Dr. Norman Prinsky

Engl. 1101

Test on Ch. 43 (Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers) in NMHH

1. The problem with the following sentence -- “The hikers watched the storm gathering force from the cabin’s porch” -- is that: (a) the hikers’ action is unclear (b) the storm appears to be weakening rather than strengthening (c) the hikers’ emotion is unclear (d) the storm seems to be originating on the cabin’s porch

2. The problem with the following sentence -- “President Roosevelt declared a bank holiday quickly helping to restore confidence in the nation’s financial system” -- is that: (a) the result of the president’s action isn’t clear (b) the speed could apply to either the declaring or the restoring (c) who did the declaring isn’t clear (d) what was being declared isn’t clear

3. The problem with the following sentence -- “Historians who object to this account vehemently argue that the presidency was never endangered” -- is: (a) whether the historians’ emotion was in objecting or in arguing (b) that the intensity of the historians’ emotion is unclear (c) whether any arguing took place among historians (d) which political office was involved

4. The problem with the following sentence -- “The restaurant only offers vegetarian dishes for dinner” -- is the unclearness about: (a) whether vegetarian dishes at the restaurant can be gotten just at dinner (not at lunch) (b) whether the restaurant offers only vegetarian dishes (no meat) at dinner (c) a and b (d) whether the restaurant ever offers vegetarian dishes

43.1

5. 43.1#1 - Choose the better form or forms: (a) the present sentence (b) During his career as an architect and engineer, R. Buckminster Fuller developed . . . (c) R. Buckminster Fuller, during his career as an architect and engineer, developed . . . (d) b & c

6. 43.1#2 - Choose the better form or forms: (a) the present sentence (b) A weak student, Fuller was . . . (c) a & b (d) Fuller was expelled from Harvard, a weak student

7. 43.1#3 - Choose the better form or forms: (a) the present sentence (b) After suffering from . . . 32, Fuller resolved . . . (c) Fuller resolved to dedicate, after suffering . . . 32, his life . . . lives (d) Fuller, after suffering . . . 32, resolved . . . lives (e) b & d

8. 43.1#4 - Choose the better form or forms: (a) the present sentence (b) designs not to waste (c) designs to save precious resources (d) a & b

9. 43.1#5 - What is the worst form: (a) the present sentence (b) Often, those who doubted (c) Those who doubted Fuller were proved wrong often (d) b & c

10. 43.1#6 - Choose the better form or forms: (a) the present sentence (b) To most people today, Fuller is . . . dome (c) Fuller is known to most people today as the . . . dome (d) b & c

11. 43.1#7 - Choose the better form or forms: (a) the present sentence (b) The geodesic dome, which . . . 1940s, is . . . economical (c) A spherical structure that is both lightweight and economical, Fuller developed the geodesic dome . . . 1940s

12. 43.1#8 - Choose the better form or forms: (a) the present sentence (b) Around the world based on Fuller’s designs, today there . . . domes (c) There are more than 300,000 domes around the world based on Fuller’s designs today (d) Around the world today, there are more than 3000,000 domes based on Fuller’s designs

13. 43.1#9 - Choose the better form or forms: (a) the present sentence (b) His contention, policy makers have largely ignored, is that wind generators . . . needs (c) His contention . . . needs has been largely ignored by policy makers

14. 43.1#10 - Choose the better form or forms: (a) the present sentence (b) His twenty-eight books, in which . . . issues, have sold . . . copies (c) Having sold more than . . . copies, in which he wrote . . . issues, Fuller wrote twenty-eight books

15. The subject matter of exercise 43.1 could best be described as pertaining to: (a) history (b) architecture (c) engineering (d) biography (e) b, c, and d

43.2

16. 43.2#1 Choose the best form or forms: (a) fine as is (b) Georgia O’Keeffe lived and worked, admired by . . . world, without regard . . . trends (c) Georgia O’Keeffe lived and . . . trends, admired . . . world

17. 43.2#2 Choose the best grammatical form or forms: (a) fine as is (b) Her color-saturated . . . reproduced, as one of the most admired . . . century (c) The color-saturated images of cactus flowers, bleached bones, and pale skies by O’Keefe, one of the most . . . century, are widely reproduced (d) a & b

18. 43.2#3 Choose the best grammatical form or forms: (a) fine as is (b) Art, growing up in Wisconsin, was always important to her (c) O’Keeffe having grown up in Wisconsin, art was . . .

