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English Graduation Review
Georgia High School Graduation
Test
Suppose you are writing an essay about the water
quality for residents in your area. Which of the
following is the best way to state your research
question?
A. What is being done to make our environment
cleaner?
B. Is the water Americans drink becoming more
polluted?
C. Does the water in this community meet health and
safety standards?
D. What are the differences between bottled water and
tap water?
Answer: C. Does the water in this community meet
health and safety standards?
Which sentence would be best to include in a letter to
the school board requesting more
money for the school band?
A. The school band is horrible because the uniforms
are out of fashion.
B. You should have given us more money because our
band is awesome.
C. It isn’t our fault that the band is terrible, so you
shouldn’t blame us.
D. Please consider supporting the band, which is vital
to our school.
Answer: D. Please consider supporting the band,
which is vital to our school.
Which of the sentences below is written correctly?
A. Pat has the best grades in the school.
B. Pat has the better grades in the school.
C. Pat has like the best grades in the school.
D. Pat has the more better grades in the school.
Answer: A. Pat has the best grades in the school.
Of the following, who MOST believed in working hard
and living a strict life from the bible?
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Spanish Explorers:
C. Ames Oglethorpe
D. Puritans
Answer: D. Puritans
How would you improve your understanding of
Transcendentalism?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Read the works of Henry James
Research the life of Samuel Clemens
Read Thoreau’s Walden
Research Natty Bumppo’s adventures on the
American frontier
Answer: C. Read Thoreau’s Walden
To whom did Gertrude Stein’s “The Lost Generation” refer?
A.
B.
C.
D.
American “ex patriots” who disappeared in Europe
Her parents’ generation of wealthy patricians
Unemployed young Americans living in Europe
World War I era artists whose experiences hurt
them
Answer: A. American “ex patriots” who disappeared in
Europe
Early American literature includes works by
A. Native Americans
B. Colonists
C. Settlers
D. All of the above
Answer: D. All of the above
During the late 19th to early 20th century, _____
became a new force in American literature.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Novelists
Dramatists
Women
Poets
Answer: C. Women
The purpose of a presentation can be to inform, to
persuade, or to entertain. For each topic, choose the
letter that best describes the purpose of the
presentation.
How to operate a fire extinguisher.
A. To inform
B. To persuade
C. To entertain
Answer: A. To inform
Why the movie version of The Color Purple is better
than the book.
A. To inform
B. To persuade
C. To entertain
Answer: B. To persuade
Your teacher asks you to use at least three primary
sources in your research paper about an author. Which
of the following would fulfill this requirement?
A. A novel by the author, an interview with the author,
and a letter written to the author
B. A Web site about the author, an encyclopedia entry
about the author, and a diary entry by the author
C. An encyclopedia entry about the author, an email
mentioning the author, and a speech by the author
D. A survey about literature of the time, a journal
article about the author’s work, and a textbook
mentioning the author
Answer: A. A novel by the author, an interview with
the author, and a letter written to the author
After reading a literary critic’s analysis of
Hemingway’s use of bullfighting in his
novel Death in the Afternoon, you restate
her findings in your own words. Which
technique are you using?
A. A direct quote
B. Paraphrasing
C. Summarizing
D. Anecdotal scripting
Answer: B. Paraphrasing
Ben Franklin once said, “early to bed
early to rise makes a man healthy,
wealthy, and wise.” This is an example of
_____.
A. A direct quote
B. Paraphrasing
C. Summarizing
D. Anecdotal scripting
Answer: A. A direct quote
Which if the following would make the MOST
effective research question for a research
paper about American literature?
A. What are molecules?
B. During which years was Willa Cather alive?
C. How did Henry David Thoreau’s friendships
influence his writing?
D. How many books did Flannery O’Connor
write?
Answer: C. How did Henry David Thoreau’s friendships
influence his writing?
Which if the following is an example of a
secondary source?
A. An interview
B. A textbook
C. A speech
D. A poem
Answer: B. A textbook
Choose the sentence that uses the correct punctuation
and capitalization.
A. Let’s go through the tunnel around the park and
down Melcher Street to get home.
B. Let’s go through the tunnel, around the park, and
down Melcher Street to get home.
C. Lets go through the tunnel, around the park, and
down Melcher Street to get home.
D. Lets go through the tunnel, around the park and
down Melcher Street, to get home.
Answer: B. Let’s go through the tunnel, around the park, and
down Melcher Street to get home.
Until this year, mathematics _____ my
favorite subject.
A. Is
B. Are
C. Was
D. Were
Answer: C. Was
What is the primary persuasive technique used in the
following advertisement?
Everyone wants string and shiny hair, and that’s why
women across America are trying our new BelleVitamin
Shampoo. Our shampoo has a fresh, clean scent that
you’ll love. Don’t be left in the cold with dull, boring
hair. Join the rest of us, and try BelleVitamin Shampoo.
We promise others will notice!
A. Stereotyping
B. Bandwagon
C. Card stacking
D. Rhetorical questions
Answer: B. Bandwagon
Maria wants to include a passage from Mark Twain’s
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in her paper, but it
is very long. She thinks she can cut out the middle of
the passage and still keep the more important parts.
