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Mrs. Ponte's Macbeth Act III Reading Comprehension Quiz assesses understanding of key plot points and character motivations in Act III. It evaluates comprehension of Macbeth's kingship, the plot against Banquo, and significant...
Questions: 5 | Attempts: 235 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023
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Sample QuestionWhen Macbeth says, "To be thus is nothing," To what does "thus" refer?
This English Reading Comprehension Quiz assesses understanding of passage themes, inference skills, and vocabulary. It focuses on analyzing health impacts in low-income areas due to food availability, supporting learners in...
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Sample QuestionWhich of the following would be the best title for the passage?
The 'L.A. 7 Final (semester 2)' quiz assesses comprehension and literary analysis skills through questions on passages, figures of speech, and safety guidelines. It aims to enhance reading, understanding, and critical thinking in...
Questions: 47 | Attempts: 131 | Last updated: May 7, 2024
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Sample QuestionRead the following passage From “The Log Jam” from River Notes: the Dance of the Herons by Barry Holstun Lopez and answer the question below: A storm came this year, against which all other storms were to be measured, on a Saturday in October, a balmy afternoon. Men in the woods cutting firewood for winter, and children outside with melancholy thoughts lodged somewhere in the memory of summer. It built as it came up the valley as did every fall storm, but the steel-gray thunderheads, the first sign of it anyone saw, were higher, much higher, too high. In the stillness before it hit, men looked at each other as though a fast and wiry man had pulled a knife in a bar. They felt the trees falling before they heard the wind, and they dropped tools and scrambled to get out. The wind came up suddenly and like a scythe, like piranha after them, like seawater through a breach in a dike. The first blow bent trees in half to the ground, the second caught them and snapped them like kindling, sending limbs raining down and twenty-foot splinters hurling through the air like mortar shells to stick quivering in the ground. Bawling cattle running the fences, a loose lawnmower bumping across a lawn, a stray dog lunging or a child racing by. The big trees went down screaming, ripping open holes in the wind that were filled with the broken-china explosion of a house and the yawing screech of a pickup rubbed across asphalt, the rivet popping and twang of phone and electric wires It was over in three or four minutes. The eerie sucking silence it left behind seemed palpably evil, something that would get into the standing timber, like insects, a memory. No one was killed. Roads were cut off, a bridge buckled. No power. A few had to walk in from places far off in the steep wooded country, arriving home later than they’d ever been up. Some said it pulled the community together, others how they hated living in the trees with no light. No warning. The next day it rained and the woods smelled like ashes. It was four or five days before they got the roads opened and the phones working, electricity back. Three sent down to the hospital in Holterville. Among the dead, Cawley Besson’s dog. And two deer, butchered and passed quietly in parts among neighbors. Of the trees that fell into the river, a number came up like beached whales among willows at the tip of an island. From “The Log Jam” from River Notes: the Dance of the Herons by Barry Holstun Lopez. Copyright © 1976 by Barry Holstun Lopez. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of SSL/terling Lord Literistic, Inc. Before the storm, people are _________________.
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When you read a passage, you are expected to understand just how much you understand what it is about and how you would summarize it. To summarize one entirely, you must not deflect from the main idea. The quiz below is designed...
Questions: 13 | Attempts: 4624 | Last updated: Nov 29, 2024
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Sample QuestionWhich sentence is not important enough to be included in a summary of the passage?
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