Understanding Oral Tradition Quick Check Understanding Oral Tradition Quick Check
Item 1
Use the excerpt to answer the question.
Item 2
It is thus among all of the animals too, even down to the little frogs. The father frog, on his death bed, asks,
"Who is my best friend?"
Item 3
And all of the little frogs answer, "Nehpo, Nehpo, Nehpo."
Item 4
You have heard them.
Item 5
What does this story explain?
(1 point)
O Why Yaqui children are important to their
rents
O Why frogs are important to the Yaqui
o What happens after a person dies
o Why frogs make a certain sound

Besides the skull and cross bones what other shape sometimes appeared on flags flown by pirates?

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.

Which statement is not true about run-on sentences? a. a run-on sentence has more than one clause. b. one way to correct a run-on sentence is to add a joining word c. one way to correct a run-on sentence is to add an appropriate punctuation mark. d. a run-on sentence has only one clause.