This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Act > Act Reading – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Act Reading Quiz 27 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Thankfully the disease has gone into ..... ; it may not recur for many years. A) Treatment. B) Sequestration. C) Quarantine. D) Remission. E) Oblivion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Remission. 2. Everyone should read each question WITHOUT looking at the answer choices and THEN REFER to the reading passage to find the answer. LASTLY, match your answer with the correct answer choice. You should do this as the ACT likes to put distracting or tricky answer choices. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Which word best completes the sentence? 'The ACT reading section is designed to ..... a student's comprehension skills.' A) Test. B) Ignore. C) Confuse. D) Distract. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Test. 4. What type of question requires you to say a lot of information in a shorter way? A) Detail. B) Vocabulary. C) Main idea. D) Generalization. E) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Generalization. 5. Which type of passage on the ACT Reading test is most likely to include charts, tables, or graphs? A) Literary Narrative. B) Social Science. C) Humanities. D) Natural Science. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Natural Science. 6. The author indicates that for the sake of an unbiasedinterpretation, compared to reading written documentswith care, reading photographs with care is: A) Significantly more important. B) Slightly more important. C) Just as important. D) Slightly less important. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Just as important. 7. It can be reasonably inferred from the conversationswith Jake, that Katherine: A) Is a stay-at-home-mother. B) Does not care about her son. C) Works two jobs to make ends meet. D) Believes that junk food is healthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Works two jobs to make ends meet. 8. After ordering your passages, you should then entirely read and answer all questions from the first ..... passages. A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 9. The author uses lines 37-40 to: A) Develop context for the rest of the paragraph. B) Establish credibility and reliability in his passage. C) Boast about all the places he has traveled to. D) Encourage the reader to see places all over the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Establish credibility and reliability in his passage. 10. The main purpose of the passage is to: A) Discuss the panda exhibit at the National Zoo, and Wang's role in helping to design it. B) Explain the job of a conservation biologist through the example of Wang. C) Describe Wang's work and his position on the role of zoos in conservation efforts. D) Give an overview of the history of panda conservation, with emphasis on the importance of Wang's research. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Describe Wang's work and his position on the role of zoos in conservation efforts. 11. When comparing and contrasting information, it is important to: A) Focus only on the information that supports the reader's viewpoint. B) Consider both the similarities and differences to fully understand the relationship between the texts. C) Ignore differences that do not seem important. D) Only compare facts, not opinions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consider both the similarities and differences to fully understand the relationship between the texts. 12. What literary device is this: "The world had been sad since Tuesday" (1 A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings)? A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 13. How many kinds of questions can be found in the ACT Reading Section? A) 3. B) 4. C) 5. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5. 14. If you scored a 19 or 20 on the Reading Section last year, you should blindly guess on ONE reading passage, either passage #2 or #3. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. According to the passage, all of the following are true regarding the animalsthat reached the Emperor's Palace EXCEPT: A) The rabbit was very nimble in crossing the river and made it across quiteeasily. B) The tiger's vigor allowed him to swim across the river effortlessly. C) The snake wound himself around the dragon's leg to reach the end of therace. D) The pig narrowly reached the end of the race to the Emperor's Palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The snake wound himself around the dragon's leg to reach the end of therace. 16. The main purpose of the final paragraph (lines 82-97) is to: A) F. represent the viewpoint that any life on Europa is impossible. B) G. explain the process by which microbes evolve into larger life forms. C) H. explore the possibility that evolution on Europa works differently from how it does on Earth. D) J. suggest that advanced life on Europa may be unlikely. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) J. suggest that advanced life on Europa may be unlikely. 17. Who does the author blame most for the destruction of wildlife? A) People around the world. B) Americans. C) Southerners. D) The reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Americans. 18. On the Prose Fiction passage, you should be spending the majority of your time reading and annotating. How many minutes (roughly) should you be spending doing this? A) 3. B) 4. C) 5. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5. 19. Lines 71-77 primarily serve to illustrate the point that, to have resulted in advanced life, oxygen levels in Europa's ocean would need to: A) F. exceed levels in Earth's oceans. B) G. have slowed in the last 50 million years. C) H. have risen gradually. D) J. have been consistently high all along. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) H. have risen gradually. 20. If passage 1 or 4 is a paired passage you should: A) Do it first. B) Do it second. C) Do it third. D) Do it last. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Do it second. 21. It can most reasonably be inferred that the passage's author believes that, in a historical biography, the regular appearance of "open speculation" or reference to "the author's theories" (lines 50-54) is: A) Uplifting. B) Unfortunate. C) Intelligent. D) Inevitable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unfortunate. 22. According to the passage, literary lovers' triangles have included all of the following EXCEPT: A) Queen Medb, King Aillil, and Fergus. B) Queen Isolde, King Mark, and Sir Tristram. C) Queen Guinevere, King Arthur, and Sir Lancelot. D) Queen Medb, King Mark, and King Arthur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Queen Medb, King Mark, and King Arthur. 23. It is most reasonable to infer from the passage that the creeks near the lodge are pristine because: A) They teem with fish. B) The lodge only draws water from one of them. C) Civilization is not present to alter or pollute them. D) Many specialty fishes can be readily caught in their waters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Civilization is not present to alter or pollute them. 24. What is the key to answering every ACT Reading question correctly? A) Using personal interpretation. B) Directly supported by the text. C) Guessing based on context. D) Relying on memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Directly supported by the text. 25. Based on the passage, the "end" the narrator mentions in line 80 most likely refers to his: A) Final pursuit of fitness. B) Last chance to qualify for Junior Nationals. C) Memory of his final Friday night practice. D) Ultimate realization that he had defeated the other competitors in the race. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Last chance to qualify for Junior Nationals. 26. According to the passage, "primordial" describes planets that: A) F. are oxygen-poor due to a lack of activity by living things. B) G. are not hospitable to humans because they have thick atmospheres and high surface temperatures. C) H. have preserved many of the characteristics present when the planets were formed. D) H. have preserved many of the characteristics present when the planets were formed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) H. have preserved many of the characteristics present when the planets were formed. 27. What is the purpose of the ACT reading section? A) To test mathematical skills. B) To evaluate reading comprehension. C) To assess scientific knowledge. D) To measure writing ability. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To evaluate reading comprehension. 28. No one meteorological model is fully being able to account for the sweltering summers that have brought nearly fifty consecutive days of triple-digit highs to some parts of the country. A) NO CHANGE. B) Is able to be accountable to. C) Can fully account for. D) Has been able to account fully for. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Can fully account for. 29. There are ..... passages of approximately ..... words each. A) 4; 900. B) 9; 400. C) 4; 9000. D) Infinite; finite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4; 900. 30. Which of the following skills is testing on the ACT reading test? A) Memorizing formal rules of logic in English. B) Identifying Sentence Redundancy. C) Drawing logical conclusions. D) Correcting common usage errors. 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