Chapter 10: Review Test 6

Chapter 10: Review Test 6

Studying Details to State the Topic

A. Read each group of specific details. In the space provided, use your own words to write the best statement of the topic for each group.

1. Specific details: Sesame Street, Barney, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

Topic:

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

2. Specific details: wood, dry wall, stucco, cement blocks, bricks

Topic:

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

3. Specific details: Tokyo; Ottawa; Paris; Washington, D.C.

Topic:

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

4. Specific details: president, vice president, dean, department chair

Topic:

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

5. Specific details: magazines, books, encyclopedias, computers, reference works

Topic:

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

6. Specific details: quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies

Topic:

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

7. Specific details: Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore, Roseanne

Topic:

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

8. Specific details: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, topaz

Topic:

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

B. Read the following paragraphs. Then choose the best statement of the implied main idea for each paragraph.

9. ¹Kashada has decided to enroll in college. ²Kashada says she wants to be an elementary teacher. ³She is keeping her part-time job, but she is adjusting her work hours. ⁴She wants to spend time studying at home and with a study group, and she wants to have time to meet with her teachers.⁵By the end of the semester, she plans to have straight A's.

The implied main idea for the paragraph is

a. Kashada is going to keep working.

b. Kashada is determined to succeed.

c. Kashada is going to meet with her teachers.

10. ¹The Roman emperor Nero (A.D. 54-68) demanded that he be worshiped as a god. ²Stating a belief in Jesus as God became a crime against the state. ³Under Nero's rule, a Christian could be pardoned if he or she would burn incense to a Roman god.⁴Many Christians refused to do so; Nero put them into prison and tortured them. ⁵Some Christians were nailed to poles, covered with pitch, and set afire; they became human torches that lighted Nero's courtyard.

The implied main idea of the paragraph is

a. People have long suffered for religious reasons.

b. The emperor Nero wanted to be worshiped.

c. Many Christians suffered under Nero's rule.

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