{"id":25977,"date":"2022-12-01T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/prep\/?p=25977"},"modified":"2022-12-05T19:35:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T19:35:12","slug":"psat-writing-and-language-quiz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/psat\/psat-writing-and-language-quiz-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW: PSAT Writing and Language Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Test your <a title=\"psat writing and language\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/psat\">PSAT readiness<\/a> by taking this PSAT Writing and Language quiz!<\/p>\n<div  class='avia-builder-widget-area clearfix  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_promobox  avia-builder-el-first '><div id=\"custom_html-25\" class=\"widget_text widget clearfix widget_custom_html\"><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><div><div class='op-interactive' id='635980b0d0b45432be176af3' data-title='PSAT Writing and Language Quiz #2' data-url='https:\/\/kaplannorthamerica.outgrow.us\/635980b0d0b45432be176af3?vHeight=1' data-width='100%'><\/div><script src='\/\/dyv6f9ner1ir9.cloudfront.net\/assets\/js\/nloader.js'><\/script><script>initIframe('635980b0d0b45432be176af3');<\/script><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Read the\u00a0following passage. For each question, look to the corresponding number in the\u00a0passage and determine what corrections, if any,\u00a0should be made to the underlined text<em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One shudders to contemplate Michelangelo\u2019s reaction if he were to gaze up today at the famous frescoes he painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel over four centuries ago. A practical (1)\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>man: he<\/b><\/span>\u00a0would no doubt be unsurprised by the effects of time and environment on his masterpiece. He would be philosophical about the damage wrought by mineral salts left behind when rainwater leaked through the roof. He would probably also accept the layers of dirt and soot from coal braziers that heated the chapel and from candles, and incense burned during religious functions. However, he would be appalled by the ravages recently inflicted on his work by restorers.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Vatican restoration team reveled in inducing a jarringly colorful transformation of the frescoes with special, cleaning solvents and computerized analysis equipment. However, the restorers did not achieve this (2) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>effect as they claimed<\/strong><\/span> merely by removing the dirt and animal glue (employed by earlier restorers to revive muted colors) from the (2) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>frescoes: the team<\/strong><\/span> removed Michelangelo\u2019s final touches as well. Gone from the ceiling is the quality of suppressed anger and thunderous pessimism so often commented upon by admiring scholars. That quality was not an artifact of grime, not a misleading monochrome imposed on\u00a0the ceiling by time, for Michelangelo himself applied a veil of glaze to the frescoes to darken them after he had deemed his work too bright. The master would have felt compelled to add a few more layers of glaze had the ceiling radiated forth as it does now. The solvents of the restorers (4) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>stripped away the shadows of the frescoes, reacted chemically with Michelangelo\u2019s pigments, and ultimately produced hues the painter never intended for his art.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of course, the restorers left open an avenue for the reversal of their progress toward color and brightness. Since the layers of animal glue were no longer there to serve as (5) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>protection the<\/strong><\/span> atmospheric pollutants from the city of Rome gained direct access to the frescoes. Observers already noticed significant darkening in some of the restored work a mere four years after its completion. It remains to be seen whether the measure introduced to arrest this process: an extensive climate-control system\u2014will itself have any long-term effect on the chapel\u2019s ceiling.<\/em><\/p>\n\t<div   class='av_promobox  avia-button-no   avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_sidebar  el_before_av_toggle_container '>\t\t<div class='avia-promocontent'><p>\n<strong>Question 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A.\u00a0NO CHANGE<\/p>\n<p>B.\u00a0man he<\/p>\n<p>C.\u00a0man, he<\/p>\n<p>D.\u00a0man\u2014he<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div  class=\"togglecontainer   toggle_close_all  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_promobox  el_before_av_promobox \" >\n<section class=\"av_toggle_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\"  >    <div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  >        <p data-fake-id=\"#toggle-id-1\" class=\"toggler \"  itemprop=\"headline\"    role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"toggle-id-1\">Answer 1<span class=\"toggle_icon\" >        <span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>        <div id=\"toggle-id-1\" class=\"toggle_wrap \"  >            <div class=\"toggle_content invers-color \"  itemprop=\"text\"   ><p><b>C:\u00a0<\/b>As written, the colon is used improperly: a colon can follow an independent clause only. Eliminate (A). The words before the punctuation mark, \u201cA practical man,\u201d form an introductory phrase. An introductory phrase should be followed by a comma, so (C) is correct. (B) is incorrect because it runs the phrases together, and the use of the dash in (D) is incorrect for the same reason as is the colon in (A).<\/p>\n            <\/div>        <\/div>    <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\t<div   class='av_promobox  avia-button-no   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_toggle_container  el_before_av_toggle_container '>\t\t<div class='avia-promocontent'><p>\n<strong>Question 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A.\u00a0NO CHANGE<\/p>\n<p>B.\u00a0effect, as they claimed, merely<\/p>\n<p>C.\u00a0effect as they claimed, merely<\/p>\n<p>D.\u00a0effect, as they claimed merely<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div  class=\"togglecontainer   toggle_close_all  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_promobox  el_before_av_promobox \" >\n<section class=\"av_toggle_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\"  >    <div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  >        <p data-fake-id=\"#toggle-id-2\" class=\"toggler \"  itemprop=\"headline\"    role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"toggle-id-2\">Answer 2<span class=\"toggle_icon\" >        <span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>        <div id=\"toggle-id-2\" class=\"toggle_wrap \"  >            <div class=\"toggle_content invers-color \"  itemprop=\"text\"   ><p><b>B:\u00a0<\/b>Remember that punctuation must be used to set off parenthetical information. In this sentence, the phrase \u201cas they claimed\u201d is parenthetical in the sentence\u2014without this nonessential phrase, the essential idea of the sentence, \u201cthe restorers did not achieve this effect merely by removing the dirt &#8230; from\u00a0the frescoes\u201d still makes logical sense. Since punctuation must set off parenthetical information, (B) is correct because it is the only choice that uses a comma at both the beginning and the end of the phrase.