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11.Which of the following sentences is the only one that needsa colon?
A. Horseshoes are considered symbols of luck and good fortune.
B. Work horses, racing horses, and show horses all need horseshoes.
C. A number of ancient cultures used horseshoes, including Greeks, Romans, and Druids.
D. Horseshoes are made from a variety of metals steel, aluminum, and titanium.
12.When you join two independent clauses with a conjunctive adverb (like however or therefore), what punctuation mark should go before the adverb?
A. Comma
B. No punctuation is needed. C. Semicolon
D. Colon
13. What does the semicolon in the following phrase do? He had not thought of that; he stammered:
A. Introduces the driving action
B. Connects two pieces of dialogue
C. Links independent clauses
D. Introduces a quotation
14. Which word most closely replaces the word “station”in the following excerpt from “The Necklace”? All these things, which another woman of her station would not have noticed, tortured and angered her.
A. Position
B. Acceptance
C. Astonishment
D. Superiority
15. Which of the following statements about fictional narratives is true?
A. They contain only characters based on real-life people.
B. They’re always written from the author’s point of view.
C. They can be written only in a very formal style.
D. They use fictional characters to comment on real-life circumstances.
16. Which detail from Emma Lazarus’s biography is most ful in understanding her poem “The New Colossus”?
A. Lazarus grew up reading and studying American and British literature and learned several languages.
B. Lazarus died shortly after the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, most likely from lymphoma, at age 38.
C. Being Jewish herself, Lazarus was especially attentive to the plight of Russian- Jewish refugees fleeing from persecution.
D. Emma Lazarus was born in 1849 to a wealthy family of Portuguese-Jewish descent in New York City.
17.Which of the following sentences uses semicolons correctly?
A. Wombats have pouches like kangaroos; similarly; their babies are called joeys.
B. Wombats only live in Australia; nevertheless, they are my favorite animal.
C. Wombats look like teddy bears however; you shouldn’t pet them in the wild.
D. Instead of finding them cute; many farmers are annoyed by burrowing wombats.
18. In “The New Colossus,”lines 9-10 (“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!”cries she / With silent lips.) mark a change in tone and rhyme scheme. What part of the sonnet do they represent?
A. Octave
B. Couplet
C. Volta
D. Quatrain
19. De Maupassant’s surprise ending is an example of
A. figurative language.
B. romanticism.
C. sarcasm.
D. situational irony.
20. In the first eight lines of “The New Colossus,” the speaker refers to
A. a torch that looks like lightning.
B. the Statue of Liberty.
C. a statue similar to the Statue of Liberty.
D. a famous Greek statue.