Exam 6: Narration

Each question below is a plan for a narrative paragraph. The events in the plans are not in the correct chronological order. For each plan, select the answer that numbers the events in the proper time sequence. Physical education instructor James Naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891. ____ Thinking of how these ancient games required balls that went through holes, he rounded up two peach baskets and a soccer ball. ____ In December 1891, the director of the YMCA School where Naismith worked asked him to come up with a game that would occupy a class of rowdy students. ____ Then, he divided his class of eighteen into two teams of nine players each, taught them to throw the soccer ball into the peach basket. ____ Naismith, needing a game that could be played indoors in a relatively small space, remembered a description of Ollamalitzli and Ulama, Aztec and Mayan ball games he had read about in a magazine. ____ He nailed the peach baskets to the lower railing of the gym balcony.

Each question below is a plan for a narrative paragraph. Events in each plan are not in correct chronological order. For each plan, select the letter of the answer that numbers the events in the proper time sequence. Since its establishment over 150 years ago, Steinway & Sons has become known for making some of the world's most innovative and highest quality pianos. ____ Today, the Steinway company still dominates the piano industry, crafting about 5,000 pianos a year for appreciative musicians all over the world. ____ Instrument maker Henry Steinway established his business in Germany but then moved to America in 1850, bringing with him his vision of building a piano better and stronger than any made before. ____ In 1854, Henry and his sons embarked upon a forty-year period of revolutionizing and perfecting the modern piano, patenting 114 innovations in the process. ____ Henry Steinway Jr. was awarded in 1859 the patent for the overstrung scale, a significant development that helped the grand piano rise to the demands of leading composers such as Chopin and Liszt.

Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow. (1) An unlikely friendship formed in 2005 at the Mutsugoro Okoku Zoo near Tokyo, Japan. (2) In October of that year, a snake named Aochan refused to eat the frozen mice zookeepers gave him for his dinner. (3) Then, the zookeepers presented a live hamster named Gohan, which means "meal." (4) Instead of eating the hamster, however, Aochan made friends with it. (5) Three months later, when newspapers began to print the story, predator and prey were still sharing a box. (6) Gohan was even taking naps on top of the snake, who eventually developed a taste for frozen rodents. (7) Even then, Aochan showed no sign of wanting to gobble up his new companion. Select the number of the topic sentence that tells the point of the story.

Select the part of the sentence that contains a grammar or punctuation error. Some culture believe that tattoos can protect against sickness and misfortune. People in other cultures use tattoos merely for decoration.

Select the part of the sentence that contains a grammar or punctuation error. People choose vegetarianism for a number of reason . Some people choose vegetarianism out of compassion for animals.

Select the part of the sentence that contains a grammar or punctuation error. According to recent studies, over 7 million americans eat a meatless diet, and more than 22 million adults limit their consumption of animal products.

Select the part of the sentence that contains a grammar or punctuation error. These needles had been dip in dyes of various colors.

Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow. (1) Horace Bristol might be the only photographer to owe his fame to his child's book report. (2) Before he became an architect, Bristol had been a documentary journalist. (3) One day his teenage son was writing a report on The Grapes of Wrath , John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma farm family forced off their drought-stricken land during the 1930s. (4) He asked his father if he'd ever read the book. (5) Not only had he read it, Bristol replied, he had dreamed up the idea for it, recruited Steinbeck to write it, and photographed thousands of real farm families forced to leave their homes. (6) After revealing his past to his son, Bristol the photographer came out of hiding. (7) Hoping to sell a few of his photographs, he was soon astounded by the prices they commanded. (8) Encouraged, he took up his camera once again. (9) Since then, the photographs of Horace Bristol have become famous. (10) His images of despair during the Depression, heroism in the Pacific during World War II, and postwar poverty and hope in rural Korea are among the greatest photographs of the twentieth century. In the paragraph above, transitional expressions that indicate time include all of the following except :

Select the part of the sentence that contains a grammar or punctuation error. Elaborate tattoos could be placed almost anywhere on a persons' body: arms, back, scalp , shoulders, and so on.

Each question below is a plan for a narrative paragraph. The events in the plans are not in the correct chronological order. Select the letter of the answer that numbers the events in the proper time sequence. In 1897, Lena Jordan performed the first triple somersault on the flying trapeze, but for years she did not get credit. ____ For the next sixty-six years, all the record books listed Clarke as the record holder, not Jordan. ____ When a second person, a man named Ernest Clarke, managed a triple somersault in 1909, he received national attention. ____ Only recently did the Guinness Book of World Records give Jordan sole credit for the first triple somersault in circus history. ____ In 1975, the Guinness Book of World Records finally listed Lena Jordan's achievement, but only in addition to Clarke's.

