Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Critical Reading
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What
is the author’s main reason for visiting entomologist Louis Sorkin? a. | She is
interested in studying the habits of insects with an expert. | b. | She wants Sorkin
to identify the insects in her home and explain how she might get rid of them
naturally. | c. | She is collecting insects for a
project. | d. | She wants Sorkin to suggest strong pesticides that will not be
toxic to her. | | |
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2.
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What
is the author’s attitude toward insects when she first visits Sorkin? a. | She despises all
insects and always has. | b. | She is terrified of insects. | c. | She is both
fascinated and repulsed by insects. | d. | She thinks of insects as her friends and wants them to
thrive. | | |
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When
the author says “Bugs are microcosms and microcosms are metaphors,” she means
that a. | bugs are small
versions of the world. | c. | there are too
many bugs in the world. | b. | bugs are annoying. | d. | bugs are poetic. | | | | |
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If
your purpose for reading “An Entomological Study of Apartment 4A” is to gather scientific
facts about insects, which of the following lines would stand out to you? a. | A black crawly
thing with more legs than the Rockettes had staked out the north bedroom
wall. | b. | Sorkin’s desk is littered with dental tools, mail, baby
food jars and mugs with spoons—roach heaven. | c. | Sorkin explains
that roaches have a three-stage metamorphosis, going from egg to wingless nymph to
adult. | d. | The next morning, while I’m getting coffee, a juvenile
roach heads for the food processor. | | |
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5.
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Instead of learning how to start “biological warfare” against insects in her
apartment, what does the author seem to learn during her first visit to Sorkin’s
office? a. | She learns that
she must move from her apartment. | b. | She learns that Sorkin does not know as much about insects as
she thought he would. | c. | She learns how to find more cockroaches and houseflies in her
home. | d. | She learns to view insects as complicated and interesting
beings. | | |
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What
is significant about the fact that the author finds poignancy in a dead cockroach carrying an egg
case ? a. | She is beginning
to identify and sympathize with the insects in her apartment. | b. | She is obviously
repulsed by the sight of dead cockroaches. | c. | She does not understand why Sorkin was unable to solve her
problem immediately. | d. | She is no longer able to tolerate the insects in her
apartment. | | |
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“An Entomological Study of Insects” is a typical feature article because
it a. | describes the
habits of insects. | b. | reveals the thoughts and feelings of the
author. | c. | entertains readers and provides information about an
interesting subject. | d. | describes a problem using humor. | | |
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8.
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The
author is most impressed with Sorkin’s a. | office. | c. | willingness to help. | b. | friendliness. | d. | knowledge of
insects. | | | | |
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Which
of the following passages adds human interest to the article? a. | Chilopoda have
their front legs modified to inject venom. | b. | There are two species of certain follicle mites around the nose
and forehead. | c. | Normally I admire bugs. . . . As a child, I
collected them in glass cigar tubes my father brought home from his
restaurant. | d. | A strawberry root weevil. It’s an outdoor weevil that
sometimes comes into homes as it migrates. | | |
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10.
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What
does the author mean by the following comment?
That’s when it hits me: I’ve neglected my prime bug
habitat.
a. | She needs to go
back to the museum immediately. | b. | She realizes that there are more insects than ever before in
her apartment. | c. | She realizes that she must destroy the insect world in her
apartment. | d. | She realizes that she has not fully explored the insect world
in her apartment. | | |
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If
your purpose for reading “An Entomological Study of Apartment 4A” is to get an ordinary
person’s perspective on living with insects, which of the following lines would interest you
most? a. | This is a
belostomadid, or true water bug, from Thailand. | b. | Centipedes
don’t have a hundred legs. | c. | Living close to nature, even on a tiny scale, is a privilege in
a city. | d. | Sorkin is encyclopedic. | | |
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Which
of the following lines best shows that “An Entomological Study of Apartment 4A” is an
informative feature article? a. | It would not destroy the balance of nature if all pest species
were eliminated from apartments, since that’s not their natural habitat
anyway. | b. | Sorkin shows me a jar of preserved insects saved at the 100th
anniversary dinner of the New York Entomological society. | c. | The phone rings.
It rings all day. Louis Sorkin is the 911 of insect emergencies. | d. | I head home
wondering about the strawberry root weevil. | | |
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Which
of the following passages demonstrates most the author’s use of humor in her
article? a. | “So, if I
introduce more Chilopods, they’ll get rid of the roaches?” | b. | Sorkin checks
sweepings from the back-room closet shower. | c. | Sorkin’s
personal favorite is grubs over easy. “Tastes like bacon,” he
says. | d. | Even though we find them that way, insects don’t always
die on their backs. | | |
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How
does the author feel after her last meeting with Sorkin? a. | Satisfied with
the interesting information she received | b. | Angry that Sorkin did not solve her
problem | c. | Hopeless | d. | Eager to spray
pesticides again | | |
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According to the author, what is significant about the insect ritual of tapping each
other with antennae “to check out who they’re dealing with”? a. | It shows that
insects are dangerous. | b. | It is similar to some human rituals such as shaking
hands. | c. | It shows that insects live together
peacefully. | d. | It shows that insects are intelligent | | |
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Which
of the following statements summarizes the main point of the article? a. | Entomology is a
complicated and difficult field of study. | b. | Insects need to be eliminated from the
world. | c. | Insects breed in filthy environments. | d. | The insect world
is interesting and quirky, not unlike the world of humans. | | |
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Vocabulary and Grammar
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Which
of the following sentences contains a participial phrase? a. | The narrator
visits the American Museum of Natural History. | b. | Scratching his
arm, Sorkin tells the narrator that German cockroaches are called Belgian cockroaches in
Germany. | c. | Together they study immature German
cockroaches. | d. | He carefully studies a bug in a colander, under some
grapes. | | |
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Sorkin’s tarantula seems ready to pounce like “a furry ball of
____.” a. | microcosm | c. | metaphors | b. | malevolence | d. | tranquillity | | | | |
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Which
of the following sentences contains a participial phrase? a. | The narrator
shows Sorkin a bug suspended in liquid. | b. | Sorkin helps the narrator load containers back into the
shopping bag. | c. | She retrieves hundreds of insects from a glass ceiling
fixture. | d. | Sorkin shows the narrator a furry
tarantula. | | |
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Sorkin was ____ as an entomologist after his discovery of a previously unknown
parasitic moth mite. a. | imagined | c. | bored | b. | immortalized | d. | malevolent | | | | |
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