Practice Test E – Structure

1. Portland, Maine, is _____ the poet 5. Many gases, including the nitrogen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spent and oxygen in air, _____ color or
his early years. odor.

(A) where (A) have no

(B) it where (B) which have no
(C) where is (C) not having
(D) which is where (D) they do not have

2. As consumers' response to 6. The American Academy of Poets,

traditional advertising techniques _____ the 1930's, provides financial
declines, businesses are beginning assistance to support working poets.
_____ new methods of reaching
customers. (A) when it was founded
(B) was founded
(A) the development that (C) which was founded in
(B) it developing (D) was founded in
(C) develop
(D) to develop
7. During the Pleistocene glacial
periods _____ portions of the Earth
3. The knee is _____ most other joints where plant and animal life flourished,
in the body because it cannot twist making it possible for people to
without injury. subsist.

(A) more likely to be damaged than (A) the

(B) likely to be more than damaged (B) it was
(C) more than likely to be damaged (C) there were
(D) to be damaged more than likely (D) have there been

4. The quince is an attractive shrub or 8. The photographs of Carrie Mae

small tree _____ closely related to Weems, in which she often makes
the apple and pear trees. her family members _____, are an
affectionate and incisive
(A) is representation of the African
(B) that is American experience.
(C) that it is
(D) is that which (A) are her subjects
(B) her subjects
(C) are subjects
(D) which her subjects
9. Hubble's law states that the greater 13. Scientists believe the first inhabitants
the distance between any two of the Americas arrived by crossing
galaxies, _____ is their relative the land bridge that connected
speed of separation. Siberia and _____ more than I 0,000
years ago.
(A) the greatest
(B) the greater (A) this is Alaska now
(C) greater than (B) Alaska is now
(D) as great as (C) is now Alaska
(D) what is now Alaska

10. The onion is characterized by an

edible bulb composed of leaves rich 14. Fibers of hair and wool are not
in sugar and a pungent oil, _____ the continuous and must normally be
vegetable's strong taste. spun into thread _____ woven into
textile fabrics.
(A) which the source of
(B) that the source is (A) as are they
(C) the source of (B) when to be
(D) of the source is (C) that they are
(D) If they are to be

11. A regional writer with a gift for dialect,

_____ her fiction with the eccentric, 15. Margaret Brent, because of her skill
comic, but vital inhabitants of rural in managing estates, became _____
Mississippi. largest landholders in colonial
Maryland.
(A) and Eudora Welty is peopling
(B) Eudora Welty peoples (A) what the
(C) because Eudora Welty peoples (B) one of the
(D) Eudora Welty, to people (C) who the
(D) the one that

12. Relative humidity is the amount of

water vapor the air contains at a
certain temperature _____ with the
amount it could hold at that
temperature.

(A) to compare
(B) compared
(C) comparing
(D) compares
 Practice Test E – Written Expression

16. The Armory Show, held in New York in 1913, was a important exhibition of
modern European art.

17. Ripe fruit is often stored in a place who contains much carbon dioxide so that
the fruit will not decay too rapidly.

18. In 1852 Massachusetts passed a law requiring all children from four to
eighteen years of old to attend school.

19. The main purpose of classifying animals is to show the most probable
evolutionary relationship of the different species to each another.

20. Matthew C. Perry, a United States naval commander, gained fame not in war
and through diplomacy

21. One of the most impressive collections of nineteenth-century European

paintings in the United States can be found to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

22. Three of every four migrating water birds in North America visits the Gulf of
Mexico's winter wetlands.

23. Charleston, West Virginia, was named for Charles Clendenin who son George
acquired land at the junction of tile Elk and Kanawha rivers in 1787.

24. Financier Andrew Mellon donated most of his magnificent art collection to the
National Gallery of Art, where it is now locating.
25. Soil temperatures in Death Valley, California, near the Nevada border,
have been known to reach 90 of degrees Celsius.

26. When the Sun, Moon, and Earth are alignment and the Moon crosses the
Earth's orbital plane, a solar eclipse occurs.

27. Mary Cassatt's paintings of mothers and children are known for its fine linear
rhythm, simple modelings, and harmonies of clear color.

28. Plants synthesize carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide with the aid of
energy is derived from sunlight.

29. The best American popular music balances a powerful emotions of youth with
tenderness, grace, and wit.

30. In the nineteenth century, women used quilts to inscribe their responses to
social, economic, and politics issues.

31. Fossils in 500-inillion-year-old rocks demonstrate that life forms in the

Cambrian period were mostly marine animals capability of secreting calcium to
form shells.

32. Rainbows in the shape of complete circles are sometimes seen from airplanes
because they are not cutting off by the horizon.

33. Hot at the equator causes the air to expand, rise, and flow toward the poles.
34. Although research has been ongoing since 1930, the existence of ESP –
perception and communication without the use of sight, hear, taste, touch, or
smell – is still disputed.

35. As many as 50 percent of the income from motion pictures produced in the
United States comes from marketing the films abroad.

36. Sleep is controlled by the brain and associated by characteristic breathing

rhythms.

37. The walls around the city of Quebec, which was originally a fort military, still
stand, making Quebec the only walled city in North America.

38. The manufacture of automobile was extremely expensive until assembly-line

techniques made them cheaper to produce

39. The ballad is characterized by informal diction, by a narrative largely

dependent on action and dialogue, by thematic intense, and by stress on
repetition.

40. Eleanor Roosevelt set the standard against which the wives of all United States
Presidents since have evaluated.
 Practice Test E – Answers

Question Number Answer Level of Difficulty Answered Correctly

1 A Easy 91%
2 D Easy 86%
3 A Easy 82%
4 B Easy 78%
5 A Easy 81%
6 C Medium 77%
7 C Medium 68%
8 B Medium 71%
9 B Medium 60%
10 C Medium 59%
11 B Difficult 54%
12 B Difficult 49%
13 D Easy 42%
14 D Easy 41%
15 B Easy 98%
16 B Easy 85%
17 C Easy 94%
18 D Easy 87%
19 D Easy 84%
20 C Easy 80%
21 D Easy 81%
22 C Easy 82%
23 B Medium 75%
24 D Medium 71%
25 D Medium 78%
26 B Medium 71%
27 B Medium 68%
28 C Medium 71%
29 B Medium 63%
30 D Medium 65%
31 D Medium 61%
32 C Medium 59%
33 A Medium 58%
34 D Difficult 55%
35 A Difficult 51%
36 C Difficult 45%
37 B Difficult 45%
38 A Difficult 40%
39 C Difficult 26%
40 D Medium 62%