Question 1

What is the central idea of the passage?

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Chicago students’ service learning benefits the community as well as themselves.

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By allowing students to do service learning, Chicago high schools are helping reintroduce native plant species.

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All Chicago high school students are required to do service learning.

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Chicago high schools offer students many different options for classes.

Question 2

Which detail from the text best supports the idea that students must be responsible for their own education?

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“Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have the responsibility to yourself to discover what that is.”

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“And that’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education.”

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“Every single one of you has something you’re good at.”

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“Maybe you could be a good writer...but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class.”

Question 3

What is the purpose of this paragraph in Barack Obama’s speech?

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To demonstrate the necessity of education to every student’s future career

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To explain the difficulties of obtaining an education

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To explain that a good job can’t be attained without an education

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To argue for the importance of staying in school

Question 4

Which answer best describes the main theme of the poem?

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True love permeates every aspect of life, and is stronger than death.

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There is nothing worse than lost love.

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Love is stronger than death, especially when it’s been lost.

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Love should always be freely given.

Question 5

Which detail from the text best supports the idea that the speaker loves the object of their affections  all day, every day?

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[Line 5] I love thee to the level of every day’s / Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

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[Line 1] How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

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[Line 8] I love thee purely, as men turn from praise.

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[Lines 11-12] I love thee with a love I seemed to lose / With my lost saints.

Question 6

How does the speaker saying “I love thee with...my childhood’s faith” [Lines 10-11] support the theme?

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It illustrates the strength of the speaker’s love by comparing it to the blind faith of a child.

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It highlights how long the speaker has felt this way.

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It emphasizes how the speaker’s love is as strong as religion.

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It reveals that the speaker is also deeply religious.

Question 7

What is the tone of this non-fiction passage?

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Warning

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Upset

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Concerned

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Skeptical

Question 8

What does the word “indispensable” most closely mean, as used in Paragraph 2?

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Addictive

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Disgusting

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Crucial

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Expensive

Question 9

What can be inferred about the health of longtime smokers from the information in Paragraph 2?

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They are very likely to develop lungs’ cancer.

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They will die of arsenic poisoning.

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They are still “chainsmokers”

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Anyone who puffs a friend’s cigar will definitely become a chainsmoker.

Question 10

Which provides the BEST objective summary of the passage?

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Many teens start smoking to be cool or accepted, but it’s a toxic habit that can ultimately kill you if done long-term.

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Smoking is a disgusting habit.

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Teens who smoke don’t care about dying.

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Anyone who becomes a chainsmoker is weak and can’t resist peer pressure.

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