AP-Style Multiple-Choice Quiz (Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood)

AP-Style Multiple Choice Quiz

Richard Rodriguez, "Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood"

After reading the selection from “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood,” choose the best answer to each question. Click the submit button when finished. The following questions refer to paragraphs 3–9.

Question 6.21 The principal contrast employed by the author in this passage is between

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Question 6.22 The rhetorical device most in evidence in paragraphs 3 and 4 is

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Question 6.23 The tone of paragraph 5 can best be described as

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Question 6.24 In the sentence that begins “Not to understand this” (bottom of para. 5), which of the following are parallel in structure and function?

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Question 6.25 The rhetorical effect of paragraph 6 is that it

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Question 6.26 In the clause “the confidence of ‘belonging’ in public was withheld from them both” (para. 7), the author employs the passive voice chiefly as a means to

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Question 6.27 That the author’s parents refer to others as “los americanos” (end of para. 7) is ironic chiefly because

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Question 6.28 In paragraph 8, the sentences “We were the people with the noisy dog. The people who raised pigeons and chickens. We were the foreigners on the block” contain an example of

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Question 6.29 In context, the phrase “in counterpoint” (middle of para. 9) can best be interpreted to mean

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Question 6.30 In the last sentence of paragraph 9, the author uses multiple adjectives to modify “reminder of being at home” to

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