LA6B Unit 1 Review

Which word is spelled incorrectly?

• narration

• narrateing

• narrate

• narrator

Which word is spelled incorrectly

• swiming

• swimmer

• swimmers

• swim

Which word is spelled incorrectly?

• diveing

• dive

• diver

• divers

Which excerpt from "Mary Cassatt: Artist and Trailblazer" best supports the idea that Cassatt blazed a trail for future female artists?

• "More than any other person, Mary Cassatt helped introduce Americans to the work of the Impressionists."

• "In Paris, Cassatt studied with successful artists. She carefully copied paintings in the Louvre."

• "Though women in her time had little freedom and few choices, she achieved her ambition to become a professional artist."

Which excerpt from "Marion Anderson Sings" best supports the idea that Anderson helped ease discrimination for African American performers?

• "I had become, whether I liked it or not, a symbol, representing my people. I had to appear."

• "How would Anderson like to sing on Easter Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial? It would be an outdoor concert, free, open to all—and with no segregation."

• "But across the footlights Anderson often saw only white faces. In many cities, in the South especially, people of her own race had to sit up in the balcony."

Which excerpt from "Marian Anderson Sings" best supports the idea that Anderson witnessed a positive shift in attitude of many Americans towards African Americans?

• "'I had a feeling that a great wave of good will poured out from these people, almost engulfing me.'"

• "To sing at the Lincoln Memorial would be a bold political statement."

• "Of all who gathered that day at the Lincoln Memorial, no one could have been moved more deeply than Marian Anderson."

Based on details in "Washed-up Plastics Become Art With a Vital Message," what can be inferred about how people are responding to the problem of pollution?

• Pozzi's work is in demand because people are more aware and concerned about how pollution impacts animals.

• Experts from foreign countries are sharing their solutions with the city of New Orleans to fix its pollution problem.

• People overseas were mostly unconcerned about pollution prior to seeing Pozzi's work.

Based on details in "Washed-up Plastics Become Art With a Vital Message," what inference can be made?

• Animals eat plastic because they mistake it for food.

• It can be difficult for Pozzi to find material for her art.

• People only dispose of items of little value in the ocean.

• Freshwater animals suffer the most harm from plastics.

Based on the details in "'Equal Justice Under Law': Thurgood Marshall," what can be inferred about how children responded to segregation?

• Unlike the adults around them, black and white children were more accepting of one another.

• Most children were unaffected because their parents won lawsuits to end segregation.

• Most children adopted their parents' attitudes about race.

What is a central idea of "Mohandas Ghandi: Truth in Action"?

• Ghandi led his people to independence and self-sufficiency without using violence.

• Ghandi believed the Untouchables deserved more rights than other Indians.

• Ghandi thought South Africans should let Indians sit anywhere on trains.