CAEC Practice Test 7

All 25 questions in this test

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1. A pattern starts at 5 and adds 3 each time. Which rule gives the nth term?

   1. 5n + 3
   2. n + 3
   3. 3n + 5
   4. 3n + 2

2. In 2008, the Government of Canada formally apologized for which policy?

   1. The residential school system
   2. The creation of the RCMP
   3. The building of the national railway
   4. Canada's role in the First World War

3. To: All warehouse staff From: Priya Nandakumar, Operations Manager Subject: New shift schedule starting March 3 Starting Monday, March 3, we are moving from two shifts to three so that orders can ship within 24 hours. Day shift: 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Evening shift: 2:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Night shift: 10:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. The 30-minute overlap between shifts is for handover. Outgoing team leads will brief incoming leads on unfinished orders and any equipment problems. Night-shift staff will receive a premium of $2.00 per hour on top of their regular wage. Shift choices will be offered by seniority. Please submit your first and second choices on the form in the break room by Friday, February 21. If you have child-care or transportation needs that affect your availability, please speak with Human Resources before February 21 so we can take them into account. Thank you for helping us serve our customers faster.

   What can a reader conclude from the paragraph about child-care and transportation needs in the shift memo?

   1. The company is willing to consider personal circumstances
   2. Human Resources will choose every worker's shift
   3. Workers with children cannot work the night shift
   4. Transportation to the warehouse will be provided

4. Which tool should be used to measure 45 mL of liquid accurately?

   1. A thermometer
   2. A beaker with no markings
   3. A graduated cylinder
   4. A metre stick

5. Monthly bus riders (thousands): Jan 42, Feb 40, Mar 46, Apr 51, May 55. Between which two months did ridership rise the most?

   1. April to May
   2. February to March
   3. January to February
   4. March to April

6. What does it mean that Canada is a constitutional monarchy?

   1. The monarch makes all laws without any Parliament
   2. The Sovereign is head of state, under a constitution
   3. Each province chooses its own king or queen
   4. The Prime Minister is crowned at each election

7. On a map with a scale of 1:50 000, two towns are 6.5 cm apart. What is the real distance in kilometres?

   1. 32.5 km
   2. 325 km
   3. 0.325 km
   4. 3.25 km

8. Which statement is an inference rather than an observation?

   1. The plant is probably getting too much water.
   2. The soil in the pot feels wet when touched.
   3. The plant measures exactly 24 cm tall.
   4. Three of the lower leaves have brown spots.

9. To: All warehouse staff From: Priya Nandakumar, Operations Manager Subject: New shift schedule starting March 3 Starting Monday, March 3, we are moving from two shifts to three so that orders can ship within 24 hours. Day shift: 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Evening shift: 2:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Night shift: 10:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. The 30-minute overlap between shifts is for handover. Outgoing team leads will brief incoming leads on unfinished orders and any equipment problems. Night-shift staff will receive a premium of $2.00 per hour on top of their regular wage. Shift choices will be offered by seniority. Please submit your first and second choices on the form in the break room by Friday, February 21. If you have child-care or transportation needs that affect your availability, please speak with Human Resources before February 21 so we can take them into account. Thank you for helping us serve our customers faster.

   According to the shift-schedule memo, how will shifts be assigned?

   1. By each team lead choosing the people they want
   2. By the order in which staff hand in their forms
   3. By seniority, using staff members' first and second choices
   4. By a random draw that managers will hold on March 3

10. Choose the correct word: "The new policy will ___ everyone who works the night shift."

    1. effective
    2. effect
    3. affection
    4. affect

11. Which sentence uses the apostrophe correctly?

    1. The children's coats are hanging by the door.
    2. The childrens coats are hanging by the door.
    3. The children's coat's are hanging by the door.
    4. The childrens' coats are hanging by the door.

12. Which conclusion is strongest for an essay arguing that libraries should stay open until 10 p.m.?

    1. Later hours would let shift workers and students use a space their taxes already fund.
    2. Some public libraries in our province also have very interesting modern architecture.
    3. In conclusion, that is everything that I wanted to say in my essay about libraries.
    4. Libraries have books, computers and comfortable chairs that visitors can use all day.

