2023 Test A English

How should the paragraph be revised? (1) Danielle spent several hours preparing for an upcoming audition for a play at the community theater. (2) First she did vocal exercises to…

Read this paragraph. In September 2016 the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened as part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum is already the Smithsonian’s third most…

How does the structure of the poem affect the poem’s meaning?

Which lines support the idea that a change in the weather will lessen the speaker’s appreciation for the city?

Read lines 5–6 from the poem. The weather will turn cold. But that all happens later. How do the lines develop a central theme of the poem?

Read lines 7–9 from the poem. For now it is the early edge of fall, leaves green still while the air narrows, is slightly crisp, The word choice in the…

The details in lines 9–12 convey a central idea of the poem by

Which idea does the comparison of the brownstone houses to “a pop-up picture book I could have had as a child, / but didn’t” in lines 20–21 convey?

Read these lines from the poem. I can already see how this will end. (line 1) How Brooklyn makes me nostalgic for the moment I am walking inside of. (lines…

The speaker’s thoughts throughout the poem develop a theme by showing that

The poet develops the speaker’s point of view by

Paragraph 1 contributes to the setting of the excerpt by establishing that

In paragraphs 4 and 6, the beginning of the change in seasons affects the characters mainly by

How do paragraphs 7 and 9 convey a central idea of the excerpt?

In paragraph 8, the author repeats the word “played” most likely to

How do paragraphs 11–13 affect the plot of the excerpt?

In paragraph 20, the phrases “trophies of their hunt” and “paraded around” affect the paragraph by

Which quotation from the excerpt best supports the idea that The People feel a connection to members of their group in spite of distance?

Read these sentences from paragraph 22. “Belongs to Red Bear people. Gone then come back.” How does this statement affect the villagers in the excerpt?

The details in paragraph 5 about the locations of the camps and the details in paragraphs 23–24 about the reaction to the woman convey a theme of the excerpt by

According to the passage, how did fires started by natural causes prompt American Indians to begin practicing controlled burns?

Targeting red cedar trees in controlled burns affects the animals that live on the prairie mostly by

Read this sentence from paragraph 6. The patch-burn system is so successful that the conservationists at the preserve provide training to prairie farmers about conducting controlled burns on their own…

Which details from the passage best convey the central idea that using the patch-burn method is an effective way to protect and manage prairie land?

Which sentence supports the idea that farmers and people who manage land may be concerned about using fire as a way to benefit the land?

Read this sentence from paragraph 6. Burning land to make it healthy may seem counterintuitive, but strategic controlled fires have helped the prairie sustain life for hundreds of years and,…

With which statement would the author most likely agree?

How do the diagram and its text provide additional support for the topic presented in the passage?