Unit+2+Post+Test+Questions

Unit 2 Post Test Questions 

Sudan’s Lost Boys Find A Home 1. Multiple Meaning Read this phrase from the article: “He was unprepared for this new world glazed in ice…” What is the __main__ __point__ the author is trying to convey? a. There was ice on the ground.  b. Wal felt unwelcome in his new surroundings.  c. He missed the warm African weather.  d. He was impressed by the beauty of his new home.

(I wrote a multiple meanings using this same quote.-George) Read these sentences from the passage. "In his small village in Africa, strangers were welcomed warmly. He was unprepared for this new world glazed in ice." In the sentences above, what does the phrase glazed in ice reveal about Wal's adjustment to the U.S.? a. He never felt cold weather before and hated it. b. He expected to have a royal welcome when he arrived. c. He felt the people were rude and unfriendly when he arrived. d. He didn't know where to find a coat to cope with the cold weather.

 2. Words and Phrases Read this sentence: “Wal knew instantly that his home had become a __casualty__ of Sudan’s long and bloody civil war.”

What is the meaning of the word casualty?

a. Loss  b. Gain  c. Luck <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> d. Occasion

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Author’s Purpose <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Based on the title, “Sudan’s Lost Boys Find a Home”, what was the author’s purpose for writing the article?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. To entertain the reader <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> b. To persuade the reader to take action <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> c. To describe a person, event, or issue <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> d. None of the above

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Lost Boys of Sudan

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Main Idea <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read the paragraph, “Thousands of boys walked south and out of Sudan. Months later over 10,000 boys walked across the border to Kenya and into a refugee camp. It was now 1992. The boys arrived with their ribs sticking out, swollen, blistered feet and eyes enormous from years of hunger, No one knows for sure how many more thousands of boys did not make it. Some news reports suggest perhaps seven thousand boys died during the ordeal.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unfortunately, life in the refugee camp was also harsh. Dysentery and malaria plagued the camp and rations were small. They ate mostly wheat flour and dried corn. They slept on plastic sheets on top of the dirt. School was outdoors with up to one hundred students in many of the classes.”

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is the __main__ __idea__ for this paragraph?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. An explanation of the boy’s lives in Sudan before the war <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> b. An explanation of how the boy’s lives improved when arriving in Kenya <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> c. A description of the boy’s new lives in America <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> d. A description of the difficult journey to Kenya taken by many Sudanese boys.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Author's Purpose

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The author of this article would most likely make the statement that <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. village communities of war torn countries should be trained to protect themselves. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. civil war torn countries should solve their own troubles with no outside assistance. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">c. those who survive mass genocide should be protected, monitored, and receive financial assistance for the rest of their lives. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">d. governments of industrialized nations need to unite and do more to help war torn countries.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6.Words/Phrases

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read this sentence from the article, “The Lost Boys of Sudan.” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“They could see lions and hyenas stalking them in the tall brush.” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Which word from the article, if used to replace stalking, would create the most opposite image of the animals? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. following <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. watching <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">c.leading <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">d. driving

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. Main Idea

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read this sentence from the article, “The Lost Boys of Sudan.” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“When they arrived in our country, they had to learn to turn the doorknob to open the door, how to cook on a gas or electric stove, and, of course, not to put lettuce in the freezer! Walking through an automatic opening door would throw some into fits of giggles.” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What does the sentence above tell readers about some African nations? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. They enjoy making fun of modern technology. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. Many have not been exposed to the basic living luxuries. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">c. Many choose not to use technology in order to remain true to cultural heritage. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">d. There are no stoves in Sudan.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">EDITING AND REVISING WRITING

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) The novelist John William De Forest knew what he was talking about. (2) He served as a Union captain during the civil War. (3) When he wrote his novel. (4) He had already experienced the suffer of war he had been wounded and taken to a field hospital. (5) In his novel //Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty//, De Forest wrote realistic about Captain Colburne’s wound and hospital stay. (6) I have always wondered how it felt to be a soldier injured in battle. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(7) De Forest did not make war seem exciting or beautiful. (8) The Civil War was a terrible time. (9) When he described two dead soldiers, he noted “one with his brains bulging from a bullet-hole in his forehead, while a dark claret-colored streak crossed his face, the other’s light-blue trousers soaked with a dirty carnation stain of life-blood.” <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(10) The writer uses many describe words to get the picture across. (11) War was bloody, filthy, disgusting. (12) No winners in such a battle. (13) Anyone who read his book would understand what the fighting was really like.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. What is the BEST way to change sentence 3?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. He had already experienced the suffering of war when he was wounded and taken to a field hospital. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b.He was already experiencing the suffer of war; he had been wounded and taken to a field hospital. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">c. He had been wounded, and taken to a field hospital, and experienced already the suffering of war. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">d. Already he had experienced the suffer of war he had been wounded and taken to a field hospital.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9. Which sentence should be omitted from David’s report? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">a.sentence 2 (He …War.) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">b.sentence 3 (When...novel.) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">c.sentence 4 (He....hospital) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">d. sentence 6 (I...battle)


