This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Act > Act English – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Act English Quiz 26 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The iPhone 6 is ..... now that the iPhone 7 has been released. A) Obsolete. B) Justified. C) Redundant. D) Trivial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Obsolete. 2. Maria was late in arriving to the meeting. A) Maria was late in arriving to the meeting. B) Maria was late for the meeting. C) Maria arrived late at the meeting. D) Maria, she was late to the meeting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maria was late for the meeting. 3. 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) NO CHANGE. B) This makes me so happy!. C) Yeah, you could say I'm a little annoyed!. D) I've never been angrier in my life!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yeah, you could say I'm a little annoyed!. 4. 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. D) She has a part-time-job.TagsDOK Level 2:Skill/Concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She has a part-time job. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. Condescending A) Cause a severe loss. B) Having or showing a feeling of superiority. C) Large or heavy. D) Leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having or showing a feeling of superiority. 10. 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. 11. ..... 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. 12. 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. 13. My dog, who/whom has lots of toys, plays every day. A) Who. B) Whom. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Who. 14. What score do you need to say you "passed" any section of the ACT? A) 17. B) 24. C) 36. D) 42. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 17. 15. NO CHANGE or revise? She liked the finer things in life she always had to have nice clothes and fine food. A) NO CHANGE. B) Revise:She liked the finer things in life, she always had to have nice clothes and fine food. C) Revise:She liked the finer things in life and she always had to have nice clothes and fine food. D) Revise:She liked the finer things in life, and she always had to have nice clothes and fine food. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Revise:She liked the finer things in life, and she always had to have nice clothes and fine food. 16. Bears do not usually interact with humans, but many have discovered that food left around a campsite is easy dinner. A) F. NO CHANGE. B) G. is easy to. C) H. are easy. D) J. are easily. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F. NO CHANGE. 17. Imagining all these people, it is that I know that they remain even after I have left. A) NO CHANGE. B) It being that I imagined all these people, they. C) Imagining all these people, they. D) I imagine all these people. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I imagine all these people. 18. Faulty ..... occurs when items/verbs are mismatched. A) Redundancy. B) Technicality. C) Comparison. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 19. The architecture of the ..... South reflected the prosperity of pre-Civil War society. A) Cosmopolitan. B) Antebellum. C) Contemporary. D) Anachronistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antebellum. 20. Geologic processes are slow, while research must include the study of ancient human accounts of eruptions and layers of rock millions of years old. A) NO CHANGE. B) Slow, but. C) Slow, so. D) Slow, although. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slow, so. 21. Choose the most appropriate word to complete the sentence:The author's use of vivid imagery in the poem helps to ..... the reader's emotions. A) Evoke. B) Provoke. C) Revoke. D) Invoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Evoke. 22. My grandmother's hand-made scarves came in handy in the winter when it would snow owing to the fact that they were warm. A) NO CHANGE. B) And. C) For the reason that. D) Because. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because. 23. Playing in the park, the story weather ruined the childrens' game of dodge ball. A) The stormy weather ruined the childrens' game of dodge ball playing in the park. B) Playing in the park, the stormy weather ruined the children's game of dodge ball. C) The stormy weather ruined the childrens' game of dodge ball who were playing in the park. D) The stormy weather ruined the children's dodge ball game in the park. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The stormy weather ruined the children's dodge ball game in the park. 24. Each pipe is individually rolled to create theproper pitch before BEING BOUND to the other pipes. A) NO CHANGE. B) Being binded. C) Being bounded. D) Been bound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 25. What are the three reasons for writing? A) Persuade, Inform, Entertain. B) Personal, Interview, Entertain. C) Persuade, Irony, Entertain. D) Personal, Inform, Evolve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persuade, Inform, Entertain. ← 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