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Paraphrasing Quiz

Select the correct paraphrase

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Question 4 correct 1 1
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Question 5 correct 1 1
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Question 10 correct

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1. Choose the best paraphrase of the following: In general, female birds are less colorful than
male birds.

• In general, male birds are more attractive than female birds.

• On the whole, the feathers of the female birds are not as striking as that of their
counterpart (correct answer, your response)

• Generally speaking, female birds are less colorful than male birds.

Points earned: 1 out of 1

2. Choose the best paraphrase of the following: A handshake does not mean the same thing
around the world.

• A handshake means something different around the world.

• Internationally, a greeting by shaking hands is not the same. (correct answer, your
response)

• A handshake does not mean the same thing around the world.

Points earned: 1 out of 1

3. Choose the best paraphrase of the following: Trip 5th grade students are the best students in
all of Gwinnett county.

• Trip has the best students in the GCPS system

• Trip 5th grade students are the best students.

• GCPS has it's best elementary pupils in it's last year at Trip. (correct answer, your
response)

Points earned: 1 out of 1

4. Choose the best paraphrase of the following: Climbing mountains is a dangerous activity.

• A perilous sport is mountain climbing (correct answer, your response)
• Climbing mountains is a dangerous activity.
• Climbing mountains can be an unsafe activity.
Points earned: 1 out of 1

5. Choose the best paraphrase of the following: His job wasn't very interesting, but it paid well.

• Though somewhat boring, his job paid well.

• Though somewhat uninteresting, his job paid well.

• Though somewhat boring, his position earned him a handsome income. (correct answer,
your response)

Points earned: 1 out of 1

6. Choose the best paraphrase of the following: You shouldn't talk in school when you are not
supposed to.

• Talking in school is only allowed at lunch
• When in class it is best not to talk, but to listen (correct answer, your response)
• You shouldn't talk in school during math class

Points earned: 1 out of 1

7. Upon returning home, Osiris was murdered by his evil brother Set, who cut Osiris’s body into
pieces and dumped it in the Nile River. Isis found the body and put it back together by winding
linen bandages around it.

• Osiris was murdered and Isis found the body

• Osiris’s brother Set killed Osiris by cutting his body into pieces, and Isis put the body back
together (correct answer, your response)

• Osiris’s body was cut into pieces and dumped it in the Nile River

Points earned: 1 out of 1

8. Commonly used paraphrasing techniques. Which is NOT a paraphrasing technique.

• Synonym
• Moving phrases

• Writing down the words exactly as you see them (correct answer, your response)
• sentence combining
Points earned: 1 out of 1

9. This is an example of what technique?
Statement 1-Overuse of ground water would lead to pervasive drought
Statement 2- Overuse of ground water would cause widespread dryness
• Moving phrases
• Changing Voices
• Synonym (correct answer, your response)
Points earned: 1 out of 1

10. Sentence 1-His job wasn't very interesting, but it paid well.
Sentence 2- His well paying job was not very interesting
What technique is shown here?
• Moving phrases (correct answer, your response)
• Changing Voices
• Synonym
Points earned: 1 out of 1

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