Anthem Chicago The Jungle
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Ayn Rand emigrated to
America from this country.

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This is the name of Ayn Rand’s personal philosophy.

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Unlike Upton
Sinclair, Ayn Rand liked this type of economic system.

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What is capitalism?

The protagonist of the novel gets this name, an allusion to a mythical bringer of light.

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The Latin term for one of the protagonist’s names; it is also the name of a famous poem.

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Given his use of colloquial language,
Sandburg’s primary audience is probably this.

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What is the common man?

Sandburg’s poem
“Fish Crier” is similar in theme to this series of poems by Blake.

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What are
Songs of
Innocence?

Sandburg’s poem
“Happiness” is similar in theme to this poem by Walt
Whitman.

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This word could be used to describe the mood of the fish crier.

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What is excited?

When Sandburg says
Chicago “laughs as a boxer laughs,” he is employing these two literary devices.

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What are personification and simile?

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This was Upton
Sinclair’s primary goal in writing The
Jungle .

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Upton Sinclair was a part of this journalistic movement, along with Tarbell and
Steffans.

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Sinclair disdained
Capitalism, and instead preferred this economic system.

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Jurgis and his family emigrate from this country.

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What is
Lithuania?

Jurgis’s family gets very sick – and he gets injured – during this season.

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Let’s hope there aren’t any vermin in your meat from
Jurgis’s meat factory.

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Jurgis was obstinate about his belief that he could still achieve the American Dream.

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George and Lenny are two famous transient workers.

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What is migrant or moving?

I hope this accursed test isn’t too hard tomorrow!

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The prestidigitator demonstrated his extraordinary mastery of sleight of hand.

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the director was extremely
_____________: she and the other cast members could never anticipate how he would respond.
• A. Negative
• B. Boring
• C. Unpredictable
• D. Humorous
• E. Courageous

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C. unpredictable

The bee hummingbird has an average length of only two inches, making it the most ___________ of all hummingbird species.
A. voracious
B. diminutive
C. capricious
D. superfluous
E. prodigal

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Naturally, ____________ facilitates friendships: the people we live near or interact with frequently are more likely to become our friends.
• A. enmity
• B. proximity
• C. beneficence
• D. partisanship
• E. magnanimity

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Able to survive subzero temperatures, long periods of darkness, and days without food, the Arctic wolf is clearly a very ____________ animal.
• A. greedy
• B. social
• C. cunning
• D. hardy
• E. aggressive

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D. hardy

The paucity of autobiographical documents left by the royal attendants has compelled historian Raul Salazar to
_____________ the motives of these courtiers from their ____________ rather than from any diaries or correspondence.
• A. stipulate…accomplishments
• B. contemplate…journals
• C. surmise…deeds
• D. allege…assertions
• E. elicit…missives

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C. surmise…deeds

several times was the poem beginning to make sense to me.
• A. was the poem beginning to make sense to me
• B. was when I began to make sense of the poem
• C. I began making sense of the poem
• D. did the poem begin making sense to me
• E. did I begin to make sense of the poem

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E. did I begin to make sense of the poem

They had never before been in a museum with such an extensive collection, they had a difficult time deciding how to make the most of the limited time they could spend there.
• A. They had never before been
• B. They never before were
• C. Never before had they been
• D. Never before having been
• E. Because of never before being

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D. never before having been

The European magpie, a bird well known (A) for
(B) their tendency to steal shiny objects, is (C) common in European folklore, (D) with many superstitions surrounding it. (E) No error.

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The aquatic weed called
“giant salvinia,” which grows far (A) more rapidly than do (B) plants native to the lakes it (C) infests, (D) threaten many freshwater ecosystems.
(E) No error.

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The accelerating pace of both science and technology (A) have forced many people (B) to consider questions that (C) formerly (D) were the special domain of philosophers. (E) No error.

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Jurgis and his family get taken advantage of in this type of bank loan scam, in which the lenders target vulnerable and ignorant people who need money