This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Act > Act English Practice – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Act English Practice Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. #50 Choose the best option A) NO CHANGE. B) And while it featured. C) And featuring. D) Featured. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 2. Either the boy or the girls (a) in the evening. A) A. walk. B) Walks. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. walk. 3. The rain in Spain falls oftenly/largely/hugely/mainly on the plain. A) Oftenly. B) Hugely. C) Largely. D) Mainly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mainly. 4. This question asks about the essay as a whole.The writer is considering adding the following sentence to the essay:This information is used to help create regional weather forecasts.If the writer were to add this sentence, it would most logically be placed at which of the highlighted points? A) Point B in Paragraph 2. B) Point C in Paragraph 4. C) Point A in Paragraph 1. D) Point D in Paragraph 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point C in Paragraph 4. 5. (1) The Cold War was one of the most interest-ing and troubling times in American history. In the first century of the Industrial Revolu-tion, the country undergoing the most dra-matic change was England. After 1850, the Industrial Revolution spread rapidly$^{1}$ A) Spread with great rapidity. B) Was quickly spreading. C) No Change. D) Spread fast. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spread fast. 6. The police like to question me/myself whenever I have no alibi for me/myself. A) Myself + myself. B) Myself + me. C) Me + myself. D) Me + me. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Me + myself. 7. What is the subject-verb agreement error in this sentence:'The series of events that occurred last summer have shaped my perspective'? A) 'Events' is plural and requires a plural verb. B) 'Occurred' should be 'occurs' to match the subject. C) The sentence contains no error. D) 'Series' is singular and should take the verb 'has' instead of 'have'. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 'Series' is singular and should take the verb 'has' instead of 'have'. 8. The county cleared this path and paved it with packed gravel, so they would have a peaceful place to hike and bike. A) No change. B) Knowing they. C) That they. D) People. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People. 9. Passage 4You should choose the alternative that best expresses the idea in standard written English and is worded most consistently with the tone of the passage. If you believe the original version is best, then choose "NO CHANGE." A) NO CHANGE. B) At. C) Throughout. D) Excepting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 10. The ACT test-taking skill 'Yards After Contact' refers to what? A) Only football-it has nothing to do with the ACT. B) If you feel like you've been 'hit' by a series of hard problems, keep pushing through the test. C) Blitz through the test. D) Thoroughly planning your touchdown dance for once you complete the test. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) If you feel like you've been 'hit' by a series of hard problems, keep pushing through the test. 11. Unless we psychoanalyze ourselves, we may never be aware of the hidden reasons for our actions. This suggests that the notion of free will might have been$^{7}$ an illusion and that our choices are governed by hidden mental processes which we have no control over. A) Has been. B) No Change. C) Would be. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Would be. 12. Which of the following sentences is an example of irony? A) The sun rose in the east. B) The fire station burned down. C) The rain fell from the sky. D) The cat chased the mouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The fire station burned down. 13. Which choice contrasts most directly with the other ways to get involved at the observatory that are mentioned in the paragraph? A) Love the outdoors,. B) NO CHANGE. C) Prefer a warm recliner to an icy peak,. D) Conduct weather research,. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prefer a warm recliner to an icy peak,. 14. She then carries the assortment outside to the wood-fired kiln, it is a brick structure designed to bake pottery to a hardness and transform glazes to glorious colors that drying alone won't achieve. A) The brick structure is. B) Brick. C) NO CHANGE. D) A brick structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A brick structure. 15. Increasingly important A) An increase in importance. B) Increasingly important. C) Importantly increasing. D) NO CHANGE. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NO CHANGE. 16. The Industrial Revolution transformed Western society, creating an inter-national capitalist economy, urbanization, labor reforms, a system to educate the public, $^{3}$ and labor specialization. A) Public education. B) No Change. C) A public education system,. D) Systematizing education. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A public education system,. 17. New research shows that high cholesterol levels are as much a result of heredity as also is a healthy diet and active lifestyle are. A) As both a healthy diet and active lifestyle. B) As are a healthy diet and active lifestyle. C) As a healthy diet and active lifestyle are also. D) Also as are a healthy diet and active lifestyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As are a healthy diet and active lifestyle. 18. Which detail would be relevant to this main idea? There are many fun things to do at the beach. A) Playing kickball can be lots of fun. B) It is fun to walk along the shore and look for shells. C) Some people burn easily in the sun. D) Unfortunately, we don't live that close to a beach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is fun to walk along the shore and look for shells. 19. The Angel purportedly taught Kidd how to summon ghosts and demons to do his bidding, and keep buried riches safe from gold seekers. A) No change. B) Bidding and keep buried riches. C) Bidding, and, keep buried riches. D) Bidding and keep buried riches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bidding and keep buried riches. 20. It is nearly impossible to discern which number the solver has placed incorrectly once an error is discovered. If you don't have a pencil, use a pen to write the digit as a series of light dots. A) Number. B) That number. C) NO CHANGE. D) A number. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NO CHANGE. 21. When the dog chased the cat, ..... ran under the fence. A) He. B) Which. C) They. D) It. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It. 22. There was a small ..... of water in the glass. A) Number. B) Amount. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amount. 23. She seemed so calm telling me this story, and all I could think about was how lucky she was. A) Had thought. B) NO CHANGE. C) Could have thought. D) Think. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NO CHANGE. 24. The teacher told the students to turn in ..... essays. A) Their. B) His. C) Its. D) Her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their. 25. #54 Choose the best option A) NO CHANGE. B) And sticking too tightly. C) Strictly and tightly. D) Too strictly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Too strictly. 26. The seemingly triangular shape of those snowflakes suggests that forming through a different process of chemical bonding. A) The manner in which formation. B) Which had formed. C) That they form. D) No change. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That they form. 27. This allowed the cave-creating process to be a process that repeated at different depths hundreds of feet apart. A) NO CHANGE. B) Repeat again and again at various different depths. C) Repeat at different depths that varied. D) Repeat at different depths. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repeat at different depths. 28. When doing the Humpty Dance, limp to the side like/as if/similar to when/with your leg was broken. A) Like. B) As if. C) With. D) Similar to when. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As if. 29. The father and originator of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), is largely respon-sible for the way we understand ourselves. A) No Change. B) Father (and originator) of. C) Father, and originator of. D) Father of. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Father of. 30. Which of the following is correct?Such equipment, however can alarm or even harm sea life. A) Such equipment; however can alarm or even harm most sea life. B) B. Such equipment, however, can alarm or even harm most sea life. C) A. No Change. D) C. Such equipment however can alarm or even harm most sea life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 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