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1. In which two ways does the poet develop the speaker’s point of view in the second stanza (lines 8–14)? Select the two correct answers.2026 Practice Test A English, question 4
   • Type Author's purpose and point of view
   • NYS standards 7R6, 7R4
   • Difficulty 3 of 5
   • Format Multiple response
2. Read this sentence from paragraph 1. As one Scottish traveler observed during his visit to America, “Niagara and Lowell are the two objects I…2026 Practice Test A English, question 36
   • Type Text structure
   • NYS standards 7R5
   • Difficulty 3 of 5
3. Read this sentence from paragraph 3. From the early to mid-1800s, women left the constricted lifestyle of small rural towns and rural areas for…2026 Practice Test A English, question 39
   • Type Text structure
   • NYS standards 7R5
   • Difficulty 4 of 5
   • Level Above grade 7
4. How does the author develop the contrast between the narrator’s point of view and the professor’s point of view?2026 Practice Test B English, question 22
   • Type Author's purpose and point of view
   • NYS standards 7R6, 7R5
   • Difficulty 4 of 5
   • Level Above grade 7
5. Read lines 30–32 from the poem. Their names sound like dinosaurs or maybe bands playing terrible music in someone’s garage. The speaker refers to…2026 Practice Test B English, question 26
   • Type Text structure
   • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
   • Difficulty 3 of 5
6. How does the structure of the poem affect the poem’s meaning?2026 Practice Test B English, question 36
   • Type Text structure
   • NYS standards 7R5
   • Difficulty 3 of 5
7. 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…2026 Practice Test B English, question 38
   • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
   • NYS standards 7R2, 7R5
   • Difficulty 3 of 5
8. Read this sentence from paragraph 3. These are the lower rapids, a sight more terrifying than the Falls, because less intelligible. Which statement best…2026 Practice Test C English, question 8
   • Type Text structure
   • NYS standards 7R5
   • Difficulty 4 of 5
   • Level Above grade 7
9. How does the repetition of “ ‘This is the beginning of summer’ ” in lines 2–3 and lines 18–19 contribute to the meaning of…2026 Practice Test C English, question 22
   • Type Text structure
   • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
   • Difficulty 2 of 5
10. How does the poem’s form contribute to the poem’s meaning?2026 Practice Test C English, question 26
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
11. Read line 28 from the poem. At the mouth end, there was an oval mound How does the line contribute to the development of…2026 Practice Test C English, question 29
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R6
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
12. Read this sentence from paragraph 5. As the velocity of the wind was over 35 feet per second and the speed of the machine…2026 Practice Test D English, question 12
    • Type Author's purpose and point of view
    • NYS standards 7R6, 7R1
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
13. The use of chronological structure contributes to the development of ideas in the excerpt by2026 Practice Test D English, question 14
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
    • Level Below grade 7
14. Why does the author include details about the conversation between Starr and Darimont in paragraph 2?2026 Practice Test D English, question 16
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
15. The use of italics on the word “night” in line 24 is most likely intended to emphasize the2026 Practice Test D English, question 23
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
16. What is the purpose of the repeated words “rising and falling” in lines 26 and 37?2026 Practice Test D English, question 24
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
17. Read this sentence from paragraph 2. Including both ideograms (which convey a whole word or idea, either concrete or abstract, in a single sign)…2025 Practice Test A English, question 10
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
18. The diagram after paragraph 6 best provides additional support for the topic of the excerpt by2025 Practice Test A English, question 14
    • Type Textual evidence, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R1, 7R2
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
19. How does paragraph 9 fit into the overall structure of the excerpt?2025 Practice Test A English, question 37
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
20. Determine whether each sentence from the excerpt presents a claim or presents evidence to support a claim. Select all the correct answers.2025 Practice Test B English, question 8
    • Type Textual evidence
    • NYS standards 7R8, 7R1
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
    • Format Table grid
21. The author’s use of sequence in paragraphs 1 and 2 contributes to the development of ideas in the excerpt by2024 Test A English, question 11
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
22. Read this sentence from paragraph 7. Always after these confining lessons I was wild with surplus spirits, and found joyous relief in running loose…2024 Test A English, question 15
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
23. The isolation of the words “—here here—” in line 7 contributes to the meaning of the poem mainly by2024 Test A English, question 20
