A group of artisans, shopkeepers, and small-time merchants opposed the Stamp Act and considered themselves British patriots defending their liberty, just as their forebears had done in the time of James II.  

These were a series of English mercantilist laws enacted between 1651 and 1696 to control trade with the colonies

Well-born British colonial women who led a non-importation movement against British goods

  Directions: Choose the appropriate letter to indicate the conclusion that can be drawn from each passage.   Most Americans think that sport utility vehicles (SUVs) are much safer than sports cars. And it’s true that a 5,000-pound SUV like the Chevrolet TrailBlazer is better at what the automotive industry calls “passive safety”; in other words, in a head-on collision with a car, a vehicle like a Ford Explorer is not going to be the one that’s crushed. However, many cars are much better than SUVs at what the automotive industry calls “active safety.” Midsize cars like the Toyota Camry and subcompact cars like the Volkswagen Jetta are more nimble, so their drivers have the ability to maneuver them to avoid crashes with the Explorers and the TrailBlazers. Being nimble and maneuverable, therefore, is often better than being big. Take, for example, emergency-stopping tests performed on both the TrailBlazer and the two-seater Porsche Boxster convertible. At 60 miles per hour, bringing the TrailBlazer to a sudden stop took about 150 feet and was not accomplished easily, for 5,000 pounds of rubber and steel does not stop that fast without a lot of screeching and bucking. The Boxster, however, can come to a complete stop in about 124 feet, which is a difference of about two car lengths. Obviously, two car lengths can, in many situations, mean the difference between life and death. Perhaps it should come as no surprise, then, that the accident fatality rate for drivers of even some subcompact cars is half that for drivers of SUVs like the Ford Explorer, and drivers of the midsize imports, cars like the Camry and the Honda Accord, have the lowest accident fatality rates of all. (Source of information: Malcolm Gladwell, “Big and Bad,” The New Yorker, January 12, 2004, pp. 28–33.) From this passage, a reader might logically draw which conclusion?

Following the unpopular reign of Oliver Cromwell, the English people gladly welcomed this King back to the throne.

Match the metal within amalgam to it’s characteristic.

  Quiz: Using Context Clues and Word Parts Directions: Use one of the word parts below to fill in the blanks and create a word that fits the context.               jec/ject (to throw)                                                       mis/miso (to hate)             junc/junct (to join)                                                      mono (one)             gen/gene (production, formation, origin, cause)              The grammatical part of speech known as a con____________________tion includes the words for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so, all of which join equal words, phrases, or sentence parts together.

  Directions: Choose the appropriate letter to indicate the conclusion that can be drawn from each passage.     In his book Luxury Fever, author Robert H. Frank asks us to imagine two parallel universes, two societies that are isolated from another but alike in all respects except for one: everyone in Society A lives in a 4,000-square-foot house, and everyone in Society B lives in a 3,000-square-foot house. He also asks us to imagine that the people who live in Society B used the resources they saved by building smaller houses to improve their overall living conditions by funding the construction of high-speed public transportation. Therefore, when the residents of Society B leave their 3,000-square-foot houses to go to work, they face a hassle-free, fifteen-minute commute. Meanwhile, the residents of Society A, who poured all of their resources into an extra 1,000 square feet of living space, face a grueling, one-hour long automobile commute through heavy traffic, a stressful activity that has been shown to cause significant mental and physical damage. What Frank wants to know is this: In which society would you choose to live? (Source of information: Robert H. Frank, “How Not To Buy Happiness,” Daedalus, Vol. 133, Issue 2.) From this passage, a reader might logically draw which conclusion?

Which classification of amalgam restoration is a matrix band and retainer (such as a Toffelmire) used for?

  Quiz: Using Context Clues and Word Parts Directions: Use one of the word parts below to fill in the blanks and create a word that fits the context.               jec/ject (to throw)                                                       mis/miso (to hate)             junc/junct (to join)                                                      mono (one)             gen/gene (production, formation, origin, cause)              No one really knows the ____________________sis of the legend; its origins are lost in the dim past.