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Etruscan innovations in which of the following areas most led to the founding of Rome as a classical civilization?(1 point)
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From what city did the Ur-Namma attempt to govern the empire?(1 point)
Responses a. Uruk b. Ur c. Nimrud d. Babylon
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What main role did enslaved people play in Mesopotamian society?(1 point)
Responses They owned businesses and contributed to the
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What main role did enslaved people play in Mesopotamian society?(1 point)
Responses a. They owned businesses and contributed to
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What helped the Mauryan Empire maintain power across a big geographical area?(1 point)
Responses a. stone edicts b. strong
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How did people become bureaucrats both during Emperor Wudi’s rule and in future dynasties?(1 point)
Responses a. They had to
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Confucianism originated from(1 point)
Responses a. the writings of Zhuangzi. b. the poems of the Yijing. c. the writings of
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How did the maritime trade routes of the Indian Ocean develop?(1 point)
Responses a. The growth of African city-states led to an
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Which of these statements best describes the Han dynasty?(1 point)
Responses a. Shi Huangdi ruled as the first Han emperor. b.
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Which of the following statements about Christianity is true?(1 point)
Responses a. Christianity was outlawed until Emperor
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Why was the Edict of Milan a significant event in the development of Christianity?(1 point)
Responses a. It sentenced Jesus to be
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In 1054, what action did the leaders of the Eastern and Western Churches take against each other?(1 point)
Responses a. Both the
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Which statement describes how primary and secondary sources are useful for understanding historical events, such as the rise of
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How does Islamic expansion demonstrate the idea that religion transforms societies?(1 point)
Responses a. The religion of Islam
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What evidence supports the claim that trade changed after the fall of Constantinople?(1 point)
Responses a. The Ottomans started
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How does Judaism connect to Christianity and Islam?(1 point)
Responses a. Judaism is a polytheistic religion that evolved into
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Islamic women during the Middle Ages had which of the following rights, regardless of their marital status?(1 point)
Responses a.
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What do primary sources reveal about the relationships between Christians and Jews in Spain during the Middle Ages?(1 point)
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Which of the following was a reason the Bantu migrated?(1 point)
Responses a. to follow herds of migrating animals b. depletion
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Which West African empire declined after an invasion by the Almoravid Muslims?(1 point)
Responses a .Timbuktu b. Mali c. Ghana d.
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Which statement accurately describes the cultural significance of the trans-Saharan trade route and the Indian Ocean basin
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How were the societies on the Swahili coast of East Africa impacted by their role in the global economy?(1 point)
Responses a.
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What is an example of a secondary source a historian could use to study Genghis Khan?(1 point)
Responses an account of Genghis
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What is an example a secondary source a historian might use in a study of the negative effects of the Mongolian Empire on
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Which of the following best explains how Japan was organized politically during the medieval period?(1 point)
Responses a. A
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Other than speed, what is a main advantage of using caravels for long-distance exploration and trade?(1 point)
Responses a.
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Which is a reason a ruler in Africa, India, and China might not be accepting of Portuguese traders?(1 point)
Responses a. The
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Which continent was depicted most favorably, in terms of sophistication, in The Costumes of the Various Nations of Europe, Asia,
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What is one reason for the rise of the feudal system out of the fall of the Roman Empire?(1 point)
Responses a. The increased
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The Bayeux Tapestry, one of the most detailed sources that chronicles William the Conqueror’s rise to power, might not tell
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How did European Christians try to maintain their hold on Jerusalem after the First Crusade?(1 point)
Responses a. They created
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What is one thing we know about Charlemagne from Einhard’s biography?(1 point)
Responses a. Charlemagne could not write. b.
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What was one common feature that Sofonisba Anguissola shared with her male counterparts who were part of the Renaissance art
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What is one similarity shared by English philosopher Sir Thomas More and English housewife Margaret Clitherow?(1 point)
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What subject played a key part in scientific achievements?(1 point)
Responses a. math b. Islam c. law d. Greek
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Explain why artistic patronage by wealthy families was a new concept during the Renaissance.(1 point)
Responses a. Before the
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Why was it difficult for the Inca and the Aztec to trade with one another?(1 point)
Responses a. trade competition b.
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How did environmental degradation contribute to the Mayan civilization’s collapse?(1 point)
Responses a. Natural disasters
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How did the Mexica kingdom first grow at Tenochtitlan?(1 point)
Responses a. The Mexica got a lot of tax income from the Tepanecs
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Based on the history of the Aztec Empire, which of the following best explains why empires often sought to expand their
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What was the common administrative unit used by the Inca?(1 point)
Responses a. Tawantinsuyu b. Quechua c. quipu d. ayllu
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What did the Aztec and Inca both attempt to do to eliminate the Spanish threat to their respective empires?(1 point)
Responses a.
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1. Read the following sentences from "The censors."
"Poor Juan! One day they caught him with his guard down before he could
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"Poor Juan! One day they caught him with his guard down before he could realize that what he had taken as a stroke of luck was
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"Our teacher, a cold gentle girl who wore glasses with thin gold rims and in the stiff solicitude of certain poses resembled a
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3. Which of the following sentences from "Day of the Butterfly" does not support the story's theme of the struggle, as humans,
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4. Which of the following sentences from "The Balek Scales" does not support the story's theme of oppression and inequality? (1
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"Once we had a country and we thought it fair,
Look in the atlas and you'll find it there: We cannot go there now, my dear, we
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"She said, "Younger sister,
You are the owner of sons, If you ask us for baobab leaves, what are we supposed to do? Your lame son
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7. Read the following sentences from "In the Shadow of War."
