Module I: Reading and Writing

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In the early 1800s, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah created the first script, or writing system, for an Indigenous language in the United States. Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so accurately, his script was easy to learn and thus quickly achieved _____ use: by 1830, over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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widespread
careful
unintended
infrequent
Like the 1945 play it reimagines—Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba—Marcus Gardley’s 2014 play The House That Will Not Stand prominently features women. In both plays, the all-female cast _____ an array of female characters, including a strong mother and several daughters dealing with individual struggles.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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engulfs
encourages
comprises
provokes
During a 2014 archaeological dig in Spain, Vicente Lull and his team uncovered the skeleton of a woman from El Algar, an Early Bronze Age society, buried with valuable objects signaling a high position of power. This finding may persuade researchers who have argued that Bronze Age societies were ruled by men to _____ that women may have also held leadership roles.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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waive
concede
refute
require
The following text is adapted from Oscar Wilde’s 1895 play The Importance of Being Earnest
CECILY: Have we got to part?
ALGERNON: I am afraid so. It’s a very painful parting.
CECILY: It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
As used in the text, what does the word “endure” most nearly mean?
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Regret
Persist
Tolerate
Encourage
The following text is from the 1924 poem “Cycle” by D’Arcy McNickle, who was a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
There shall be new roads wending,
A new beating of the drum—
Men’s eyes shall have fresh seeing,
Grey lives reprise their span—
But under the new sun’s being,
Completing what night began,
There’ll be the same backs bending,
The same sad feet shall drum—
When this night finds its ending
And day shall have come.....
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
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To consider how the repetitiveness inherent in human life can be both rewarding and challenging
To question whether activities completed at one time of day are more memorable than those completed at another time of day
To refute the idea that joy is a more commonly experienced emotion than sadness is
To demonstrate how the experiences of individuals relate to the experiences of their communities
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