GED PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS

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GED PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: 1) Read the short passage from "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller 2) Answer the question "As soon as I could spell a few words my teacher gave me slips of cardboard on which printed words were in raised letters. I quickly learned that each printed word stood for an object, an act, or a quality. I had a frame in which I could arrange the words in little sentences; but before I ever put sentences in the frame I used to make them in objects. I found the slips of paper which represented, for example, "doll," "is," "on," "bed" and placed each name on its object; then I put my doll on the bed with the words is, on, bed arranged beside the doll, thus making a sentence of the words, and at the same time carrying out the idea of the sentence with the things themselves." From whose perspective is this excerpt written?

• Helen's mother, the parent of a young, blind girl
• Helen, a young, blind girl learning language
• Miss Sullivan, a teacher for the blind

Answer:

From whose perspective is this excerpt written?

• Helen, a young, blind girl learning language

Writers choose a particular point of view to narrate each of their stories. Point of view will vary from one story to the next.

Question 2: 1) Read the passage

2) Answer the question below "Never the idle, pampered doyenne of Mount Vernon, Mary Washington was involved in everything from distilling rose water to gathering ash for making soap. All the while, she retained a folksy, unpretentious style. It was said that even when she wore the same gown for a week, it somehow managed to remain spotless. A woman with a delicate constitution, Martha was often sick for weeks at a time with liver and stomach troubles, known as "bilious fever." Which of the following are supporting details of the main idea?

• Martha was often sick for weeks at a time with liver and stomach troubles.
• Martha sometimes wore the same gown for a week.
• Martha was involved in distilling rose water and gathering ash for making soap.
• Both a and b

Answer:

Which of the following are supporting details of the main idea?

• Martha was involved in distilling rose water and gathering ash for making soap.

The main idea is that Martha is not an idle woman.

Question 3: Read the following sentence.

"Our company are always aiming to improve, therefore, we appreciate any feedback that you are able to give us." Which correction should be made to this sentence?

• change "our" to "hour", so that the sentence would read, "Hour company are always

aiming...."

• change "aiming" to "aims", so that the sentence would read, "...are always aims to improve....
• change "are" to "is", so that the sentence would read, "Our company is always aiming to

improve..."

Answer:

Which correction should be made to this sentence?

• change "are" to "is", so that the sentence would read, "Our company is always aiming to improve..."

Question 4: Find the mean, median, mode, and range of the following set of numbers:

10, 11, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20

Answer:

Mean: 14, Median: 13, Mode: 11, Range: 10 Question 5: _______is done when force applied to an object moves the object:

• Transformation
• Biological kindness
• Conservation
• Work

Answer:

_______is done when force applied to an object moves the object:

• Work

Question 6: What are the three phases or states of matter?

• Liquid, Gas, Ice
• Liquid, Solid, Gas
• Gas, liquid, Slippery
• Liquid, Gas, hard

Answer:

What are the three phases or states of matter?

• Liquid, Solid, Gas

Question 7: Read the following sentence.

"Karen, a shift manager will lead our new staff orientation, on Monday, December 8th at 9 AM." Which correction should be made to this sentence?

• Karen a shift manager will lead our new staff orientation, on Monday, December 8th at 9 am.
• Karen, a shift manager, will lead our new staff orientation, on Monday, December 8th at 9 am.
• Karen a Shift Manager will lead our new staff orientation, on Monday, December 8th at 9 am.

Answer:

Which correction should be made to this sentence?

• Karen, a shift manager, will lead our new staff orientation, on Monday, December 8th at 9 am.

Question 8: A windmill is used to create electrical energy.

This change from one form of energy to another (wind to electric) is called:

• Energy transformation
• Kinetic energy
• Mechanical energy
• Electrical energy

Answer:

A windmill is used to create electrical energy.

This change from one form of energy to another (wind to electric) is called:

• Energy transformation

Question 9: 1) Read the passage about the American Revolution

2) Answer the question "The English lost, but it took seven years and a world war to beat them. The effects of the military struggle thus had time to make themselves felt in every corner of the colonies (or states, as they soon began to call themselves). Soldiers, sailors, members of Congress, farmers, town-dwellers, men, women and children, all experienced the war, whether as a bloody struggle on their doorsteps, or as a terrible inflation which upset all the familiar patterns of trade, or as a general scarcity of goods (which was fine for those who produced them, and especially for the farmers who grew the goods the armies needed), or, most of all, as a revolution: an overturning of all the old political ways and means. War hurried on the change and in many cases determined its direction. It could not have done this if victory had come to either side as promptly as was hoped at Philadelphia and Westminster." If victory in the colonies had not taken so long, what might have been the outcome?

• Change would have taken longer.
• The colonists would not have been as united through the war effort.
• The English would have won
• Both