This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Act > Act English – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Act English Quiz 20 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is concise? A) Current condition. B) Free gifts. C) Dropped down. D) Future plans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Current condition. 2. Which one do you not use commas in? A) Put a comma before a coordinating conjunction that joins two independent clauses. B) Use a comma to set apart a beginning dependent clause from the rest of a sentence . C) Use a comma to set apart two independent clauses. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use a comma to set apart two independent clauses. 3. Choose the correct word to complete the sentence:The committee was pleased with the results of the survey, but they were concerned about the low response ..... A) Ratio. B) Percentage. C) Proportion. D) Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rate. 4. On recent ACT's, the shortest answer is correct and absolutely right, for about half of all English questions. A) NO CHANGE. B) Correct. C) Right, that is, correct. D) Correct, absolutely, and. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Correct. 5. Which types of passages will be on the reading ACT? A) Prose Fiction, social science, comic book, natural science. B) Social science, research, humanities, prose fiction. C) Prose fiction, Social Science, natural science, research. D) Prose fiction, social science, natural science, humanities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prose fiction, social science, natural science, humanities. 6. I remembered hunting for Easter eggs in my grandparents lawn when I was eleven. Grandma and Papa watched me from the patio as they sipped lemonade. A) NO CHANGE. B) Grandparents'. C) Grandparent's. D) Grandparents's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grandparents'. 7. What is the percent chance you will get a question correct if you leave it blank? A) 50. B) 25. C) 100. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 0. 8. Which change should be applied to the following sentence:She is a well qualified person. A) She is a well qualified person. B) She is a wellqualified person. C) She is a qualified person. D) She is a well-qualified person. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She is a well-qualified person. 9. Doctors hope that the spread of the virus will slow down ..... summer. A) On. B) In. C) By. D) Over. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In. 10. What is the difference between 'I' and 'me'? A) Use 'I' as the object of a sentence and 'me' as the subject. B) Use 'I' as the subject of a sentence and 'me' as the object. C) Both 'I' and 'me' can be used interchangeably in any sentence. D) 'I' is used only in questions, while 'me' is used in statements. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Use 'I' as the subject of a sentence and 'me' as the object. 11. She pick the flowers? the garden A) Over. B) From. C) Along. D) Through. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From. 12. You don't need expensive games and videos to entertain yourself.Which word provides the most specific information about games and videos?(TOD-Topic Development in terms of Purpose and Focus) A) Expensive. B) Need. C) Yourself. D) Entertain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expensive. 13. More creations appeared at several libraries and museums devoted to books and writing. Therefore, a total of ten sculptures were bestowed on special institutions, whose staff are thrilled by their luck. A) NO CHANGE. B) Eventually,. C) Of course,. D) However,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eventually,. 14. I was worried because my nephew, Ben, and his co-author had been revising it for only a week. A) G. their book. B) H. on that. C) J. it seriously. D) F. NO CHANGE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) G. their book. 15. Which word or phrase should be deleted? Mom has to descend down the basement stairs to do the family laundry. A) Down. B) To do. C) Has too. D) Descend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Down. 16. Galvanizing protects steel by coating with A) Zinc. B) Nickel. C) Copper. D) Aluminium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zinc. 17. Then, there were skeptics-lead scientist, Robert Oppenheimer placed a bet against George Kistiakowky that the bomb would not work. A) Skeptics lead scientist. B) NO CHANGE. C) Skeptics-lead scientist. D) Skeptics, lead scientist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeptics-lead scientist. 18. Mike agrees with the politician because he and his classmates have been studying that all semester long. A) Up on that. B) It hard. C) Civics. D) NO CHANGE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Civics. 19. The parents made sure that their bags included several of the babies colorful toys to amuse them during the car trip A) NO CHANGE. B) Babies fully colored toys. C) Babies' colorful toys. D) Baby's colorful toys. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Babies' colorful toys. 20. The iPhone 6 is ..... now that the iPhone 7 has been released. A) Justified. B) Trivial. C) Redundant. D) Obsolete. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Obsolete. 21. Maria was late in arriving to the meeting. A) Maria, she was late to the meeting. B) Maria was late in arriving to the meeting. C) Maria arrived late at the meeting. D) Maria was late for the meeting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maria was late for the meeting. 22. The author wants to use understatement as a rhetorical style. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?You took my brand-new car without asking, drove it 800 miles, and scraped the entire front bumper? Yeah, you could say I'm extremely upset! A) I've never been angrier in my life!. B) This makes me so happy!. C) Yeah, you could say I'm a little annoyed!. D) NO CHANGE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yeah, you could say I'm a little annoyed!. 23. Select the sentence that correctly uses a hyphen. A) She has a part time-job. B) She has a part time job. C) She has a part-time-job.TagsDOK Level 2:Skill/Concept. D) She has a part-time job. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She has a part-time job. 24. When is repetition useful? A) Never. B) When it contributes to emphasis or coherence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When it contributes to emphasis or coherence. 25. What is the "tone" of a story? A) The feeling the passage evokes from the reader. B) The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject. C) The time and place of the story. D) The summary of events in the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject. 26. Good or Bad Tip:If you are running out of time, you should guess on the rest of the ACT section to finish it. A) Good Tip. B) Bad Tip. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Good Tip. 27. You use a colon in all of the following except. A) To replace an omitted and. B) Use them to relate the introductory clause in a sentence to a relevant list of specifics, a long appositive or explanation. C) Use them to separate two independent clauses. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To replace an omitted and. 28. Which choice best concludes the essay by reiterating its main idea? A) NO CHANGE. B) So, not surprisingly, in 2001 McCoy was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, located in Alexandria, Virginia. C) Even having applications in the booming aluminum manufacturing industry of the 1940s. D) Making this story, for so many reasons, "the genuine article.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 29. ..... fencing, Teddy had many other skills as well, like computer programming. A) First. B) Of course. C) Beyond. D) Finally. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beyond. 30. I would show off the lanterns my mother made, eat mooncake, and drink tea with my friends. A) NO CHANGE. B) Eaten mooncake, and drank. C) Eaten mooncake, and drunk. D) Eat mooncake, and drank. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesAct English Quiz 1Act English Quiz 2Act English Quiz 3Act English Quiz 4Act English Quiz 5Act English Quiz 6Act English Quiz 7Act English Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books