Each question below is a plan for a narrative paragraph. The events in the plans are not in the correct chronological order. Select the letter of the answer that numbers the events in the proper time sequence. Aesop's fable about a dog and his reflection teaches a lesson about greed. ____ In the reflection, he thought he saw another dog with another piece of meat in his mouth, so he decided to get that one, too. ____ Now the dog had nothing at all to eat. ____ A dog was happily carrying a piece of meat in his mouth and came to a bridge he had to cross. ____ While crossing the bridge, he saw his reflection in the water of a running brook. ____ When he snapped at the reflection, the meat dropped from his mouth into the water and sank.

Select the part of the sentence that contains a grammar or punctuation error. Some believe that a vegetarian diet provides health benefits, still others want to demonstrate their concern for world hunger and the environment.

Each question below is a plan for a narrative paragraph. Events in each plan are not in correct chronological order. For each plan, select the letter of the answer that numbers the events in the proper time sequence. Alexander Fleming's discovery of the first antibiotic was accidental. ____ By 1939, researchers had figured out how to get penicillin to kill bacteria inside the body, a discovery that would help many wounded soldiers in World War II. ____ In 1928, Fleming, who kept a messy laboratory, left a Petri dish contaminated with bacteria in his sink. ____ Studying the mold, he noticed that bacteria would not grow near it. ____ Although Fleming stopped studying penicillin after 1931, researchers at Oxford University continued his work. ____ The next day, he discovered that airborne spores had invaded the dish and grown a blue-green fungus, or mold. ____ He named the bacteria-inhibiting substance penicillin after the Penicillium notatum fungus that produced it.

Select the part of the sentence that contains a grammar or punctuation error. A lactovegetarian can eat dairy products but not eggs. Veganism is the most strictest form of vegetarianism.

Each question below is a plan for a narrative paragraph. The events in the plans are not in the correct chronological order. Select the letter of the answer that numbers the events in the proper time sequence. In a lifetime of many successes, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams pioneered open-heart surgery the day he operated on James Cornish. ____ According to eyewitnesses, Williams first made a six-inch incision and removed Cornish's fifth rib. ____ Cornish's frightened friends brought him to Provident Hospital, the first interracial hospital in the United States. ____ Then he repaired a torn artery and stitched up the punctured sac surrounding the heart. ____ On July 9, 1893, James Cornish received a deep knife gash near his heart during a fight. ____ Dr. Williams examined Cornish and immediately decided to operate. ____ Fifty-one days later, Cornish left the hospital, recovered and deeply grateful to Dr. Williams for his life.

Each question below is a plan for a narrative paragraph. The events in the plans are not in the correct chronological order. For each plan, select the answer that numbers the events in the proper time sequence. The tragic end of Shakespeare's famous characters Romeo and Juliet is the result of a series of accidents, bad timing, and bad luck. ____ Therefore, Romeo believes her dead, so when he visits her tomb, he swallows poison and dies just moments before Juliet awakes. ____ Exiled for his crime, Romeo is forced to leave town. ____ To begin, unaware that they are members of two feuding families, Romeo and Juliet meet, fall immediately in love, and marry in secret. ____ Unfortunately, Romeo never receives the message that explains Juliet's trick. ____ Wanting to run away and live with her exiled husband, Juliet decides to fake her own death, by taking a potion that puts her into a deathlike coma. ____ Right after he marries Juliet, Romeo kills Juliet's cousin in a fight. ____ Upon awakening and seeing Romeo's lifeless body beside her, Juliet kills herself with his dagger.

Select the part of the sentence that contains a grammar or punctuation error. Whatever their reasons, a vegetarian makes a conscious effort to plan his or her diet and improve their life.

Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow. (1) An unlikely friendship formed in 2005 at the Mutsugoro Okoku Zoo near Tokyo, Japan. (2) In October of that year, a snake named Aochan refused to eat the frozen mice zookeepers gave him for his dinner. (3) Then, the zookeepers presented a live hamster named Gohan, which means "meal." (4) Instead of eating the hamster, however, Aochan made friends with it. (5) Three months later, when newspapers began to print the story, predator and prey were still sharing a box. (6) Gohan was even taking naps on top of the snake, who eventually developed a taste for frozen rodents. (7) Even then, Aochan showed no sign of wanting to gobble up his new companion. Which of the following sentences does NOT contain a transitional expression that indicates time?

Select the part of the sentence that contains a grammar or punctuation error. A vegetarian is a person, who does not eat meat, poultry, or fish.

Select the part of the sentence that contains a grammar or punctuation error. Although the Japanese aristocracy scorned tattooing. Poor persons, workers, and craftsmen proudly wore these decorations.