This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Act > Act English Practice – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Act English Practice Quiz 14 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This was the first important step toward the Cold War. Next came the date that will live in history:August 6, 1945. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on a civilian, not military, target, Hiroshima, Japan.$^{4}$ A) No Change. B) Hiroshima, Japan. C) Hiroshima, Japan-a civilian, not military, target. D) A civilian target. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hiroshima, Japan-a civilian, not military, target. 2. Until she wrote the first book of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling was an impoverished single mother; she subsequently became one of the wealthiest individuals in the United Kingdom. A) NO CHANGE. B) Instead. C) Always. D) By then. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 3. Select the sentence that correctly places the modifier to avoid ambiguity. A) She saw a kitten riding her bike on the way home. B) On the way home, she saw a kitten riding her bike. C) Riding her bike on the way home, she saw a kitten. D) She saw a kitten on the way home riding her bike. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Riding her bike on the way home, she saw a kitten. 4. Relatives which A) No change. B) Relatives that. C) Relatives, which. D) Relatives who. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Relatives who. 5. While crossword puzzles seem to be the game of choice, they need only sit in an airport or doctor's office in any city to see how Sudoku is slowly overtaking the popular word game. A) NO CHANGE. B) One needs. C) It needs. D) Which need. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One needs. 6. Before the storm started, the sky ..... dark. A) Turns. B) Turned. C) Has turned. D) Was turning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Turned. 7. On Thursday, we saw a car staring at the beach. A) NO CHANGE. B) On Thursday, we saw a beach staring at the car. C) On Thursday, we saw a car while staring at the beach. D) On Thursday, staring at the beach. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) On Thursday, we saw a car while staring at the beach. 8. If you are stuck on a question should you guess or skip it and come back? A) Guess, bcause you are being timed and you need to hurry. B) Skip, because it is a hard question so it might be worth more points, so you need to double check. C) Guess, because all the questions are worth the same amount of points so you should spend more time on the easy questions. D) Skip, because you are tired and dont want to think about the question anymore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Guess, because all the questions are worth the same amount of points so you should spend more time on the easy questions. 9. The principals of good sportsmanship demand that we cheer the achievements of both teams. A) NO CHANGE. B) Principals of best sportsmanship. C) Perceptions of good sportsmanship. D) Principles of good sportsmanship. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Principles of good sportsmanship. 10. What should you examine in each answer choice? A) The punctuation used. B) How it is phrased. C) How it differs from the others. D) The length of the answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How it differs from the others. 11. We couldn't visit you yesterday:I got super busy and then overslept. A) NO CHANGE. B) Yesterday, I got. C) Yesterday; I got. D) Yesterday. I got. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yesterday; I got. 12. The rare "triangular" snowflake, similarly, confounded scientists for years because it apparently defied the basic laws of chemistry. A) F. No change. B) G. for example,. C) H. additionally,. D) J. however,. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) J. however,. 13. When you are simply guessing in any test subject, which bubble should you fill in? A) None of them, leave it blank. B) Pick a different answer choice for each guess. C) It doesn't matter which answer choice you pick as long as you use the same one each time you're guessing. D) B and only B-no exceptions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It doesn't matter which answer choice you pick as long as you use the same one each time you're guessing. 14. Literary scholars of today have broadened their horizons, and are less likely to focus on style when they make claims about Milton. A) No change. B) They were. C) They are. D) He is. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are. 15. I have turned in the essay that I had spent several weeks working on. A) NO CHANGE. B) I have turned in the essay that I have spent several weeks working on. C) I had turned in the essay that I have spent several weeks working on. D) I turned in the essay that I will have spent several weeks working on. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I have turned in the essay that I have spent several weeks working on. 16. His photos of Memphis's Beale Street jazz and blues musicians includes the likes of B.B. King, Aretha Franklin, and Elvis Presley. A) NO CHANGE. B) Does include. C) Including. D) Include. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Include. 17. What is the time limit for the ACT English Test? A) 60 minutes. B) 45 minutes. C) 75 minutes. D) 30 minutes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 45 minutes. 18. For this reason, Sudoku should have been played using a pencil with a good eraser. A) NO CHANGE. B) Should be. C) Should being. D) Should of been. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Should be. 19. ANSWER TO #28 A) F. B) G. C) H. D) J. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) H. 20. An adults/adult's system of organization for a closet can vary wildly. A) Adults. B) Adult's. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adult's. 21. 66 A) F. B) G. C) H. D) J. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) H. 22. Evidence, and also A) NO CHANGE. B) Evidence, but also. C) Evidence and additionally. D) Evidence and. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evidence and. 23. Every pale tomato slice, wilted pickle, and brown lettuce leaf costs an extra 25 cents at Bernie's Burger Emporium. A) NO CHANGE. B) Cost. C) Costed. D) Had cost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 24. Every Halloween we look forward to handing out candy to trick-or-treaters. We usually get about twenty to thirty visitors, but I remember that for a year we only got a handful. A) F. NO CHANGE. B) G. year in and year out. C) H. yearly. D) J. one year. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) J. one year. 25. Haller took that to heart, and at the end of the day, he had became the first Ironman champion in history. A) NO CHANGE. B) Become. C) Became. D) Becamed. 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