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Test Preparation Resource for Oklahoma Priority Academic Student Skills (Pass) TEST PREPARATION RESOURCE FOR OKLAHOMA PRIORITY ACADEMIC STUDENT SKILLS (PASS) EMCParadigm Publishing Saint Paul, Minnesota Staff Credits Editorial Design Laurie Skiba Shelley Clubb Editor Production Manager Brenda Owens High School Editor C. Vern Johnson Senior Designer Lori Ann Coleman Middle School Editor Erica Tava Diana Moen Electronic Design and Associate Editor Production Assistant Gia Marie Garbinsky Assistant Editor Jennifer Joline Anderson Assistant Editor Janice Johnson Curriculum Specialist Paul Spencer Art and Photo Researcher Anne Todd Educational Writer Cover Credits Cover Designer: C. Vern Johnson Gas [Detail], 1940. Edward Hopper. Last of the Buffalo [Detail], 1889. Albert Bierstadt. His Hammer in His Hand [Detail], from the John Henry Series, 1944–7. Palmer Hayden. © 2002 EMC Corporation All rights reserved. The assessment materials in this publication may be photocopied for class- room use only. No part of this publication may be adapted, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without permission from the publisher. Published by EMC/Paradigm Publishing 875 Montreal Way St. Paul, Minnesota 55102 800-328-1452 www.emcp.com E-mail: [email protected] Printed in the United States of America. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 XXX 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 Contents Test-Taking Skills Practice Worksheets . .1 Preparing for Tests . .1 Strategies for Taking Standardized Tests . .2 Taking Objective Tests . .3 Reading Comprehension Questions . .4 Reading 1 from “On the Road with Grandpa” by Neil Hebbert . .5 Reading 2 “The Fox and the Crow” by Æesop . .6 Reading 3 from “Mozart, My Hero” by Niko Tsubota . .7 Reading 4 “Birches” by Robert Frost . .8 Reading 5 from “Researching Harper Lee Online” by Minna Brown . .10 Reading 6 from “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry . .11 Reading 7 from “The Not-So-Great Debate” by Kristy Cady . .13 Reading 8 from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare . .15 Reading 9 from “Why Classes Separated by Gender Do Not Work” by Rachel Cobb . .17 Reading 10 from “An Encounter with an Interviewer” by Mark Twain . .18 Reading 11 from “Mess Your Way to Success” by Sarah Richards . .20 Reading 12 from “The Grass” by Marjory Stoneman Douglas . .21 Reading 13 from “Drawing Together in a Smaller World” by Ariana Sarar . .23 Reading 14 “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” by Emily Dickinson . .24 Reading 15 from “Where Do I Want My Talents to Take Me?” by Neil Rosen . .25 Reading 16 “Overcoming the Odds” . .26 Reading 17 from “What’s for Dinner?” by Heath Brinker . .28 Reading 18 “A Poison Tree” by William Blake . .30 Reading 19 from “Crazy Quilt” by Roger Jansky . .31 Reading 20 “The Courage That My Mother Had” by Edna St. Vincent Millay . .33 Reading 21 from “Live for Tomorrow” by Cheryl Mackrory . .34 Reading 22 “Edith Wharton” . .35 Reading 23 from “The Clone Basketball Game” . .36 Reading 24 from “Nightmare Number Three” by Stephen Vincent Benét . .38 Test Preparation Resources . .40 Answer Key . .42 © EMC EXPERIENCING LITERATURE TEST PREPARATION RESOURCE iii Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ Test–Taking Skills Practice Worksheets PREPARING FOR TESTS Tests are a common part of school life. These guidelines will help you prepare for and take a test. TEST-TAKING TIPS Preparing for a Test Taking a Test • Know what you will be tested on. •Quickly preview the test to note the number and types of questions. •Make a study plan to allow enough time to go over the material. • Read directions and questions carefully. •Make lists of important points and ask some- • Allow extra time for long-answer questions. one to quiz you on them. Skip questions that seem difficult and go back to them later. •Try to predict questions that may be on the test and practice answering them. • Review your work before submitting it. •Get plenty of sleep the night before and eat a healthy breakfast. EXERCISE Test-Taking Strategies Write a brief response to each set of suggestions above. Do you use these strategies now? Which would help you most on your next test? 1. Preparing for a test 2. Taking a test © EMC EXPERIENCING LITERATURE TEST PREPARATION RESOURCE 1 Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ STRATEGIES FOR TAKING STANDARDIZED TESTS A standardized