 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Thomas Edison ** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Thomas Edison was born in 1847, a time when there were no electric lights, no ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">2 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">movies, and no CD players. In fact, Edison himself invented many things that made ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">3 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">these things possible. Including some inventions that changed the world forever. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">4 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The electric light bulb perhaps had the biggest impact. This meant factories could ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">5 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">be open at night. They could make more products. People had to work more hours ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">6 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">some even worked “third shift.” Another new invention. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">7 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Edison had over one thousand patents. One of his well-known inventions was ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">8 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">the phonograph. This was like a CD player that was not digital. A needle would go ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">9 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">around a disc that had etching in it. This would reproduce the sounds that were ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">10 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">recorded on the disc. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">11 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Edison also invented the motion picture camera. This camera only took pictures, ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">12 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">so the first movies were silent. It would be many years before sound is part of movies. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">13 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Will they’re ever be a modern Edison? It would be great to see the things he or she ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">14 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">would invent. I hope so. ||

10. The sentence that is in the wrong place is a. In line 7 (Edison...patents.) b. in lines 5-6 (people...shift) c. in lines 11 (Edison...camera) d. in line 14 (I hope so.)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11.What is the BEST transitional word to add to the beginning of the sentence in line 11 (Edison…camera.)? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a.Nevertheless, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. Amazingly, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">c. But <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">d. Since

12. Multiple Meanings

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read the sentence below and choose the answer in which the underlined word is used in the same way.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">'It will take courage to __**tackle**__ that problem." a. Let's grab our fishing tackle and go to the lake b. It's a difficult job, but someone must tackle it. c. The movers used a tackle to lift the heavy furniture. d. The tackle positioned himself between the guard and the end.

13. Author's Purpose Read these sentences from the article, "The Lost Boys of Sudan." "They were surprised to see homeless people pushing along their belongings in a cart. In their tribal culture, if someone was sick or mentally impaired the people in their village took care of them. Nobody there was ever homeless until the war."

The author uses this comparison of Sudanese culture with American culture to a. show how caring and loyal the Sudanese are. b. persuade Americans to donate to charity. c. encourage readers to research mental illnesses. d. emphasize the selfishness of Americans.

14. Word/Phrase Relationships Read these sentences from the article, "The Lost Boys of Sudan." "They are handsome young men with beautiful and genuine smiles. They are grateful for the opportunity to just be alive after the horrible ordeal. They are truly an extraordinary example of the will to live and the strength of the human spirit."

What do the sentences above tell readers about the Lost Boys of Sudan? a. They are excited about life in America. b. They value life and are willing to fight for it. c. They are good looking, strong men. d. They still think about the past and miss home.

15. Relevant Details According to the article, "Sudan's Lost Boys Find a Home", what was the cause of the boys "hunger" for education? a. Moving to America and not knowing how to use a microwave. b. The "cultural orientation" classes and their IRC workers. c. The displacement from Sudan and being introduced to the U.N. workers. d. The displacement and relocation in a refugee camp to watch others read.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">16. Words and phrases

What does "they faced "strange" customs" mean in in the second paragraph in A Brand New future section mean? a. They thought Americans were wierd. b. They were not use to our food. c. They did not understand being homeless. d. Not taking care of the sick people.

17. Authors purpose

Why do you think the author mentions Darfur at the end of the article? a. In hope something will be done. b. So people will pay attention to the news. c. So we can see how history repeats. d. So people donate to the Red Cross.

Why did the author include the descriptions of the boy arriving in Kenya with their ribs sticking out, swollen, blistered feet and eyes enormous from years of hunger? a. To give a visual of what they look like b. to give a visual of the journey c. To give an explanation on why they left d. To give an explanation of the journey

In this text what does felled mean? they felled small trees in the nearby forest using long knives... a. knocked down b. c. cut d. ate

They could see lions and hyenas stalking them in the tall brush. Which sentence below uses the word in the same way as used in the article a. He was so angry he stalked away without saying goodbye b.Stalking is now a crime in many states c. Famine stalked through the nation d.

Why did the author begin the article with The Journey? a. To introduce background information about the journey b. To introduce the importance of the journey c. To introduce the obstacles of the journey d. To introduce new places seen by the boys on the journey

What does the word intact mean? a. perfect b. odd c. not altered or broken d. an outer edge