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.

Question 10.28 In the second sentence of paragraph 1, the word “it” is an antecedent for

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Question 10.29 In the first sentence of paragraph 2, “germinal” most nearly means

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Question 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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Question 10.31 It can be inferred from the passage that language is

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Question 10.32 The purpose of providing examples of definitions in paragraph 3 is to

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Question 10.33 The analogy at the end of paragraph 2 serves to

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Question 10.34 The speaker of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements?

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Question 10.35 What is the purpose of including the quotation from Addington Symonds (para. 4)?

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