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 5 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
24. Read this sentence from paragraph 4. During her first channel-crossing attempt she had worn a standard one-piece swimsuit that, after the lengthy hours of…2024 Test A English, question 27
    • Type Word meaning and figurative language
    • NYS standards 7R4, 7L4a
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
25. Which statement describes how the author’s use of a problem-and-solution structure in paragraph 5 contributes to the development of ideas in the passage?2024 Test A English, question 28
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
26. The table builds on the information in the passage mainly by2024 Test A English, question 34
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R1
    • Difficulty 5 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
27. How does paragraph 7 fit into the overall structure of the passage?2024 Test A English, question 38
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R6
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
28. The studies described in paragraph 6 are important to the author’s observations in paragraphs 7 and 8 because the findings2024 Test A English, question 40
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R8
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
29. Read these sentences from paragraph 4. I’m not sure why I decided to take a look. It was still an hour before sunrise, and…2024 Test A English, question 44
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
30. In paragraph 8, the author repeats the word “played” most likely to2024 Test B English, question 26
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
31. How do paragraphs 11–13 affect the plot of the excerpt?2024 Test B English, question 27
    • Type Text structure, Development of ideas and characters
    • NYS standards 7R3, 7R5
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
32. Read this sentence from paragraph 5. Empires rose and fell; wars raged;… and the tree from 2500 B.C. continued its implacable slow-motion existence, adding…2024 Test B English, question 52
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
33. Paragraph 4 contributes to the development of ideas about La Cocina in paragraph 1 by2023 Test B English, question 11
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
34. Read this sentence from paragraph 5. A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a…2023 Test B English, question 32
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
35. How does the poet develop the points of view of the structure and the water?2023 Test B English, question 42
    • Type Author's purpose and point of view
    • NYS standards 7R6, 7L5a
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
36. What is the most likely reason the author uses the word “surprisingly” in paragraph 1?2018 Test A English, question 12
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
37. In paragraph 4, the word “insurmountable” is used to highlight2018 Test A English, question 20
    • Type Word meaning and figurative language
    • NYS standards 7R4, 7L4a
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
38. Which statement describes how the author’s use of problem-and-solution in paragraph 5 contributes to the development of ideas in the passage?2018 Test A English, question 21
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
39. The table contributes to the development of the topic of the passage mainly by2018 Test A English, question 25
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R1
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
40. Read this sentence from paragraph 3. Evidently the friend remarks that a last year’s grasshopper leg is a very noble acquisition, and inquires where…2018 Test A English, question 33
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
41. Read lines 18–20 from the poem. You are some tears dribbling from a mountain’s eye, running down the pavements of small towns, into the…2018 Test A English, question 45
    • Type Word meaning and figurative language
    • NYS standards 7R4, 7L5c
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
42. How does the poet develop the points of view of the structure and the water?2018 Test A English, question 49
    • Type Author's purpose and point of view
    • NYS standards 7R6, 7L5a
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
43. How does the form of the poem contribute to its meaning?2018 Test A English, question 50
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R6
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
44. The author includes the details in paragraph 4 about the eruption of Mount Tambora in order to2018 Test A English, question 55
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
45. What is the primary role of paragraph 1 in the structure of the passage?2018 Test B English, question 14
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
46. Read this sentence from paragraph 3. These are the lower rapids, a sight more terrifying than the Falls, because less intelligible. Which statement best…2018 Test B English, question 27
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
47. What role does paragraph 2 play in the structure of the passage?2018 Test B English, question 34
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
48. What is the most likely reason the author mentions the zooarchaeologist (paragraph 5)?2018 Test B English, question 37
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 3 of 5