Anthem

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Anthem
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Chicago
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The Jungle
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In-Context Vocabulary
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SAT Writing
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In-context Vocabulary
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The Jungle
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Anthem
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Ayn Rand emigrated to America from this country.
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What is Russia?
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This is the name of Ayn Rands personal
philosophy.
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What is Objectivism?
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Unlike Upton Sinclair, Ayn Rand liked this type
of economic system.
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What is capitalism?
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The protagonist of the novel gets this name, an
allusion to a mythical bringer of light.
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What is Prometheus?
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The Latin term for one of the protagonists
names it is also the name of a famous poem.
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What is Invictus?
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Given his use of colloquial language, Sandburgs
primary audience is probably this.
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What is the common man?
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Sandburgs poem Fish Crier is similar in theme
to this series of poems by Blake.
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What are Songs of Innocence?
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Sandburgs poem Happiness is similar in theme
to this poem by Walt Whitman.
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What is When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer?
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This word could be used to describe the mood of
the fish crier.
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What is excited?
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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 Sinclairs primary goal in writing
The Jungle.
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What is exposing the plight of the immigrant
worker?
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Upton Sinclair was a part of this journalistic
movement, along with Tarbell and Steffans.
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What is Muck-Raking?
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Sinclair disdained Capitalism, and instead
preferred this economic system.
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What is Socialism?
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Jurgis and his family emigrate from this country.
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What is Lithuania?
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Jurgiss family gets very sick and he gets
injured during this season.
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What is winter?
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Lets hope there arent any vermin in your meat
from Jurgiss meat factory.
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What are rodents?
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Jurgis was obstinate about his belief that he
could still achieve the American Dream.
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What is stubborn?
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George and Lenny are two famous transient workers.
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What is migrant or moving?
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I hope this accursed test isnt too hard tomorrow!
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What is cursed or damnable?
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The prestidigitator demonstrated his
extraordinary mastery of sleight of hand.
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What is a magician?
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• Abida quickly realized that 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
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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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B. diminutive
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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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B. proximity
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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
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• 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. stipulateaccomplishments
• B. contemplatejournals
• C. surmisedeeds
• D. allegeassertions
• E. elicitmissives

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C. surmisedeeds
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• Only after reading it carefully 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
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• 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
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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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B. their tendency
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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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D. threaten
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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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A. have forced
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Final Jeopardy
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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
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What is predatory mortgage lending?