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Section 4: Sample Selected-Response Questions TX PACT: English Language Arts and Reading: Grades 7–12 (731)Expand All Answers | Collapse All Answers This section presents some sample exam questions for you to review as part of your preparation for the exam. To demonstrate how each competency may be assessed, sample questions are accompanied by the competency that they measure. While studying, you may wish to read the competency before and after you consider each sample question. Please note that the competency statements do not appear on the actual exam. The correct answer is provided for each sample exam question. The sample questions are included to illustrate the formats and types of questions you will see on the exam; however, your performance on the sample questions should not be viewed as a predictor of your performance on the actual exam. Domain I—Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, and Reading Various Text FormsCompetency 001—Understand strategies for developing vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension.1. Which of the following pairs of words acquired new, specialized meanings due to the influence of the field of psychology?
Competency 002—Understand strategies for reading informational texts.2. Read the excerpt below; then answer the question that follows.
For which of the following statements does this excerpt offer a sufficient amount of supporting detail?
Competency 003—Understand strategies for reading persuasive texts.3. Read the excerpt below; then answer the question that follows.
Which of the following statements best describes the effect of the author's use of a rhetorical technique in this excerpt?
Competency 004—Understand strategies for reading technical and functional texts.4. An individual reads the instructions below for acquiring an absentee ballot. She provides her local board of elections with her driver's license, a statement identifying the election in which she would like to vote, and an address to which she would like the absentee ballot mailed.
Based on these instructions, this individual will need to provide which of the following additional materials in order to acquire an absentee ballot?
Domain II—Analyzing and Interpreting LiteratureCompetency 005—Understand strategies for analyzing and interpreting various forms of literary nonfiction, fiction, and drama.5. Read the excerpt below from an autobiographical work; then answer the question that follows.
In this excerpt, the narrator's tone reflects an attitude of:
Competency 006—Understand strategies for analyzing and interpreting various forms of poetry.6. Read the excerpt below from a work of poetry; then answer the question that follows.
Which of the following figures of speech is used in this excerpt to emphasize the passionate nature of the speaker's appeal?
Competency 007—Understand the major characteristics of literatures from around the world.7. Which of the following statements best describes the stylistic and thematic characteristics of a fable?
Competency 008—Understand the major historical, social, cultural, and political aspects of literatures from around the world.8. Read the excerpt below from "The Cry of the Children," a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; then answer the question that follows.
In this excerpt, Browning is most likely trying to influence public opinion about which of the following social issues?
Domain III—English Language Conventions, Composition, Writing Process, and ResearchCompetency 009—Understand the conventions of Standard American English and the elements of effective composition.9. A writer has drafted the short paragraph below as part of a persuasive essay.
Which of the following sentences would be most effective for the writer to use in the blank as a conclusion to this paragraph?
Competency 010—Understand the writing process.10. A writer has drafted the short paragraph below as part of an expository essay.
Which of the following edited versions of this paragraph should the writer choose to use in the essay to engage the reader more fully and provide the clearest meaning?
Competency 011—Understand the elements of effective and appropriate research.11. A writer is developing a research paper and decides to use the passage below to support an idea in the paper.
Which of the following attempts to quote and paraphrase this passage would be most appropriate for the writer to use in the paper?
Domain IV—Modes of WritingCompetency 012—Understand strategies for narrative writing.12. Which of the following versions of a paragraph from a personal journal best demonstrates the use of vivid, concrete details to describe a place?
Competency 013—Understand strategies for expository writing.13. A writer develops the topic sentence below for a paragraph in an expository essay on ancient Egyptian architecture.
Which of the following supporting details would be most effective for the writer to use in the paragraph with this topic sentence?
Competency 014—Understand strategies for persuasive writing.14. A writer has drafted the short paragraph below as part of a newspaper editorial.
Which of the following sentences would be most effective for the writer to use in the blank in this paragraph to anticipate and respond to a potential counter-argument?
Competency 015—Understand strategies for critical or analytical writing.15. A primary purpose of analytical writing in response to literature is to:
Domain V—Oral and Visual CommunicationCompetency 016—Understand strategies for effective listening and speaking and for participating in group discussions.16. A dinner guest has just finished a delicious meal and feels full but could eat more if it were considered socially appropriate to do so. The host, at whose home the dinner has taken place, approaches the guest, and the conversation below occurs.
Which of the following factors would be most important for the dinner guest to consider before responding to the host?
Competency 017—Understand strategies for effective viewing and presenting and for analyzing various media.17. The diagram below is used in a magazine article about coffee consumption in the United States.
Which of the following statements describes the most significant way in which this diagram is misleading?
Return to Navigation Which of the following best describes the relationship between the trends depicted by the three maps together?Which of the following best describes the relationship between the trends depicted by the three maps together? Canals helped open the market economy to the westward lands, promoting migration to those lands.
Which of the following best explains a long term result of the development depicted in the excerpt?Which of the following best explains a long-term result of the development depicted in the excerpt? New forms of mass media contributed to the spread of national culture.
Which of the following best explains Lodge's point of view on markets in the excerpt?Which of the following best explains Lodge's point of view on markets in the excerpt? Many Americans believed that acquiring island territories would encourage economic development.
Which analysis of the changes in the US economy during the early 1800s is most clearly supported by the developments shown in the illustrations?Which analysis of the changes in the U.S. economy during the early 1800s is most clearly supported by the developments shown in the illustrations? Investment in transportation and infrastructure set the stage for U.S. industrialization.
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