AP-Style Multiple-Choice Quiz (Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature)
AP-Style Multiple Choice Quiz
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature
After reading the selection from Nature, choose the best answer to each question. Click the submit button when finished. The following questions refer to paragraphs 1–6.
Question
12.10 Throughout the essay, the author’s attitude toward nature is one of
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12.11 What is the primary rhetorical function of the sentence “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!” (end of para. 1)?
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Question
12.12 The author’s references to childhood in paragraphs 2 and 4 serve to
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Question
12.13 Near the end of paragraph 4, the author’s statement “I become a transparent eye-ball” functions as
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12.14 Which of the following explains the author’s purpose for writing “The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental” (end of para. 4)?
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12.15 Throughout the essay, the author uses the following techniques to illustrate nature EXCEPT
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12.16 The phrase “tricked in holiday attire” in paragraph 6 refers to
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12.17 The writer characterizes himself as someone who is
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