APWH COMPREHENSION PRACTICE - Unit 1 & Unit 2 (1200-1450)
Completing this assignment will count as extra credit.
For each of the passages below, you will answer guiding questions to help you better understand what the passage is saying. This practice will help improve your academic vocabulary and reading skills.
For questions that ask for the DEFINITION or SYNONYMS of a word, use this website to look those up: https://www.wordsmyth.net/mobile_site/wcdt/#/start
Group 1
Source 1.1
The mind of Your Majesty does not hesitate to make a change; it is only the minister in charge of the government who still persists in his obstinacy. Thus the people’s feelings are greatly agitated and public opinion becomes more clamorous. If one insists on carrying these policies out, certain failure awaits them in the end. ... Rather than pursue one mistaken policy at the expense of a hundred other undertakings, would it not be better to bestow a grand favor and reassure the people’s minds by doing away with the disturbances caused by those sent out to enforce these decrees and by manifesting your humanity to the extent of abolishing the interest charged on the crop loans?
Remonstrance Against the New Laws, Cheng Hao (Chinese philosopher), Song Dynasty, 11th century
Question 1a
In what region was this document created?
Question 1b
How long ago was this document written?
Question 1c
Look up the word “hesitate." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 1d
Look up the word “decree." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 1e
Look up the word “obstinacy." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 1f
Look up the word “agitated." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 1g
Look up the word “abolish." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 1h
Look up the word “undertaking." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 1i
According to the passage, who is causing continued problems?
Question 1j
How are the minister's actions affecting the people?
Question 1k
What does the author want the audience to do about the situation described?
Question 1l
“Rather than pursue one mistaken policy at the expense of a hundred other undertakings...” Which of the following matches the meaning of this quote most closely?
Question 1m
Which of the following actions does the author suggest to make the people feel less worried?
Group 2
Source 2.1
Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health. The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. And because health and sickness and their causes are sometimes manifest, and sometimes hidden and not to be comprehended except by the study of symptoms, we must also study the symptoms of health and disease. Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. Of these causes there are four kinds: material, efficient, formal, and final.
Avicenna (Persian scholar), On Medicine, 1020
Question 2a
In what region was this document created?
Question 2b
How long ago was this document written?
Question 2c
Look up the word “acquired." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 2d
Look up the word “manifest." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 2e
Look up the word “comprehend." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 2f
Look up the word “established." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 2g
According to the passage, why must physicians study symptoms?
Question 2h
“Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings…” Which of the following statement best matches the meaning of this quote from the passage?
Question 2i
In the passage, the word "manifest" most nearly means:
Question 2j
Which detail is an example of the author using structure and organization to support his claim?
Question 2k
What is the main idea of the passage?
Group 3
Source 3.1
And when we entered his tent, it was the first occasion since he had been made Emperor (that he had given an audience). He received likewise the ambassadors, but very few persons entered his tent. Here also such great quantities of presents were given him by the ambassadors—silks, purples, [canopies], silk girdles worked in gold, splendid furs and other things—that it was a marvel to see. Here also it was that a kind of umbrella or awning that is carried over the Emperor's head was presented to him, and it was all covered with precious stones. Here also a certain governor of a province brought to him many camels covered with [canopies] and with saddles on them, and a kind of arrangement inside of which people could sit, I think there were forty or fifty of them ; and (he also gave him) many horses and mules covered with armor, some of hide, others of iron.
The Journey of Friar John of Pian de Carpine (present-day Italy) to the Court of Guyuk Khan (grandson of Genghis Khan), 1245-1247
Question 3a
In what region was this document created?
Question 3b
How long ago was this document written?
Question 3c
Look up the word “ambassadors ." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 3d
Look up the word “splendid ." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 3e
Look up the word “precious ." Write the DEFINITION and ONE SYNONYM below.
Question 3f
Why does the author describe entering the emperor's tent as “special”?
Question 3g
Which phrase from the passage shows that the emperor had received many valuable gifts?
Question 3h
The passage states that the umbrella or awning presented to the emperor was…
Question 3i
Which of the following statements is supported by information from the passage?
Question 3j
The author’s tone in the passage is best described as:
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