Read the passage and answer the question that follows: Slaves in the South were very religious people. They identified with stories in the Bible about suffering. They had they own songs, called spirituals, that expressed their feelings of distress. Slaves looked to God to provide them with a better life. Unfortunately, slaves did not have their own churches, but were forced to attend white-led plantation churches. Choose the sentence that corrects a historical inaccuracy in the passage.

Which word best describes the storm’s attitude toward the farm in the second stanza (lines 10 – 20)?

What is the effect of the metaphor in these lines from a poem? Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea, London has swept about you this score years And bright ships left you this or that in fee: Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things, Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price. (from "Portrait d'Une Femme" by Ezra Pound) It creates a mysterious impression of the subject. It creates a straightforward impression of the subject. It creates a plaintive tone. It creates an exultant tone.

Select the sentence with a clause used as a predicate noun. The boy who arrived here Tuesday was running late. We left the diner late because we saw some old friends. The reason she bought those shoes was that her friend told her to.

Which term best describes the surface quality of an object, or how it feels or appears to feel to the touch?a. space
b. texture
c. value
d. weight

Which sentence uses an elongated hyphen correctly? Amber likes dancing – and singing, so she has practiced both since she was a little girl. Hilary – Daniel – and Andre love Broadway musicals, so they joined the show choir at their school. The band -- is looking for a new drummer because their former drummer moved to a different town. Andrew wanted to learn to play the guitar – even though he couldn’t read music – so he could join a band.

How is a compound sentence formed? A. By joining a dependent and independent clause with a conjunction
B. By joining a simple sentence with a dependent clause
C. By joining two simple sentences with a comma and a coordinate conjunction
D. By joining two independent clauses and one dependent clause