<\/p>\n            <\/div>        <\/div>    <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\t<div   class='av_promobox  avia-button-no   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_toggle_container  el_before_av_toggle_container '>\t\t<div class='avia-promocontent'><p>\n<strong>Question 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. NO CHANGE<\/p>\n<p>B.\u00a0frescoes, the team<\/p>\n<p>C.\u00a0frescoes and the team<\/p>\n<p>D.\u00a0frescoes the team<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div  class=\"togglecontainer   toggle_close_all  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_promobox  el_before_av_promobox \" >\n<section class=\"av_toggle_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\"  >    <div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  >        <p data-fake-id=\"#toggle-id-3\" class=\"toggler \"  itemprop=\"headline\"    role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"toggle-id-3\">Answer 3<span class=\"toggle_icon\" >        <span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>        <div id=\"toggle-id-3\" class=\"toggle_wrap \"  >            <div class=\"toggle_content invers-color \"  itemprop=\"text\"   ><p><b>A:\u00a0<\/b>Analyze both the types of clauses and the relationship between their ideas to determine how they should be punctuated. The clause before the punctuation is an independent clause, a complete thought with subject-verb: \u201cthe restorers did not achieve.\u201d The clause after the punctuation is also an independent clause with subject-verb: \u201cthe team removed.\u201d The ideas of the clauses are closely related: the first sentence states that the \u201ceffect\u201d was not \u201cmerely\u201d the result of \u201cremoving the dirt and animal glue,\u201d and the second sentence explains what else was done to achieve the effect (\u201cremov[ing] Michelangelo\u2019s final touches\u201d). Since the part of the sentence before the punctuation is an independent clause and the second part helps to explain the first, a colon effectively punctuates these two closely related clauses, so (A) is correct. The other choices create run-on sentences by improperly joining two independent clauses.<\/p>\n            <\/div>        <\/div>    <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\t<div   class='av_promobox  avia-button-no   avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_toggle_container  el_before_av_toggle_container '>\t\t<div class='avia-promocontent'><p>\n<strong>Question 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A.\u00a0NO CHANGE<\/p>\n<p>B.\u00a0stripped away the shadows of the frescoes reacted chemically with Michelangelo\u2019s pigments, and ultimately produced hues the painter never intended for his art.<\/p>\n<p>C.\u00a0stripped away the shadows of the frescoes; reacted chemically with Michelangelo\u2019s pigments; and ultimately produced hues the painter never intended for his art.<\/p>\n<p>D.\u00a0stripped away the shadows of the frescoes, reacted chemically with Michelangelo\u2019s pigments; and ultimately produced hues the painter never intended for his art.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div  class=\"togglecontainer   toggle_close_all  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_promobox  el_before_av_promobox \" >\n<section class=\"av_toggle_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\"  >    <div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  >        <p data-fake-id=\"#toggle-id-4\" class=\"toggler \"  itemprop=\"headline\"    role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"toggle-id-4\">Answer 4<span class=\"toggle_icon\" >        <span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>        <div id=\"toggle-id-4\" class=\"toggle_wrap \"  >            <div class=\"toggle_content invers-color \"  itemprop=\"text\"   ><p><b>A:\u00a0<\/b>Items in a series should be separated by commas. This series is lengthy, but the rule is the same. The underlined portion lists the things that the \u201csolvents\u201d did: \u201cstripped,\u201d \u201creacted,\u201d and \u201cproduced.\u201d These should be separated by commas, so (A) is correct. Semicolons, as in (C) and (D), are required only in series to separate groups of related items; when this occurs, the related items are separated by commas.<\/p>\n            <\/div>        <\/div>    <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\t<div   class='av_promobox  avia-button-no   avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_toggle_container  el_before_av_toggle_container '>\t\t<div class='avia-promocontent'><p>\n<strong>Question 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. NO CHANGE<\/p>\n<p>B.\u00a0protection, the<\/p>\n<p>C.\u00a0protection\u2014the<\/p>\n<p>D.\u00a0protection; the<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div  class=\"togglecontainer   toggle_close_all  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_promobox  avia-builder-el-last \" >\n<section class=\"av_toggle_section\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\"  >    <div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  >        <p data-fake-id=\"#toggle-id-5\" class=\"toggler \"  itemprop=\"headline\"    role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"toggle-id-5\">Answer 5<span class=\"toggle_icon\" >        <span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>        <div id=\"toggle-id-5\" class=\"toggle_wrap \"  >            <div class=\"toggle_content invers-color \"  itemprop=\"text\"   ><p><b>B:\u00a0<\/b>This sentence begins with a subordinating clause (\u201cSince the layers &#8230; protection\u201d). Because this clause is not a complete thought, it is a dependent clause that must be joined to the rest of the sentence with a comma, so (B) is correct. (A) runs the clauses together, while (C) and (D) punctuate the sentence as though it consisted of two independent clauses.<\/p>\n            <\/div>        <\/div>    <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>Previous: <a title=\"psat writing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/study\/psat\/psat-writing-and-language-quiz\/\">PSAT Writing and Language Quiz 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Test your PSAT readiness by taking this PSAT Writing and Language quiz! Read the\u00a0following passage. 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