This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Act > Act English Practice – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Act English Practice Quiz 4 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. During the holidays, my family and I traveled further than we did last year. A) Traveled farther. B) Traveled far. C) NO CHANGE. D) Traveled furthermore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traveled farther. 2. For grammar and usage questions, look at ..... choice first. A) Shortest answer. B) Longest answer. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shortest answer. 3. Which detail would be relevant to this main idea? Even though they sit still for long periods of time, frogs can actually move pretty quickly. A) Frogs live near creeks and ponds where there is water to drink. B) Frogs like to eat insects, mostly flies and mosquitos. C) A frog's tongue can roll out and catch a fly in less than a second. D) Frogs can be very patient while waiting for their food to fly by. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A frog's tongue can roll out and catch a fly in less than a second. 4. My father asked about the cobblestone road which Grandpa and him had built together. A) NO CHANGE. B) Grandpa and himself. C) He and Grandpa. D) Himself and Grandpa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He and Grandpa. 5. When Jenny reads her answer choices she marks out the obviously wrong answer choices. This strategy is called ..... A) Mark and Move. B) Cherry Picking. C) Two Wrongs Make a Right. D) The Process of Elimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Process of Elimination. 6. We lost all electrical power at 9:00 p.m. last Monday. It wasn't restored until the following afternoon. A) One. B) Tomorrow. C) Later. D) NO CHANGE. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NO CHANGE. 7. Weather, and also from the intense heat of summer. A) NO CHANGE. B) Weather, and but also from the intense heat of summer. C) Weather, but the intense heat of summer in addition. D) Weather, and from the summer heat's intensity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 8. The Cold War was one of the most interest-ing and troubling times in American history. Several dramatically important historical events$^{1}$ led to the Cold War. First, in 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A) No Change. B) Important dramatic historical events. C) Important historical events. D) Dramatically historical events. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Important historical events. 9. What does 'historical significance' refer to? A) The importance of an event, person, or site in shaping history and its impact on society. B) A measure of how well a historical event is documented. C) The popularity of a historical figure in modern culture. D) The financial impact of historical events on current economies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The importance of an event, person, or site in shaping history and its impact on society. 10. #58 Choose the best option A) For whom. B) For who. C) NO CHANGE. D) Whom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NO CHANGE. 11. For the Thanksgiving reunion, relatives were sitting in the dining room, on the porch, and in the carport. A) Thanksgiving, reunion. B) Were, sitting. C) Porch and. D) No error. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No error. 12. This angered his supporters, who branded him a pirate. A) Supporters, who,. B) No change. C) Supporters whom. D) Supporters who. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No change. 13. What is the purpose of using 'NO CHANGE' as an option in multiple-choice questions? A) 'NO CHANGE' allows students to recognize that the original wording is correct and does not need alteration. B) 'NO CHANGE' is used to confuse students and make the question harder. C) 'NO CHANGE' indicates that the question is poorly written and needs revision. D) 'NO CHANGE' serves as a placeholder for questions that have no correct answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 'NO CHANGE' allows students to recognize that the original wording is correct and does not need alteration. 14. Which answer choice reflects a more concise sentence? He was not able to attend the second session of the day. How can he get the information? A) Because he was not able to attend the second session of the day, he missed the information. How can he get the information?. B) He was not able to attend the session, he needs the information. How can he get it?. C) He was not able to attend the second session of the day; can he get the information?. D) NO CHANGE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was not able to attend the second session of the day; can he get the information?. 15. #53 Given that all the choices are true, which one most effectively leads the reader from the previous paragraph into this paragraph? A) NO CHANGE. B) Many artists who would later become well known attended the Studio School for art instruction in Santa Fe. C) Established by Dorothy Dunn, the Studio School was in operation for sixty years. D) Howe responded vehemently and publicly to the rejection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Howe responded vehemently and publicly to the rejection. 16. I could not answer your question earlier; I was busy and did not have enough time. A) Earlier, I was busy. B) NO CHANGE. C) Earlier:I was busy. D) Earlier I was busy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NO CHANGE. 17. What lies ahead? How will we handle these and other upcoming advances? Let us hope that science fiction writers are wrong, for all too often, characters in science fiction stories, like they're$^{10 }$forefather Victor Frankenstein, are unable to handle the responsibility of having so much power over nature. A) Their. B) There are. C) Whose. D) No Change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their. 18. The university registrar is responsible for scheduling office staff, coordinating the directory of classes and examinations, and assigning classroom facilities. A) NO CHANGE. B) For scheduling of office staff. C) For the scheduling office staff. D) For office-staff scheduling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 19. The conscious is the part of the mind of which we are aware; it is the tip of the iceberg that is visible above the water. The uncon-scious, on the other hand, $^{5}$ is all that is below the surface-the thoughts, feelings, and desires that we are not aware of but that nonetheless affect our behavior. A) No Change. B) Likewise. C) Unfortunately,. D) Thereby,. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No Change. 20. The monthly meeting went well:excepting for the time it was delayed 30 minutes due to the rain. A) Well except. B) Well. Except. C) Well, except. D) NO CHANGE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Well, except. 21. Our teacher asked Ava and Kami to read the problem. A) Us. B) We. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Us. 22. Someone left their notebook. A) Someone left his or her notebook. B) NO CHANGE. C) Someone left his notebook. D) Someone left her notebook. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone left his or her notebook. 23. Concentrated deep breathing during yoga helps you extend more fully into the poses, thereby gaining greater benefit from the stretch. And the steady$^{9 }$circulation of breath through your body both calms and energizes. A) No Change. B) Stretch. The steady. C) Stretch, the steady. D) Stretch, also the steady. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stretch. The steady. 24. ANSWER TO #35Look at the numbers in [ ] before the 35 in a box A) C. B) D. C) B. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) D. 25. Lead was a common ingredient in paint sold in the US for many decades. Later, it was discovered to be toxic and is no longer used. A) F. NO CHANGE. B) G. Now. C) H. After all. D) J. Besides. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F. NO CHANGE. 26. If the writer were to delete the preceding sentence, the essay would primarily lost ..... A) A detailed analysis of why the narrator had to plug the car engine into an electrical outlet. B) An indication of the narrator's response to the weather conditions in Fairbanks. C) Descriptive details that help set the scene of the narrator's meeting with Joan. D) Unnecessary details that repeat information given earlier in the paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Descriptive details that help set the scene of the narrator's meeting with Joan. 27. They except American Express cards. A) No change. B) Accept. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Accept. 28. A fulgurite is created in one explosive second by fusion and pressure as sand heated by a lightning blast melts, and becomes glass. A) NO CHANGE. B) Sand heated (by a lighting blast) melts. C) Sand, heated by a lighting blast melts,. D) Sand heated by a lightning blast melts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sand heated by a lightning blast melts. 29. The speaker at the horse-breeders' convention would have been better if she took the time to prepare for the subjects of interest to the audience. A) Had taken the time. B) Had took the time. C) NO CHANGE. D) Would have took the time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had taken the time. 30. While yoga tones and strengthens the body, it also tones and strengthens the mind. Many poses can be only held$^{8 }$if you are completely focused on the task, and full benefit of the poses comes only through proper breathing. A) Are only holding. B) Can only be held. C) Can be held only. D) No Change. 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