What punctuation does she need to add to her excerpt
so that the reader knows she omitted something?
A. Parenthesis
B. A colon
C. A hyphen
D. An ellipsis
Answer: D. An ellipses
Which literary device is used in the following
sentence?
I was so tired last night that I slept like a log.
A. Onomatopoeia
B. Simile
C. Metaphor
D. Hyperbole
Answer: B. Simile
The fact that a sweet carbonated drink has
names like coke, pop, soda, and soft drink
suggests differences in
A. Dialect
B. Spelling
C. Meaning
D. Pronunciation
Answer: A. Dialect
A literary movement emphasizing
emotions and feelings that began in
the late eighteenth century and
ended during the Civil War was
A. Transcendentalism
B. Naturalism
C. Post-Modernism
D. Romanticism
• Answer: D - Romanticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry
David Thoreau represent authors
from which literary movement?
A. Transcendentalism
B. Naturalism
C. Realism
D. Modernism
• Answer: A - Transcendentalism
In what literary era did writers begin
to break with tradition and rebel
against the sentimentality of the
Romantics?
A. Realism
B. Naturalism
C. Transcendentalism
D. Modernism
• Answer: A - Realism
Members of the high school student body
decided to make a presentation to the
administration for support and funds to form a
marching band. Some students decided to
pretend to be the principal and vice principal
arguing against the idea. Other students
responded to their comments.
What problem-solving technique were these
students using?
A. constructing models
B. creating
metaphors
C. brainstorming
D. role-playing
• Answer: D – role-playing
As per your request, I am enclosing a xerox
copy of your account. This statement lists
all of your activities from the last twelve
months. If we may provide any further
assistance, please do not hesitate to contact
us.
This excerpt would most likely come from:
A. Personal Writing
B. Social Writing
C. Academic Writing D. Business Writing
• Answer: D – Business Writing
The correct contraction of they
are is which of the following?
A. theya’re
B. they’re
C. there
D. they’r
• Answer: B – They’re
Use the context clues in the sentence to
decide the best meaning of the
underlined word.
They tried to ameliorate the hostage
crisis with negotiations, but the terrorists
were unreasonable and the situation
worsened.
A. worsen
C. calm
• Answer: D - improve
B. hide
D. improve
Which of the following sentences has a
subject-verb agreement error?
A. Everything is the same as it was when
we left.
B. No one is going to join us for a drink.
C. None wanted to go to the beach.
D. None of the guys is going to the
movie.
• Answer: D – guys/is Corrected – guys/are
Which sentence has the correct
apostrophe usage?
A. Its going to rain.
B. Its’ going to rain.
C. It’s going to rain.
D. I’ts going to rain.
• Answer: C – It’s - (It is) going to rain.
Authors who tell a story using I or
we such as JD Salinger in Catcher In
the Rye are using
A. objective point of view
B. first-person point of view
C. third-person point of view
D. omniscient point of view
• Answer: B – First-person
Clear, direct language and
ordinary, everyday events
characterize
A. Realism
B. Modernism
C. Transcendentalism
D. Naturalism
• Answer: A - Realism
Puritan writing is characterized by
A. fiction
B. drama
C. sermons
D. humor
• Answer: C - Sermons
Native American literature was
characterized by which of the
following?
A. poetry
B. drama
C. symbolic writing
D. oral tradition
• Answer: D – Oral Tradition
Complete the analogy:
Doctor is to Patient as Lawyer is to ___
A. Judge
B. Criminal
C. Client
D. Bailiff
• Answer: C - Client
During what time period was there
the first significant movement of
black writers and artists?
A. the Colonial Period
B. the Harlem Renaissance
C. Modernism
D. Post-Modernism
• Answer: B – Harlem Renaissance
Choose the following word that matches
the definition:
A way of speaking that is characteristic
of a social group or of a certain
geographical area.
A. Epithet
B. Assonance
C. Dialect
D. Diction
• Answer: C - Dialect
An expository passage is most
likely written to
A. narrate
B. entertain
C. inform
D. persuade
• Answer: C - inform
All of the following are examples of facts,
except
A. Mt. Rainier, in Washington State, is 14,410
feet.
B. Vermont is the state with the smallest
black population.
C. Franklin Roosevelt was the first president
to use the radio as a communication device.
D. Women firefighters are more capable in
their work than male firefighters.
• Answer: D
Place the following events in their proper order:
1. Finally, results are analyzed and interpreted with
respect to the perceived “correctness” of the
hypothesis.
2. Predictions are made based on the hypothesis, and
methods are designed for testing those predictions.
3. The experiment is conducted and data are collected.
4. Experimental design begins with asking a question
and forming a testable hypothesis.
A. 1,3,2,4
C. 3,2,1,4
• Answer: D
B. 1,3,4,2
D. 4,2,3,1
Which statement expresses an opinion
rather than a fact?
A. Patrick Henry delivered his “Give me
liberty or give me death” speech in 1775.
B. Jacqueline Kennedy was the wife of
President John F. Kennedy.
C. George Washington was the most
admired president of all time.
D. “The Gift of the Magi” was written by O.
Henry.
• Answer: C