Main Ideas

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ACT English Skills Review P. 1

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Main Ideas

Main Ideas

Assessment

Quiz

English

8th Grade

Hard

Created by

Sarah Williams

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15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

What is the best question to ask yourself when you are trying to find the main idea?

Who is the main character?

What is the main event?

What is one important detail?

What point is the author trying to make?

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

These connect directly back to the central/main idea.

Sentences

Paragraphs

Supporting Details

Summaries

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In the first half of the nineteenth century, a New York newspaper. The New York Sun, successfully carried out a hoax to the American public. Because of this trick, readership of the paper rose substantially. On August 25, 1835, the Sun published reports that some wonderful new discoveries had been made on the moon. The article described strange, never-before-seen animals and temples covered in shining jewels. Many people were fooled by the story, including some prominent members of scientific community. The effect of the false story on sales of the paper was dramatic. Paper sales increased considerably as people eagerly searched out details of the new discoveries. Later, the newspaper company announced that it had not been trying to trick the public; instead, the company explained the moon stories as a type of literary satire. Which of the following best states the topic of the passage?

A nineteenth-century discovery on the moon

The New York Sun

A hoax and its effect

The success of a newspaper

A newspaper called The New York Sun

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In the first half of the nineteenth century, a New York newspaper. The New York Sun, successfully carried out a hoax to the American public. Because of this trick, readership of the paper rose substantially. On August 25, 1835, the Sun published reports that some wonderful new discoveries had been made on the moon. The article described strange, never-before-seen animals and temples covered in shining jewels. Many people were fooled by the story, including some prominent members of scientific community. The effect of the false story on sales of the paper was dramatic. Paper sales increased considerably as people eagerly searched out details of the new discoveries. Later, the newspaper company announced that it had not been trying to trick the public; instead, the company explained the moon stories as a type of literary satire. The main point of the passage is that...

The New York Sun was one of the earliest American newspaper

The Sun increased sales when it tricked the public with a false story

A newspaper achieved success by writing about the moon

In 1835 some amazing new dicoveries were made about the moon

The newspaper drew public attention on the article about the hoax

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Most of the ice on the Earth, close to 90 percent of it, is covering the surface of the Antartica. It does not snow very much, but whatever snow does fall, it remains there and gets thicker and thicker. In some areas of the southern continent, the ice has possibly been around for as long as a million years and now is more than two miles thick.

The Earth is a cold planet

Most of the Earth’s ice is found in Antartica

It snows more in Antartica than in other places on Earth

Antartica is only two miles wide but it consists 90% ice

The ice in Antartica

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The term ‘primitive art’ has been used in a variety of ways to describe works and styles of art. One way that this term has been used is to describe the early period within the development of a certain style of art. Another way that this term has been used is to describe artists who have received little professional training and who demonstrate a non-traditional naiveté in their work. A wonderful example of this second type of primitive artist is Grandma Moses, who spent all her life living in a farm and working at tasks normally associated with farm life. She did not begin painting until she reached the age of seventy-six, when she switched to painting from embroidery because the arthritis in her hands made embroidery too difficult. Totally without formal education in art, she began creating panoramic images of everyday life on the farm that have achieved international fame. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?

Grandma Moses spent her life in a farm

Art critics cannot come to any agreement on a definition of primitive art

Grandma Moses is one type of primitive artist because of her lack of formal training

Many artists receive little professional training

Grandma Moses received professional training, but preferred living in a farm

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The extremely hot and humid weather that occurs in the United States in July and August is commonly called ‘dog days’ of summer. This name comes from the star Sirius, which is known as the Dog Star. Sirius is the brightest visible star, and in the hot summer months it rises in the east at appoximately the same time as the Sun. As ancient people saw this star rising with the Sun when the weather was at its hottest, they believed that Sirius was the cause of the additional heat; they believed that this bright star added its heat to the Sun’s and these two together made summer so unbearably hot.

The name for the summer days came from Sirius, the Dog star

Dogs generally prefer hot summer days

The hottest days occur in the summer because of the movements of the Sun and stars

Sirius rises at almost the same time as the Sun during the summer

Sirius is the cause of the additional heat

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