test measures overall ability, or achievement over a period of time. On standardized tests, answers are recorded in a special format because they are scored by computer. You mark your answers on a separate answer sheet by blacking in a small circle under the option you have chosen. The computer then scans these marks to record the number of correct answers. To make sure your answers are scanned accurately, be sure to fill in all circles solidly. •When selecting answers on a standardized test, keep these points in mind: • If you do not know the answer, try to rule out some choices and then guess from those remaining. • If a question seems too difficult, skip it and go back to it later. Keep in mind, though, that most tests allow you to go back only to questions within a section. EXERCISE Taking Standardized Tests Read, or reread, the section “Figurative Language” on page 18 of your textbook. Then fill in the circle that corresponds to the best answer to each question. 1. A synonym for hyperbole is _______. A B C D a. understatement b. exaggeration c. alliteration d. comparison 2. Saying “the White House” when you mean the president of the United States is an example of _______. A B C D a. metaphor b. personification c. synecdoche d. metonymy 3. Synaesthesia, metaphor, and hyperbole are all examples of _______. A B C D a. persuasive techniques b. rhetorical techniques c. figurative language d. literal language 4. Which line or lines from “Elegy for Jane” by Theodore Roethke on page 781 of your textbook contain a simile? A B C D a. “I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils.” b. “And she balanced in the delight of her thought, / A wren, happy, tail into the wind.” c. “The sides of wet stones cannot console me.” d. “The shade sang with her.” 2 TEST PREPARATION RESOURCE EXPERIENCING LITERATURE © EMC Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ TAKING OBJECTIVE TESTS The questions on objective tests have a single correct answer. Two common kinds of objective-test ques- tions are true/false and multiple-choice. The guidelines below can help you answer these kinds of questions effectively. TIPS FOR ANSWERING OBJECTIVE-TEST QUESTIONS True/False Words like all and never often appear in false statements. Words like most and often frequently appear in true statements. If any part of a statement is false, then the statement is false. Multiple-Choice Read all choices first. Rule out incorrect answers; then chose the answer that is most accurate or complete. Pay special attention to choices such as none of the above or all of the above. EXERCISE Answering Objective-Test Questions Turn to page 520 of your textbook and read “About the Author” and “About the Selections,” which introduce the poet Wallace Stevens. Then answer each set of questions. True/False. Note whether each statement is true or false. 1. Wallace Stevens never held a regular job. 2. Stevens maintained contact with certain well-known poets. 3. Stevens wrote poems in high school and published his first book of poetry before graduating. 4. Stevens’s poetry was published in the first half of the twentieth century. Multiple-Choice. Choose the best answer to complete each statement. 5. Stevens spent most of his life in _______. a. Albuquerque, New Mexico b. New York City c. Hartford, Connecticut d. Reading, Pennsylvania 6. Both selections by Stevens treat the relationship of _______. a. weather and mood b. work and art c. perception and imagination d. animals and humans © EMC EXPERIENCING LITERATURE TEST PREPARATION RESOURCE 3 Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS Reading comprehension questions ask you to read a short piece of writing and answer several questions about it. To answer reading comprehension questions, follow these steps: 1. Read through all the questions quickly. 2. Read the passage with the questions in mind. 3. Reread the first question carefully. 4. Scan the passage to look for key words related to the question. When you find a key word, slow down and read carefully. 5. Answer the question. 6. Repeat this process to answer the rest of the questions. EXERCISE Answering Reading Comprehension Questions Select the best answer to the questions that follow this excerpt from the second inaugural address of Abraham Lincoln (on page 386 of your textbook). On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan––to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
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