1.4.3 Test Cst Apex English 11

Question: Which sentence from the Declaration of Independence best develops the idea that representative government is the basis of our constitutional democracy?

Answer: That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Question: Which sentence from the Declaration of Independence best develops the idea that people have a right to revolt against a tyrannical authority?

Answer: When any Form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it.

Question: Which sentence from the Declaration of Independence best develops the idea that King George III abused his executive powers in relation to the colonies?

Answer: He has refused his Assent to Laws, most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

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Answer: The colonists have reason to form a new government.

Question: Read the sentence from the Declaration of Independence. Which idea does this sentence best help to develop?

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government . . .

Answer: The colonists should separate from Great Britain and create their own government.

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Answer: The colonists should separate from Great Britain.

Question: These sentences use personification.

Answer: Huge waves crashed onto the deck, and the ship rejected us.

She tried starting the fussy car until it finally growled to life.

A wise old tree had kept watch over the ranch since the 1920s.

Question: Read the sentence from Patrick Henry’s Speech to the Virginia Convention. Why is this sentence an example of the use of metaphor?

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Answer: The word “lamp” is equated with the word “experience.”

Question: Read the sentence from Common Sense. Why is this sentence an example of the use of simile?

The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak.

Answer: A fracture and an engraved name are compared using the word “like.”

Question: Read the sentence from The Declaration of Independence. Why is this sentence an example of the use of personification?

They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.

Answer: The word “voice” gives “justice” and “consanguinity” a human quality.