AP-Style Multiple-Choice Quiz (James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers”)
AP-Style Multiple Choice Quiz
James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers”
After reading the selection from “A Talk to Teachers,” choose the best answer to each question. Click the submit button when finished. The following questions refer to paragraphs 4–7.
Question
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Question
The organizational pattern of paragraphs 4 and 5 can best be described as
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Question
Which of the following rhetorical devices can be found in paragraph 6?
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Question
What is the best way to describe the author’s attitude in this excerpt?
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Question
The author’s use of the first and third person in paragraph 5 serves to
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Question
Baldwin’s reference to “the pimps, the whores, the junkies” toward the end of paragraph 5 functions to
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Question
In context, “sinister” (end of para. 7) means
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Question
It can be inferred from Baldwin’s language in the conclusion of the passage (para. 7) that
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