Everyone has different names for the kind of play we just witnessed. My team calls it a Morganism. That’s because one time last year, my friend Morgan jumped to make a catch, collided with another player, fell down, and still managed to snag the ball.

Based on the paragraph, what is a Morganism?

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Responses

An unlikely but successful sports play
An unlikely but successful sports play

A difficult play in a sports setting
A difficult play in a sports setting

A humorous outcome after a tense moment
A humorous outcome after a tense moment

An upset caused by a lucky move in sports

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A Morganism refers to an unlikely but successful sports play.

2. Use the sentence to answer the question.


He became class president by promising the electorate he would extend recess time.


Based on the context, who is part of this electorate?

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Responses

All students and teachers
All students and teachers

An entire school
An entire school

Influential students in a group
Influential students in a group

The students in one class

Based on the context, the electorate consists of the students in one class.

The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness. I have frequently found myself in tears while hearing them. The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek.


Based on the paragraph, what best describes Douglass’s tone?

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Responses

Reflective
Reflective

Confused
Confused

Sorrowful
Sorrowful

Serious

Based on the paragraph, the best description of Douglass’s tone is sorrowful.

That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon."





Based on the paragraph, what best describes Douglass’s tone?

(2 points)
Responses

angry
angry

informational
informational

sorrowful
sorrowful

serious

Based on the paragraph, the best description of Douglass’s tone is angry.

If any one wishes to be impressed with the soul-killing effects of slavery, let him go to Colonel Lloyd’s plantation, and, on allowance-day, place himself in the deep pine woods, and there let him, in silence, analyze the sounds that shall pass through the chambers of his soul,—and if he is not thus impressed, it will only be because “there is no flesh in his obdurate heart.”


Using context clues, what is the most-likely meaning of obdurate?

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Responses

accepting
accepting

stubborn
stubborn

grieving
grieving

tired

Using context clues, the most likely meaning of obdurate is stubborn.