Error Detection Drill #8

1) Willie Dixon’s A) upbeat blues compositions helped usher in the Chicago blues sound during the 1950’s and (B) have become standard numbers for the many young rock groups (C) trying to achieve popularity (D) during the 1960’s. (E) No error

2) (A) When the Spanish conquistadors reached Peru in 1532, (B) they encountered the vast empire of the Incas, (C) it extended along the Pacific coast of South America from modern Ecuador to central Chile and (D) inland across the Andes. (E) No error

3) Unlike (A) her best friend Margie, (B) making the varsity soccer team (C) as a freshman, Jill (D) did not make the team until her junior year. (E) No error

4) Although the precise date and place of the origin of baseball are (A) hotly debated, it is (B) beyond dispute that the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn (C) play an important role in (D) its early development. (E) No error

5) By 2003, (A) more than 684,000 students in the United States had enrolled in charter schools, publicly funded schools (B) that pledged better academic results and were (C) unencumbered by many of the regulations (D) governing ordinary public schools. (E) No error

6) The common cold, (A) like chickenpox, measles, and (B) many other viral diseases, (C) can be spread both before and after (D) their symptoms emerge. (E) No error

7) (A) Although he had never played organized sports, whenever Justin, (B) who was uncommonly tall, (C) attends a basketball game, fans would (D) ask him for an autograph. (E) No error

8) (A) From its modest beginnings as a series of brief vignettes (B) and its establishment as the longest-running prime-time comedy series on television, The Simpsons has transformed (C) the way that both audiences and television programmers (D) view the animated sitcom. (E) No error

9) Venezuela (A) devotes a higher percentage (B) of its budget to education (C) than do other large Latin American countries (D) such as Mexico and Brazil. (E) No error

10) Although (A) they are not fast runners, wolves (B) could have maintained a loping run (C) for many miles, running (D) thorughout the night if necessary. (E) No error.

11) The credit for making Franz Kafka (A) internationally famous as a writer (B) belong to his friend, novelist Max Brod, (C) who edited Kafka’s unpublished manuscripts (D) and then had them published, despite Kafka’s dying wishes to the contrary. (E) No error

12) (A) Unlike country-and-western bands, (B) which often feature the harmonica, banjo, or fiddle, rock bands (C) tended to use (D) electronic equipment, including amplifiers, guitars, and organs. (E) No error

13) (A) Like her nonfiction, Jean Craighead George’s fiction (B) draws extensively not only from published material but also (C) she had firsthand observations of animals (D) and ecological systems. (E) No error

14) (A) Most ships move (B) through the Suez Canal under their own power, (C) so extremely large ships must be (D) assisted by a tugboat. (E) No error

15) Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (A) is the story of a nameless young Black man who (B) ultimately decides to forge his own identity (C) rather than accept (D) the one assigned to him. (E) No error