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Question 1
Which of these statements from the text supports the idea that the Mississippi River is exceptional?
Correct Answer:
It has changed the location of several towns from riverside to rural.
Explanation:
Correct answer: It has changed the location of several towns from riverside to rural.
Question 2
Read this excerpt from the text. The Mississippi receives and carries to the Gulf water from fifty-four subordinate rivers that are navigable by steamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels. As used in the passage, the word navigable is closest in meaning to
Correct Answer:
passable
Explanation:
Correct answer: passable
Question 3
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”?
Correct Answer:
to show that the river’s cut-offs could have a dramatic effect
Explanation:
Correct answer: to show that the river’s cut-offs could have a dramatic effect
Question 4
What detail from the text tells you that the Mississippi River is exceptionally crooked?
Correct Answer:
One part of it is over twice as long as it would be as the crow flies.
Explanation:
Correct answer: One part of it is over twice as long as it would be as the crow flies.
Question 5
The author mentions Captain Marryat, who calls the Mississippi River “the Great Sewer.” This phrase refers to
Correct Answer:
the remarkable amount of mud the river discharges
Explanation:
Correct answer: the remarkable amount of mud the river discharges
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Prepare with the CHSPE ELA Reading Pretest 2026 (Review Questions) practice quiz. This question bank includes 20 questions covering text, river, mississippi, read, and excerpt. Use it to review important concepts, identify knowledge gaps, and build confidence for the related exam, course, or assessment.

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CHSPE ELA Reading Pretest 2026 (Review Questions)

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