Act Reading Quiz 24 (60 MCQs)

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1. ..... means to exercise your judgement about what you are reading, that is, not taking anything you read at face value.
2. Imagine you're a detective like Hannah, tasked with uncovering the purpose behind a mysterious sentence, paragraph, or phrase. What type of question are you solving?
3. . The passage is best described as being told from the point of view of a philosopher who is:
4. The only information the passage provides about Justin's school is that:
5. After the directions, what is the first thing you read on each reading passage?
6. Which trap involves selecting a statement from the passage that is factually correct but doesn't address the question?
7. The author states that superstores will recover their initial building costs:
8. When the author states a songwriter must aspire to "this private release" (line 70), he is most directly referring to the idea that a songwriter must:
9. Prose Fiction and Humanities passages contain more:
10. Evelyn's small business started to burgeon (verb) after she implemented a new marketing strategy. What does burgeon mean in this context?
11. Typically, distractors use the ..... from the passage.
12. How should you vary your reading pace?
13. What should you focus on while reading?
14. Inference questions usually require you to:
15. What was the United States Constitution created through?
16. How can setting influence a story?
17. About how many questions out of 40 do you need to get correct to hit the ACT Benchmark of 20?
18. Imagine you're a detective like Emma or Henry, tasked with uncovering the author's secret tone, mood, or attitude towards the subject. Which of the following clues will lead you to the right answer?
19. How much time should you spend reading a passage?
20. This occurs when one event is said to cause another event because the two events happened in sequence.
21. What is the composite or overall ACT score based on?
22. The passage indicates that during the narrator's swim at the time trials, he understood for the first time that:
23. The purpose of analyzing the structure of a text is to:
24. Which action do the narrators of both passages closely connect with their mothers?
25. In the passage, who most directly expresses the idea that fans will respond to criticisms of reggaeton by embracing the music even more?
26. The purpose of MOST argumentative writing is to .....
27. Consider the following question:Based on the passage, compared to the narrator of Passage B, the narrator of Passage A felt more:This question most likely falls under which category?
28. In describing the Latino youth who listen to and relate to reggaeton, the author characterizes their parents' musical tastes as being:
29. EVERYONE should complete the reading passages in the same order, from easiest to hardest, which is:4. Natural Science (Space/Animals) 1. Prose/Literary Narrative 2. Social Science (Historical) OR 3. Humanities (the Arts)
30. What does it mean to infer in reading comprehension?
31. The author refers to the swirling pattern of a hurricane primarily in order to:
32. It can be inferred from the passage that Jake is:
33. A critical reader analyzes and evaluates the preciseness of the reasoning that supports a certain thesis statement of a text.
34. How many acres of surveyed government land could be claimed under the Homestead Act?
35. On the ACT the reading test has how many passages?
36. According to the passage, the central bulge of the Milky Way is comprised of:
37. Save the paired passage for last.
38. How does the lodge generate electricity?
39. According to the passage, new technologies and decreasing costs of electronics will lead directly to an increase in all of the following EXCEPT:
40. Have a mutual relationship or connection
41. There were evidences of "improvement" ..... a few acres of ground immediately about the house had once been cleared of its trees, the decayed stumps of which were half concealed by the new growth that had been suffered to repair the ravage wrought by the ax. As used in this paragraph, the word suffered most nearly means .....
42. What does the word 'accord' most nearly mean?
43. Which of the following provides the best paraphrase oflines 7-11?
44. You must read every word
45. Which of the following types of ACT Reading passages usually consists of excerpts from fiction or literary memoirs?
46. What lesson do Pelayo and Elisenda learn by the end of the story?
47. Besides plot shifts (like 'Suddenly ..... '), what is a critical 'E' (Event) to mark?
48. What does the speaker suggest doing with broad passage questions?
49. The author implies that she had to "sensitize editors" (line 48) because those editors:
50. The idea that Jake's mother is trying her best to take careof her son is least supported by which of the followingquotations from the passage?
51. Which one the following word is the signal word of effect?
52. In lines 57-58 the statement "The voice of the cello doesn't lie" mostly means:
53. Eminent (adjective)
54. What type of questions require you to draw conclusions based on the information provided?
55. When the author says that "austere blues and greens of the film's cinematography blend with Nyman's round melodies" (lines 59-61), he most likely means that the film:
56. The main purpose of ..... is getting to know the internal world of the character and what her character is like in the literary narrative passage
57. What unique strategy does the speaker claim to have created for the ACT reading test?
58. What type of question asks you to figure out the meaning if a word by the way it is used in a text?
59. What is the difference between fact and opinion in reading comprehension?
60. What is a key sign of a 'Now' question?