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1. STANDARD: Use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar,

multiple-meaning, or ambiguous words.

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2. STANDARD: Use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar,
multiple-meaning, or ambiguous words.

3. Standard: Summarize the key details and events of a nonfictional text, in part or as a whole.

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4. STANDARD: Analyze, interpret, and evaluate how authors use techniques and elements of
nonfiction to effectively communicate an idea or concept.
What is the most likely reason Douglass begins his speech with a series of questions?

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5. Standard: Summarize the key details and events of a nonfictional text, in part or as a
whole.

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6. Standard: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety
of nonfiction: **the relationship between the theme and other components of a text **comparing
and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres **the reflection of traditional
and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres **the way in which a
work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period
Read this sentence from Anthony's speech.
And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings
of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by
this democratic-republican governmentthe ballot.

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7. STANDARD: Identify, analyze, and evaluate the structure and format of complex
informational texts.

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8. STANDARD: Use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar,
multiple-meaning, or ambiguous words.
Read these sentences from Douglass's speech.
Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already. Nobody
doubts it. The slave-holders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their
government. The manhood of the slave is conceded.

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9. Standard: Explain, interpret, describe, and/or analyze the authors defense of a claim to
make a point or construct an argument in nonfictional text.
In the last paragraph of her speech, how does Anthony defend her claim that women
should have the right to vote?

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10. STANDARD: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a
variety of fiction: Note: Character may also be called narrator or speaker. **the actions, motives,
dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships between characters within fictional text
**the relationship between characters and other components of a text **the development of
complex characters and their roles and functions within a text.

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11. STANDARD: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a
variety of fiction: Note: Character may also be called narrator or speaker. **the actions, motives,
dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships between characters within fictional text
**the relationship between characters and other components of a text **the development of
complex characters and their roles and functions within a text.

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12. STANDARD: Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting
details from a text. Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.

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13. STANDARD: Use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar,
multiple-meaning, or ambiguous words.
Read this sentence from the passage.
Theodoric had already noted with growing terror the recurring stacks of small, ugly dwellings
that heralded the journey's end.

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14. STANDARD: Explain, describe, and/or analyze examples of a text that support the authors
intended purpose.

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15. STANDARD: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a
variety of fiction: Note: Character may also be called narrator or speaker. **the actions, motives,
dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships between characters within fictional text
**the relationship between characters and other components of a text **the development of
complex characters and their roles and functions within a text.

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16. STANDARD: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a
variety of fiction: **the relationship between the theme and other components of a text
**comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres **the reflection of
traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres **the way
in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period.

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17. STANDARD: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate setting in a
variety of nonfiction: **the relationship between setting and other components of a text
(character, plot, and other key literary elements).

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18. STANDARD: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a
variety of fiction: Note: Character may also be called narrator or speaker. **the actions, motives,
dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships between characters within fictional text
**the relationship between characters and other components of a text **the development of
complex characters and their roles and functions within a text.

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19. STANDARD: Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting
details from a text. Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.

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20. STANDARD: Explain, describe, and/or analyze examples of a text that support the authors
intended purpose.

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21. STANDARD: Draw conclusions about connotations of words.
Read this sentence from the passage.
I overheard this and went on to announce during show-and-tell that my daddy worked
underground; on the back of my report card that year my teacher, who knew that my father was
not a miner, wrote, "I worry that sometimes Mark seems to be in his own little world."

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22. STANDARD: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a
variety of fiction: Note: Character may also be called narrator or speaker. **the actions, motives,
dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships between characters within fictional text
**the relationship between characters and other components of a text **the development of
complex characters and their roles and functions within a text.

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23. STANDARD: Identify and/or apply a synonym or antonym of a word used in a text.

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24. STANDARD: Draw conclusions about connotations of words.
Read this sentence from the passage.
The comet glowed so brightly in the cold night air that the cows standing near us looked like
ghostly worshipers, forming icons of the deity with their own breath.

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25. STANDARD: Use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar,
multiple-meaning, or ambiguous words.

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Item number: 6

Your answer: C

Correct answer: D

Standard (briefly): Analyze authors use of elements of nonfiction

Why did you select this answer, and why was it incorrect? I picked C because I didnt quite
understand the question but slavery and womens rights had something in common. It
was wrong because it does not contain the element of hypocrisy that the correct
answer has in common with the first sentence.
Explain what the correct answer is and why: T
he correct answer compares the ideals
celebrated by July 4th with the oppression of slavery, which has a similar theme to the
first sentence and the contradiction between liberty and lack of womens suffrage.

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