Act English Practice Quiz 17 (30 MCQs)

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1. Which sentence is correctly punctuated and uses proper coordination?
2. Repression is the act of pushing our con-flicts to the unconscious. So that$^{9}$ we are no longer aware of them, It is our chief$^{ }$defense mechanism (a way to avoid conflict between our true desires and our senses of right and wrong).
3. Choose the option that correctly fills in the blank."Neither the players nor the coach ..... happy with the referee's decision."
4. Before iron was discovered, there is only bronze weapons.
5. These adherents of Sikhism, millions of whom live in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent-classify service in three forms:physical service, mental service, and material service.
6. #51 Which choice offers the most specific description of a characteristic of Howe's painting?
7. On either side of him is a dog that the boy holds the dogs' collars in his hands.
8. In fact, the popu-lation growth in England was so dramatic that the countries population doubled between 1750-1820.$^{8}$
9. Test strategy:when reordering sentences look carefully at the answer choices that are
10. (1) player's number's
11. Even though we were late we understood the lesson and we were able to do the assignment.
12. Chicago Cubs fans have been waiting since 1908 for another World Series win. Many superstitious (a) place the blame not on the players or managers but on a goat.
13. A deep ideo-logical battle between the two countries-one communist, the other capitalist-was already in place; and$^{8}$ each country was determined to outdo the other. Two years later, in 1947, President Truman established the Truman Doctrine.
14. I think she had way to many things on her mind.
15. On the ACT, the English test wants you to OMIT examples that contain redundancy.
16. As he pursued a degree in physics he drove a taxi to pay the bills, but competitive training proved his passion.
17. The sound of sap dripping into galvanized metal signal the beginning of the season to gather syrup.
18. "This vast chapel displays what many (a) of the most important works of Renaissance art:Michelangelo's awe-inspiring frescoes."
19. Employing their best defense mechanism against the approaching shark, the school fish quickly collected themselves, swam closely together to look like one big fish.
20. Choose the sentence that correctly uses a comma to separate an introductory element.
21. There ..... several reasons for the delay.
22. Neither of the solutions ..... effective.
23. The woman, knowing it was late, hurried home.
24. One C+ kept the student from honor roll first quarter; ..... she's working extra hard this quarter to get all As and Bs.
25. We thrill to cinematic images of sleek sloops silhouetted by full moons sailing the Seven Seas in search of gold, silver, damask and jewels.
26. In that letter, Einstein tells Roosevelt that it was possible to create an atomic weapon, and he asked Roosevelt to fund$^{ }$research and experiment$^{3}$ in atomic weapons. Roosevelt agreed, and the government created the Manhattan Project, a massive effort to develop nuclear weapons.
27. After waiting for an hour n the rain, the sun once came out, and we were able to play.
28. The committee finished ..... report early.
29. Several key discoveries and inventions enabled the Industrial Revolution to take place, included machines and tools like the cotton gin, the radio, the circular saw, $^{ }$the cylindrical press, and steam engine.$^{5}$
30. If the alarm had gone off earlier, more people could of escaped before the building collapsed.