"He sat on the windowsill and waited for the woman. The last time he
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8. Read the following sentences from "First Confession."
"Then, to crown my misfortunes, I had to make my first confession and
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"The towns in the valley went about their daily life, deaf to the moaning of the earth, until that fateful Wednesday night in
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11. Read the following sentences from "In the Shadow of War."
"He followed her till they came to a muddied river. She moved as if
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"When Mother was at work and my grandmother made the dinner I wouldn't touch it. Nora once tried to make me, but I hid under the
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"When Mother was at work and my grandmother made the dinner I wouldn't touch it. Nora once tried to make me, but I hid under the
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The consul banged a table and said:
"If you've got not passport you're officially dead": But we are still alive my dear, but we
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To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all" - Which of the following stylistic
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"I'm not doing all this for you. I'm doing it for your dead mother. Because you were her son. That's why I'm doing it. She
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He heard me. He stood up. He maneuvered with his oars and headed the boat towards me. He had accepted my offer. And suddenly I
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17. Read the following sentences from "The Pig" in which the main character, Kibuka, receives a surprise gift from his grandson.
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18. Each of the following lines from "Alone" contain examples of alliteration except(1 point)
Responses "Then something caught: a
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"My father was a dutiful, orderly, straightforward man. And according to several reliable people of whom I enquired, he had had
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"Old Misery-whose real name was Thomas-had once been a builder and decorator. He lived alone in the crippled house, doing for
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"The idea of eating the pig had never entered Kibuka's mind. While sitting beside the body, he had been seriously considering
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"Africa my Africa
Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs Africa of whom my grandmother sings On the banks of the distant
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23. Each of the following descriptions from "The Destructors" is an example of direct characterization except(1 point)
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Many years have passed since. I have long been eating pork like everyone else, though perhaps this does not make me any happier.
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"My grandfather walked the two hours home through the forest, got a beating when at home, said nothing, not a single word, when
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27. Each of the following lines from "Sunjata" contains an element of epic poetry except(1 point)
Responses a. "Through sorcery
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"Blackie said uneasily, "It's proposed that tomorrow and Monday we destroy Old Misery's house."
"Here, here," said a fat boy
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scribes the reporter, Rolf Carle.
"Nothing could stop him, and I was always amazed at his equanimity in the face of danger and
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"it must have been then that I noticed the shelf at about one height with my head. It was really a place for grown-up people to
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31. Read the following passage from the beginning of "Rhinoceros."
"We were sitting outside the cafe, my friend Jean and I,
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And when I had said this my heart beat more firmly.
He heard me. He stood up. He maneuvered with his oars and headed the boat
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33. Which of the following works is NOT an adverb?(1 point)
Responses a. more b. perhaps c. too d. two
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34. The fearful look on Tom's face showed us that he was cowering while on the ledge. Cowering means that he was(1 point)
Respons
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35. Which statement is spoken in a colloquial manner?(1 point)
Responses a. "And I'm going to show you that it ain't no trouble
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36. Identify the underlined part of speech.
"Dolley Madison, the wife of the fourth United States president, is one of history's
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37. Identify the underlined part of speech.
"The dynamic wife of James Madison became the unofficial first lady during
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38. Which of the following sentences contains a helping verb?(1 point)
Responses a. Eduardo looked in the basement, but the puppy
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39. In the following sentence, "famous" is the complement. What kind of complement is it?
"In 1975, Margaret Thatcher became
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40. Choose the answer that correctly identifies the underlined word.
"The ice fields of the north are still relatively barren."
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41. Choose the answer that correctly identifies the underlined word.
"The grain of the western prairies is a major source of
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42. Choose the answer that correctly identifies the underlined word.
"Western Canada also gives us the art of the Kwakiutl
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43. In the following sentence, what kind of phrase is "to play basketball"?
"Porpoises have been trained to play basketball." (1
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44. In the following sentence, what kind of phrase is "to the library"?
"I will be going to the library soon." (1 point)
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45. In the following sentence, what kind of phrase is "Moving away"?
"Moving away made my little cousin sad." (1 point) Responses
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46. What is the tense of the underlined verb in the following sentence?
"I will be studying his painting techniques this
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47. What is the definition of personification?(1 point)
Responses a. the reason a writer writes about a topic b. identified as
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Which of the following cities is representative of a complex society from the Indus River Valley civilization?
(1 point)
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Which of the following best explains why architecture was used extensively in both river valley civilizations and classical
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What civilization wrote the first known code of laws?(1 point)
Responses Hammurabi’s Babylonian Empire Hammurabi’s Babylonian
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What civilization wrote the first known code of laws?(1 point)
Responses a. Hammurabi’s Babylonian Empire b. the Assyrians c.
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How did Hatshepsut succeed despite Egyptian patriarchal society?(1 point)
Responses a. She used typical signs of male power, such
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What did the early city-states create that the Zhou and Qin dynasties expanded upon?(1 point)
Responses a. warfare b. horseback
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Which Chinese philosopher did Emperor Wudi of the Han dynasty make the central focus of his government?(1 point)
Responses a.
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How were relationships between societies impacted by the Indian Ocean trade network?(1 point)
Responses a. Islam spread
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Which Chinese dynasty originated the “Double Tax” system in the eighth century CE?(1 point)
Responses a. Han b. Zhou c. Qin
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Which statement best describes the process Alexander the Great undertook to build the empire from a lens of historical
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How were Greek myths and religious practices passed down before 800 BCE?(1 point)
Responses a. through written stories b. through
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