19. 43.2#4 Choose the best grammatical form or forms: (a) fine as is (b) One of her teachers said, “When the . . . week,” defending her gifted student to the principal (c) One of her teachers, defending her gifted student to the principal, said, “When . . . a week”

20. 43.2#5 Choose the best grammatical form or forms: (a) fine as is (b) Some of O’Keeffe’s drawings, without informing her, were exhibited by Alfred Steiglitz at his 291 Gallery (c) Some of O’Keeffe’s drawings were exhibited by Alfred Steiglitz at his 291 Gallery without informing her (d) Without informing O’Keeffe, Alfred Steiglitz exhibited some of her drawings at his 291 gallery

21. 43.2#6 Choose the best grammatical form or forms: (a) fine as is (b) O’Keeffe and Steiglitz, marrying in 1924, enjoyed one of the most fruitful collaborations of the modernist era (c) O’Keeffe and Steiglitz enjoyed one of the most fruitful collaborations of the modernist era, marrying in 1924 (d) a and b

22. 43.2#7 Choose the best grammatical form or forms: (a) fine as is (b) New York City, despite critical financial success in the 1920s, did not provide suitable subject matter for her paintings (c) Despite her critical and financial success in 1920's New York City, O’Keeffe could not find suitable subject matter for her paintings there

23. 43.2#8 Choose the best grammatical form or forms: (a) fine as is (b) O’Keeffe, vacationing . . . 1929, discovered . . . New Mexico (c) O’Keeffe discovered the stark natural beauty of Taos, New Mexico, vacationing with a friend in the summer of 1929 (d) a and b

24. The subject matter of exercise 43.2 could best be described as: (a) political science (b) art history (c) sociology (d) economics

43.3

Divide up the paragraphs as follows: (a) “Henri Matisse” (b) “Although rivals” (c) “Picasso’s work” (d) “Yet Matisse” (e) “Looking for” (f) “Yet each” (g) “Matisse painted”

25. 43.3 In sentence (a) the best grammatical form or forms is/are: (a) the present sentence (b) “are considered to have often been the formative artists” (c) “to often have been the formative artists” (d) ”often are considered to have been the formative artists”

26. 43.3 In sentence (b) the best grammatical form or forms is/are: (a) the present sentence (b) A traveling exhibit, called “Matisse Picasso,” although rivals for most of their careers, exhibited their work . . . York (c) Despite the two being rivals for most of their careers, a traveling . . . York

27. 43.3 In sentence (c) the best grammatical form or forms is/are: (a) the present sentence (b) Probably more disturbing, Picasso’s work also seems more daring and experimental than Matisse’s (c) Picasso’s work, apparently more disturbing, is, in comparison to Matisse’s, seemingly more daring and experimental

28. 43.3 In sentence (d) the best grammatical form or forms is/are: (a) the present sentence (b) Matisse, as well as Picasso, with his use of vivid colors and distorted shapes, was a daring innovator

29. 43.3 In sentence (e) the best grammatical form or forms is/are: (a) the present sentence (b) Looking for similarities, viewers can note that the works . . . anxiety (c) A search for similarities in the two artists reveals an underlying anxiety in the works of both (d) b and c

30. 43.3 In sentence (f) the best grammatical form or forms is/are: (a) the present sentence (b) In different ways each yet responded to this anxiety (c) Yet each responded in different ways to this anxiety (d) a and c

31. 43.3 In sentence (g) the best grammatical form or forms is/are: (a) the present sentence (b) Matisse painted by contrast tranquil yet often . . . disquieting images (c) By contrast, Matisse painted tranquil . . . images

32. The subject matter of exercise 43.3 could best be described as: (a) political science (b) art history (c) sociology (d) economics