AP-Style Multiple-Choice Quiz (Walt Whitman, “Slang in America”)
AP-Style Multiple Choice Quiz
Walt Whitman, “Slang in America”
After reading the selection from “Slang in America,” choose the best answer to each question. Click the submit button when finished. The following questions refer to paragraphs 1–4.
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10.28 In the second sentence of paragraph 1, the word “it” is an antecedent for
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10.29 In the first sentence of paragraph 2, “germinal” most nearly means
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10.30 Which of the following noun phrases does the author use to illustrate that language is derived from every living organism?
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10.31 It can be inferred from the passage that language is
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10.32 The purpose of providing examples of definitions in paragraph 3 is to
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10.33 The analogy at the end of paragraph 2 serves to
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10.34 The speaker of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements?
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10.35 What is the purpose of including the quotation from Addington Symonds (para. 4)?
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