche puts on airs of class and happiness throughout the play, though internally she is miserable and haunted by her tragic and scandalous past. Stanley forces Blanche to face her dolorous reality with his vitriol and, finally, his act of sexual aggression, and in doing so, he causes her to lose her tenuous grip on sanity. Most have argued (correctly) that the play is about the ways the past haunts our present or (again correctly) that it is about the ways class and sexuality impact our lives. However, few have seen the play for what it is: an allegory for the theater itself. Before Williams wrote Streetcar, the theater had been dominated by melodrama. A brief interlude in the 1930s brought political theater to center stage (pardon the pun), but by the 1940s, its principal playwright, Clifford Odets, had left New York for Hollywood, and the sensationalized and maudlin form of melodrama once again flourished. The theater was in limbo, and Williams had a desire to bring something new to the world. It would bring the realism of the political theater of the 1930s but without the political (read: socialist) underpinnings. To that end, he created lifelike characters who spoke in realistic dialect. But to make his point that melodrama was flawed, he added an equally unrealistic character. Blanche, unlike the other characters, speaks theatrically, acts larger than life on stage, and uses floral language and heightened mannerisms. Blanche is a character not to be trusted. She lies about everything, and the only thing that finally exposes her lies is reality itself: Stanley. He finally forces her off the stage and into the insane asylum by forcing himself on her sexually. And with that, realism forcibly removed melodrama from the stage. Review #2 by McKinley It is not possible to imagine A Streetcar Named Desire without the influence of Marlon Brando, the actor who rose to fame playing Stanley Kowalski. On the page, the part is fairly simplistic. Stanley is a monster and a beast without any redeeming qualities. But Brando and the play’s original director, Elia Kazan, imagined the character as having a soft underbelly, rooted in his own sorrow, insecurities, and soulful complexity. Brando’s Stanley is a brute, yes, but he is a brute who hates the fact that he is so awful. He is also unable to control himself and his passions, and this lack of control is equally embarrassing to him, even as it is also threatening to Blanche and alluring to her sister Stella. For instance, after he hits Stella, he comes back to her, famously begging for forgiveness by shouting “Stella” outside their apartment. But in Brando’s depiction on the stage and later on the screen, he is soaked from the rain and looks completely desperate, as though he needs Stella to live. He looks and seems totally helpless and weak, the exact opposite of the brute he appears later when he forces himself onto Blanche. The play is excellent and memorable, even when read. But it is Brando’s interpretation of the male lead role that makes the play indelible. Without Brando, the play would still have a deep meaning, but with Brando’s interpretation, the play becomes even more profound. The first review provides each of the following EXCEPT

A critical interpretation of A Streetcar Named Desire

An explanation of why modern audiences connect with A Streetcar Named Desire

A brief plot synopsis of A Streetcar Named Desire

Background information about the time period of the 1940s

The author’s main argument concerning A Streetcar Named Desire

How Diverse Is Your Reading List?

Embark on the Reading List Diversity Quiz, a journey to uncover the inclusivity of your reading choices. Delve into these thought-provoking multiple-choice questions that reveal...

Questions: 15 | Attempts: 170 | Last updated: Nov 16, 2023

Sample Question
Which type of literature do you most often read?

Fiction

Non-fiction

Poetry

Plays

How Much Do You Know About The Science Of Reading?

Reading is not as simple as it seems. How much do you know about the science of reading? Would you like to play a quiz that we have made to test your knowledge and understanding...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 269 | Last updated: Nov 16, 2023

Sample Question
In the long term, early ability grouping helps in _________ reading gaps.

Killing

Narrowing

Widening

Using

Improve Your Reading Skills In This Quiz

Reading skills are very important in any language to gain proper command, confidence and fluency! This is a quiz that will challenge your reading skills and improve them. ALL THE...

Questions: 8 | Attempts: 615 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

Sample Question
Read the text. Match words to names/places.

It

A restaurant in Melbourne

They

Julie and Frank

She

Julie

He

Frank

Olympiad - 11th Grade - Reading

Welcome to the Reading part of the Olympiad! Once you write your name, last name, and email, you will start the Olympiad. You will need to read the texts and the answer the...

Questions: 35 | Attempts: 1417 | Last updated: Nov 04, 2024

Sample Question
Artist Peter Fuller talks about his hobby There’s a popular idea that artists are not supposed to be into sport, but mountain biking is a huge part of my life. It gets me out of my studio, and into the countryside. But more importantly, racing along as fast as you can leaves you no time to worry about anything that’s going on in your life. You’re too busy concentrating on not crashing. The only things you pay attention to are the pain in your legs and the rocks on the path in front of you. I’m in my sixties now, but I started cycling when I was a kid. In the summer my friends and I would ride our bikes into the woods and see who was brave enough to go down steep hills, or do big jumps. The bikes we had then weren’t built for that, and often broke, so I used to draw pictures of bikes with thick tyres that would be strong enough for what we were doing. They looked just like modern mountain bikes. However, it wasn’t until many years later that someone actually invented one. By the 1980s, they were everywhere. At that time I was into skateboarding. I did that for a decade until falling off on to hard surfaces started to hurt too much. Mountain biking seemed a fairy safe way to keep fit, so I took that up instead. I made a lot of friends, and got involved in racing, which gave me a reason to train hard. I wanted to find out just how fit and fast I could get, which turned out to be fairly quick. I even won a couple of local races. In the end I stopped racing, mainly because I knew what it could mean to my career if I had a bad crash. But I still like to do a three-hour mountain bike ride every week. And if I’m out cycling in the hills and see a rider ahead, I have to beat them to the top. As I go past I imagine how surprised they would be if they knew how old I am. Peter enjoys mountain biking because ....

It gives him the opportunity to enjoy the views.

He can use the time to plan his work.

He is able to stop thinking about his problems.

It helps him to concentrate better.

ONLINE ENGLISH ACT TEST

This ONLINE ENGLISH ACT TEST assesses comprehension through a series of passage-based questions. Covering Passage 1, it evaluates understanding and interpretation skills, crucial...

Questions: 75 | Attempts: 245 | Last updated: Aug 22, 2023

Sample Question
ENGLISH TEST / PASSAGE 1 QUESTION 1

A

B

C

D

GED Reading Exam Prep

Which of these involve reading a book more than once?

Quiz Preview

What reading method is peculiar with blindness?

Where did the earliest approach at reading begin?

What kind of reading combines sight reading with internal sounding of the words?

What reading rate is the fastest?

When was the study of reading recorded to been started?

How many are the functional types of reading texts?

What is the process of recording information to be read later called?

Which of these is a predictor of an individuals reading activity?

What is the requirement for effective reading?