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One of the four items that follow is a complete sentence. Choose the complete Sentence. |
| | A) | Spoon River Anthology, a collection of fascinating poems that were written
by Edgar Lee Masters. |
| | B) | Each poem spoken by a dead
person. |
| | C) | Buried in the cemetery of a small American village that Edgar Lee
Masters created in his mind as the setting for this book. |
| | D) | The people who tell
us about their lives in these poems are based upon real people from Edgar Lee Masters's hometown. |
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One of the four items that follow is a complete sentence. Choose the complete sentence. |
| | A) | Luddites, English textile workers who rioted in the early part of the nineteenth century. |
| | B) | They got their name from Ned Ludd, a fictional character. |
| | C) | Fearing that new ways of making cloth would cost them their jobs. |
| | D) | Destroyed machines that the factory owners had bought to increase production. |
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Three of the items that follow are fragments. Choose the item
that is not a fragment. |
| | A) | The poet Countee
Cullen. |
| | B) | Was an important figure of the Harlem
Renaissance. |
| | C) | This was an important literary movement. |
| | D) | Which included many African-American poets and novelists. |
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Three of the items that follow
are fragments. Choose the item that is not a fragment. |
| | A) | Located
along the path of the sun, moon, and major planets. |
| | B) | Are the twelve
constellations of the Zodiac. |
| | C) | A constellation is a group of
stars. |
| | D) | To which names have been given according to the shapes these groups
seem to form. |
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Three of the items that follow are fragments. Choose the item that is not a fragment. |
| | A) | If you say that you were born in Santiago. |
| | B) | You must explain to which Santiago you are referring. |
| | C) | Santiago, the capital of Chile. |
| | D) | Santiago
de Cuba, Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic, or Santiago de Compostela in Spain. |
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Three of the items that follow are fragments. Choose the item that is not a fragment. |
| | A) | In Spoon River Anthology, which is by Edgar Lee Masters. |
| | B) | The characters tell us much about their town, their friends, and their neighbours. |
| | C) | And about life in their times. |
| | D) | Revealing long-kept secrets. |
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One of the four items that follow is a fragment. Choose the fragment. |
| | A) | If you're writing about Queen Mary of Britain, make sure your readers know which queen you are referring
to. |
| | B) | Are you referring to Mary Tudor of England, who became known as "Bloody
Mary"? |
| | C) | There is also Mary II. |
| | D) | Who was married to William of Orange and whose title was Queen of England, Scotland, and
Ireland. |
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One of the four items that follow is a fragment. Choose the
fragment. |
| | A) | During the chemistry examination on Tuesday morning, the
room was silent and all of the students concentrated hard on the difficult problems Professor Mendoza had warned them about. |
| | B) | During the chemistry examination on Tuesday morning, while the students concentrated hard on the difficult problems
that Professor Mendoza had warned them about. |
| | C) | It was Tuesday morning, and the
room was silent as the students concentrated hard on the difficult problems on the chemistry examination, which Professor Mendoza had warned them
about. |
| | D) | The room was silent and all of the students concentrated hard on the
difficult problems on the chemistry examination, which Professor Mendoza had warned them about. |
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One of the four items that follow is a fragment. Choose the fragment. |
| | A) | Perhaps the most notorious concentration camps in history are Auschwitz and
Dachau. |
| | B) | Auschwitz is in Poland, Dachau in Germany. |
| | C) | Along with many other death camps built by the Nazis. |
| | D) | Auschwitz and Dachau were used to imprison and kill millions of Jews, Poles, and other groups the Nazis called
"undesirable." |
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One of the four items that follow is a fragment. Choose the fragment. |
| | A) | Nagasaki, Japan, is important for two reasons. |
| | B) | It was the first Japanese city to trade with the West. |
| | C) | Also, at the end of World War II, the target of an atomic attack by a U.S. bomber. |
| | D) | Seventy-five thousand people were killed or hurt in this air raid. |
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One of the four items that follow is a fragment. Choose the fragment. |
| | A) | The United States Congress, which is the legislative branch of the federal government. |
| | B) | Congress is made up of two houses: the Senate and the House of
Representatives. |
| | C) | Senators are elected every six years. |
| | D) | Representatives serve two-year terms. |
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One of the four items that
follow is a fragment. Choose the fragment. |
| | A) | The vernal equinox
marks the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. |
| | B) | The autumnal
equinox, which in 1995 fell on September 23. |
| | C) | It marks the beginning of fall
in the Northern Hemisphere. |
| | D) | On these dates, day and night are exactly the
same length. |
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