Read the sentence.
The restaurants on the pier in Monterey handed out samples of clam chowder.
Which identifies the type of noun boldfaced in the sentence?
A. Common
B. Proper
C. Noncount
D. Pronoun

2. Which of the following statements best summarizes the role of media in changing attitudes toward smoking?

A. Media used to protray smoking as something everybody did; now media protray smoking as a personal choice.
B. Media used to protray smoking as something that beautiful woman and masculine men did; now media campaigns emphasize the financial costs of smoking.
C. Media used to protray smoking as patriotic; now media protray smoking as un-American.
D. Media used to protray smoking as cool and sophisticated; now media protray smoking as dangerous.

3. Read the passage:
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
Identify the allusion. Then identify the effect of that allusion.

A. The speaker alludes to rivers from his childhood; the effect is that the reader understands that the rivers were created by African American.
B. The speaker alludes to rivers from his childhood; the effect is that the rivers are part of the collective voice.
C. The speaker alludes to rivers as old as civilization itself; the reader recongnizes that the poet is intelligent.
D. The speaker alludes to rivers as old as civilization itself; the poet shows how the survival of his people is like the long life of the rivers.