This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Act > Act English – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Act English Quiz 8 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Do you need to know anything about science to do well on the science section? A) YES! Of course you nee to know physics an chemistry. B) NO! It's really just a reading test, 99.9% of the info is there for you. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NO! It's really just a reading test, 99.9% of the info is there for you. 2. Phrase or clause?Go to the store and get some milk A) Phrase. B) Clause. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clause. 3. An American-made, plutonium bomb was detonated in the desert of New Mexico, and created a force that was large enough to level a small city. A) NO CHANGE. B) An American-made plutonium bomb. C) An American-made plutonium bomb,. D) An American made plutonium bomb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An American-made plutonium bomb. 4. As a profession, teachers had to show that they were just as intelligent and capable as practitioners in more respected and better paid career fields if they ever wanted things to change. A) As intelligent and capable unlike practitioners. B) As intelligent and capable than practitioners. C) As intelligent and capable like practitioners. D) NO CHANGE. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NO CHANGE. 5. Which of the following would be MOST appropriate to say when you notice the most beautiful dress you have ever seen in your life? A) That dress is gorgeous!. B) That dress is affluent!. C) That dress is adorable!. D) That dress is delectable!. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That dress is gorgeous!. 6. Choose the most appropriate word to complete the sentence:The committee was pleased with the ..... of the new policy, as it led to increased productivity. A) Affect. B) Effect. C) Affection. D) Affective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Effect. 7. Choose the sentence that maintains consistent subject-verb agreement. A) The team of players are winning the match. B) The team of players is winning the match. C) The team of players were winning the match. D) The team of players be winning the match. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The team of players is winning the match. 8. You don't even need to have a formal lesson to pick up an instrument and join in the fun.WHICH OF THE CHOICES HELPS THE WRITER STRESS THAT PLAYING MUSIC IS AN ACTIVITY IN WHICH ALL CAN PARTICIPATE RATHER THAN JUST AN ELITIST ART FORM? A) NO CHANGE. B) Understand the theory. C) Go to a conservatory. D) Know how to create sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 9. NO CHANGE or revise? This decision was easy for me, I was not going to pass up the opportunity to see Switzerland! A) NO CHANGE. B) Revise:me; I. C) Revise:me, being that I. D) Revise:I. I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Revise:me; I. 10. Phrase or clause?A flock of birds A) Phrase. B) Clause. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phrase. 11. Identify the sentence with a parallel structure: A) She likes reading, to swim, and jogging. B) She likes reading, swimming, and jogging. C) She likes to read, swimming, and to jog. D) She likes reading, swimming, and to jog. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She likes reading, swimming, and jogging. 12. True or False. The writing section is required. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 13. Choose the sentence that uses the correct preposition. A) She is good in math. B) She is good at math. C) She is good on math. D) She is good with math. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She is good at math. 14. The interior decorator had her plate full for the week. Organizing the schedules, renovations, and custom orders. A) Organizes. B) Organization. C) NO CHANGE. D) She organized. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She organized. 15. Which of the following is the most concise term for "residence" ? A) Lodging. B) Accommodation. C) Home. D) Quarter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Home. 16. The birds flew? when I opened the cage. A) Up. B) Past. C) Through. D) Off. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Off. 17. Question 30 A) F. B) G. C) H. D) J. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F. 18. 69 The writer is considering revising the preceding sentence to read as follows:If necessary, a number of six or eight feather can be cut to the shape of a number seven feather. If the writer did this, the sentence would primarily lose a sense of how: A) Limited rehabilitators' feather collections are. B) Delicate the work being described is. C) Different each of a bird's flight feathers is. D) Easy it is to replace a number seven feather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Delicate the work being described is. 19. What do independent clauses do? A) Express complete thoughts and can stand as sentences by themselves. B) Express incomplete thoughts and are, therefore, sentence fragments. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Express complete thoughts and can stand as sentences by themselves. 20. His comments about the religious text were considered ..... and deeply offensive. A) Blasphemous. B) Reverent. C) Pious. D) Laudatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blasphemous. 21. What do dependent clauses do? A) Express incomplete thoughts and are, therefore, sentence fragments. B) Express compelete thoughts and can stand by themselves. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Express incomplete thoughts and are, therefore, sentence fragments. 22. Choose the correct form of the verb:'Neither the teacher nor the students ..... ready for the exam.' A) Is. B) Are. C) Was. D) Were. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are. 23. Their interiors, though, are smooth, clear glass stained with tiny bubbles formed by air and moisture trapped during the rapid cooling of the melted sand after the lightning strike.Which choice makes clearest the light, sporadic arrangement of the bubbles in the glass? A) NO CHANGE. B) Pointed. C) Speckled. D) Covered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speckled. 24. The plutonium bomb, however, had a more complex mechanism. A) NO CHANGE. B) The plutonium bomb had, nonetheless, a more complex mechanism. C) Thus, the plutonium bomb had a more complex mechanism. D) The plutonium bomb had a more, however, complex mechanism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 25. Choose the sentence that maintains pronoun consistency. A) Everyone should do their best if he wants to succeed. B) If a person wants to succeed, they should do their best. C) If someone wants to succeed, he should do their best. D) Everyone should do their best if they want to succeed. 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