English Cumulative Exam Review (100%
Pass)
Which statement gives evidence for Brutus's tragic flaw in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar? ✔✔A.
Brutus decides to join the conspirators to murder Caesar.
Read the excerpts from two articles written about the same topic.
Article 1
Taxpayers will fund most of the new arena, at a cost of $300 million. We will all be asked to
share the burden of a facility that may well be replaced in 10 years, when the powers that be
decide that we need yet another upgrade.
Article 2
The construction of the arena will cost the city $300 million. Taxpayers will assume 90 percent
of the cost. Several protesters showed up at city hall Tuesday to express their disapproval of the
decision. They were forcibly removed by police after two hours.
,Which comparison of the two excerpts is most accurate? ✔✔B. Excerpt 1 is subjective and
opinionated, while excerpt 2 is objective and verifiable.
Read the passage from an argumentative essay.
(1) Bernie Sanders has argued that no one should have to pay tuition to go to college. (2) This
will only increase the tax burden on the middle classes.
To improve the relationship between ideas, the writer should revise sentence 2 by ✔✔B. adding
"however" to the beginning of the sentence.
You have been asked to create a multimedia presentation about the dangers of texting and
driving. You have chosen the photo below as the final visual aid for your presentation.
Which heading is the most persuasive for this image? ✔✔D. "Is this text more important than
your life?"
, Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 1, of Julius Caesar.
MESSENGER. Prepare you, generals.The enemy comes on in gallant show.Their bloody sign of
battle is hung out,And something to be done immediately.
ANTONY. Octavius, lead your battle softly on,Upon the left hand of the even field.
OCTAVIUS. Upon the right hand, I; keep thou the left.
How does the use of the word gallant add to the meaning of the sentence? ✔✔D. It suggests that
the enemy is courageous.
Read the passage from "By the Waters of Babylon."
I told and he listened. After that, I wished to tell all the people but he showed me otherwise. He
said, "Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth. It
was not idly that our fathers forbade the Dead Places." He was right—it is better the truth should
come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate
knowledge too fast.
Pass)
Which statement gives evidence for Brutus's tragic flaw in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar? ✔✔A.
Brutus decides to join the conspirators to murder Caesar.
Read the excerpts from two articles written about the same topic.
Article 1
Taxpayers will fund most of the new arena, at a cost of $300 million. We will all be asked to
share the burden of a facility that may well be replaced in 10 years, when the powers that be
decide that we need yet another upgrade.
Article 2
The construction of the arena will cost the city $300 million. Taxpayers will assume 90 percent
of the cost. Several protesters showed up at city hall Tuesday to express their disapproval of the
decision. They were forcibly removed by police after two hours.
,Which comparison of the two excerpts is most accurate? ✔✔B. Excerpt 1 is subjective and
opinionated, while excerpt 2 is objective and verifiable.
Read the passage from an argumentative essay.
(1) Bernie Sanders has argued that no one should have to pay tuition to go to college. (2) This
will only increase the tax burden on the middle classes.
To improve the relationship between ideas, the writer should revise sentence 2 by ✔✔B. adding
"however" to the beginning of the sentence.
You have been asked to create a multimedia presentation about the dangers of texting and
driving. You have chosen the photo below as the final visual aid for your presentation.
Which heading is the most persuasive for this image? ✔✔D. "Is this text more important than
your life?"
, Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 1, of Julius Caesar.
MESSENGER. Prepare you, generals.The enemy comes on in gallant show.Their bloody sign of
battle is hung out,And something to be done immediately.
ANTONY. Octavius, lead your battle softly on,Upon the left hand of the even field.
OCTAVIUS. Upon the right hand, I; keep thou the left.
How does the use of the word gallant add to the meaning of the sentence? ✔✔D. It suggests that
the enemy is courageous.
Read the passage from "By the Waters of Babylon."
I told and he listened. After that, I wished to tell all the people but he showed me otherwise. He
said, "Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth. It
was not idly that our fathers forbade the Dead Places." He was right—it is better the truth should
come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate
knowledge too fast.
