MTEL General Curriculum Practice Exam - Question List

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1.
Which of the following sentences provides an example of agreement between a pronoun and its antecedent?
  1. Several of the guests had mailed their gifts prior to the party.
  2. One of the runners was showing their fatigue.
  3. Each of the officials has worked to protect their own interests.
  4. Neither of the children likes to share their toys.
2.
Which of the following sentences contains an error in punctuation?
  1. The athlete plays several sports during the school year: baseball, basketball, volleyball, and tennis.
  2. The movie was fantastic but, I had to leave for a moment to take a telephone call.
  3. I worked all night long to complete the project; my professor will be impressed with the product.
  4. Don't you think that it's always a good idea to knock before entering any room?
3.
During the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Europe, which of the following was the most significant reason for the increased criticism of organized religion and demand for reform by common people?
  1. The emergence of women as writers and artists.
  2. The development of realism in Renaissance painting.
  3. The beginning of exploration across the Atlantic Ocean.
  4. The widespread printing of the Bible in the vernacular.
4.
Read the sentences below; then answer the question that follows.
  1.  Read the sentences below; then answer the question that follows. 
  2.  The teacher only studied how to read the language.
  3.  The teacher studied only how to read the language. 
The position of the word only changes the meaning of each of the sentences above. This is an example of a manipulation of which of the following elements of language?
  1. Semantics
  2. Syntax
  3. Phonology
  4. Lexicon
5.
In a biographical approach to literary criticism, which of the following aspects of a novel receives the most attention?
  1. Connections to the author's personal history.
  2. Assessments of its impact on other authors' work.
  3. References to contemporary cultural and political life.
  4. Responses by readers to its major themes and ideas.

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