13. The night before her first day at the warehouse, Rosa laid out her clothes the way she used to lay out her children's school clothes: jeans, a grey sweatshirt, the steel-toed boots that still smelled of the store. She was forty-six. She had not had a paycheque of her own in nineteen years. At six-thirty the next morning, the supervisor, a tall man named Okafor, handed her a scanner the size of a brick. "Every box has a story," he said. "This tells you where it's going." Rosa nodded as if she understood. The scanner beeped at her like an impatient bird. By ten o'clock her feet ached and she had sent two boxes to the wrong bay. A young worker named Dylan, who could not have been older than her son, showed her how to tilt the scanner so the red line caught the label. "Took me a week," he said. She doubted that, but she was grateful he said it. At lunch she sat alone in her car and ate the sandwich she had made at five. Through the windshield she watched the trucks back up to the loading doors, one after another, patient as cattle. She thought about driving home. Instead, she went back inside. In the afternoon the scanner stopped sounding like a bird and started sounding like a yes. When the whistle blew at three, Okafor checked her numbers and raised his eyebrows. "Not bad for day one," he said. Rosa drove home with the window down, even though it was October.

    In the warehouse story, which literary device is used in "patient as cattle"?

    1. Simile
    2. Alliteration
    3. Metaphor
    4. Personification

14. Which sentence uses the most precise word choice for a persuasive essay?

    1. The new crosswalk cut pedestrian injuries on Elm Street by half.
    2. The new crosswalk made things a lot better on Elm Street.
    3. The new crosswalk was really good and helped stuff.
    4. The new crosswalk changed a bunch of things for people.

15. A student wants to show what percent of a class prefers each of four sports. Which graph is best?

    1. A line graph
    2. A double line graph
    3. A circle graph
    4. A scatterplot

16. What is the main role of a consumer in a market economy?

    1. Buying goods and services
    2. Printing money for the government
    3. Setting the national interest rate
    4. Writing the country's trade laws

17. What does the CAEC Writing test ask you to produce?

    1. One persuasive writing task
    2. A summary of a reading passage
    3. Two short personal letters
    4. Forty grammar questions

18. A taxi charges $12 plus $0.25 per minute of waiting. Which expression gives the cost for m minutes?

    1. 0.25(12 + m)
    2. 12m + 0.25
    3. 12 + 0.25m
    4. 12.25m

19. A right triangle has legs of 6 cm and 8 cm. How long is the hypotenuse?

    1. 7 cm
    2. 48 cm
    3. 10 cm
    4. 14 cm

20. Which territory was created in 1999 and has a majority Inuit population?

    1. The Northwest Territories
    2. Labrador, part of Newfoundland
    3. Yukon, west of the Mackenzie River
    4. Nunavut

21. Which battle in the First World War is remembered as a defining victory for Canadian troops, fought in April 1917?

    1. The Plains of Abraham
    2. Vimy Ridge
    3. Queenston Heights
    4. Batoche

22. Without a calculator, what is 2/3 + 1/4?

    1. 3/7
    2. 3/12
    3. 11/12
    4. 8/12

23. A new video game becomes very popular, but the company made only a few copies. What is the most likely short-term result?

    1. The company is required by law to stop selling
    2. Prices fall because many copies are unsold
    3. Demand for the game drops to zero immediately
    4. Prices rise and copies sell out

24. What does "sense of place" mean in geography?

    1. The feelings and identity people connect to a place
    2. The distance between two cities on a map
    3. The number of people living in one square kilometre
    4. The exact latitude and longitude of a location

25. The night before her first day at the warehouse, Rosa laid out her clothes the way she used to lay out her children's school clothes: jeans, a grey sweatshirt, the steel-toed boots that still smelled of the store. She was forty-six. She had not had a paycheque of her own in nineteen years. At six-thirty the next morning, the supervisor, a tall man named Okafor, handed her a scanner the size of a brick. "Every box has a story," he said. "This tells you where it's going." Rosa nodded as if she understood. The scanner beeped at her like an impatient bird. By ten o'clock her feet ached and she had sent two boxes to the wrong bay. A young worker named Dylan, who could not have been older than her son, showed her how to tilt the scanner so the red line caught the label. "Took me a week," he said. She doubted that, but she was grateful he said it. At lunch she sat alone in her car and ate the sandwich she had made at five. Through the windshield she watched the trucks back up to the loading doors, one after another, patient as cattle. She thought about driving home. Instead, she went back inside. In the afternoon the scanner stopped sounding like a bird and started sounding like a yes. When the whistle blew at three, Okafor checked her numbers and raised his eyebrows. "Not bad for day one," he said. Rosa drove home with the window down, even though it was October.

    In the story about Rosa's first day at the warehouse, how long had it been since she earned her own paycheque?

    1. Forty-six years
    2. Six years
    3. One week
    4. Nineteen years