Question: An inference needs to be supported by_______ in the text.

Answer: Evidence

Question: In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is a protagonist because he is a

Answer: sympathetic main character facing a challenge.

Question: Read Romeo’s dialogue from Act V, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.

How fares my Juliet? That I ask again;

For nothing can be ill if she be well.

Which of Romeo’s tragic flaws does this dialogue reveal?

Answer: He has juvenile ideas about love.

Question:

Answer: to persuade

Question: Which theme is best expressed in “The Gift of the Magi”?

Answer: True love is thoughtful and considerate.

Question: If the author of “The Gift of the Magi” had made the reader aware of the gift that Jim had purchased in the beginning of the story, this would be an example of

Answer: dramatic irony.

Question:

Answer: the Phippsburg townspeople, who do not think much of Malaga Island, and Turner, who comes to love the island.

Question:

Answer: Caution and precision enabled Wyke’s cable-tapping success.

Question: Which sentences are punctuated correctly? Check all that apply.

Answer: The nurse, who was kind and compassionate, bandaged my thumb.

The coach with the red jacket just paid my brother a huge compliment.

Leonardo da Vinci—painter and sculptor—was part of the Renaissance.

Question:

Answer: Every family should buy local produce because it is more nutritious, it requires less packaging, and it promotes energy conservation.