Free CLEP English Exam MCQ Question and Answers

Question 1

What is the best method to change the first part of sentence 17?

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completing my business degree and working as an accountant

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finishing school and going into accounting

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completing my degree in business and beginning to work as an accountant

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starting to be an accountant

Question 2

Which of the following best describes the primary tactic employed to promote the passage's core idea?

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providing examples

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narrating incidents

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comparing similar situations

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analyzing causes

Question 3

Choose the appropriate error. No sentence contains more than one error. If No Error exists, then select the no error

His method (1) of doing business is (2) hardly appreciated; he (3) feels inferior (4) than others

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than

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of

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hardly

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feels

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no error

Question 4

Choose the appropriate error. No sentence contains more than one error. If No Error exists, then select the no error

(1)It was the (2)worse storm (3) that the inhabitants of the island (4)could remember.

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worse

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It

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that

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could

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no error

Question 5

Choose the appropriate error. No sentence contains more than one error. If No Error exists, then select the no error

He had no interest (1)toward music, art, or the theater, (2) since his time (3) was spent (4) in making money.

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toward

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since

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was spent

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in making

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no error

Question 6

Choose the appropriate error. No sentence contains more than one error. If No Error exists, then select the no error

Gabriel (1)has (2) no equal as a salesman; his commissions are (3) larger than those made by almost any other (4) salesman.

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no

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has

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larger than

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salesman

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no error

Question 7

Choose the appropriate error. No sentence contains more than one error. If No Error exists, then select the no error

The actors (1) were (2) already to perform long (3) before the curtain (4) went up.

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already

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were

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before

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went

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no error