CHSPE ELA Reading Pretest 2026 (Review Questions)

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Read this excerpt from the text. A cut-off plays havoc with boundary lines and jurisdictions: for instance, a man is living in the State of Mississippi to-day, a cut-off occurs to-night, and to-morrow the man finds himself and his land over on the other side of the river, within the boundaries and subject to the laws of the State of Louisiana! Such a thing, happening in the upper river in the old times, could have transferred a slave from Missouri to Illinois and made a free man of him. Why does the author write that “Such a thing, happening in the upper river in the old times, could have transferred a slave from Missouri to Illinois and made a free man of him”?

greed contributed to the overvaluing of tulips It has changed the location of several towns from riverside to rural. to show that the river’s cut-offs could have a dramatic effect providing facts and examples about the river

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to show that the river’s cut-offs could have a dramatic effect

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Correct answer: to show that the river’s cut-offs could have a dramatic effect

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