M.Ed Fundamental Subjects: Content Knowledge 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A student writes: 'The team played good in the final game.' Which grammatical error is present?
- Incorrect verb tense
- Adjective used in place of an adverb (Correct answer)
- Incorrect subject-verb agreement
- Dangling modifier
Correct answer: Adjective used in place of an adverb
'Good' is an adjective; the adverb 'well' should be used to modify the verb 'played.'
Question 2: Which mathematical property justifies the statement: 3 × (4 + 5) = 3 × 4 + 3 × 5?
- Commutative property of multiplication
- Associative property of addition
- Distributive property of multiplication over addition (Correct answer)
- Identity property of multiplication
Correct answer: Distributive property of multiplication over addition
The distributive property states that a(b + c) = ab + ac, which is exactly what is shown.
Question 3: Which organelle is primarily responsible for producing ATP through cellular respiration?
- Nucleus
- Ribosome
- Mitochondria (Correct answer)
- Golgi apparatus
Correct answer: Mitochondria
Mitochondria are the sites of aerobic respiration and the primary producers of ATP in eukaryotic cells.
Question 4: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 primarily addressed which issue?
- Tariff policy between northern and southern states
- The expansion of slavery into new western territories (Correct answer)
- Native American relocation west of the Mississippi
- Federal funding for internal improvements
Correct answer: The expansion of slavery into new western territories
The Missouri Compromise balanced free and slave states by regulating slavery's expansion above and below the 36°30' latitude line.
Question 5: In music, what does the term 'forte' indicate?
- Play slowly
- Play loudly (Correct answer)
- Play softly
- Play smoothly
Correct answer: Play loudly
Forte (f) is an Italian dynamic marking instructing the performer to play loudly.
Question 6: A student solving 2/3 ÷ 1/4 incorrectly gets 2/12. What is the likely error?
- The student added instead of divided
- The student multiplied by the divisor instead of its reciprocal (Correct answer)
- The student subtracted the numerators
- The student inverted the wrong fraction
Correct answer: The student multiplied by the divisor instead of its reciprocal
To divide fractions, you must multiply by the reciprocal of the divisor (1/4 becomes 4/1); multiplying by 1/4 instead gives the wrong answer.
Question 7: Which literary device is used in the phrase 'the wind whispered through the trees'?
- Hyperbole
- Personification (Correct answer)
- Alliteration
- Onomatopoeia
Correct answer: Personification
Personification attributes a human action (whispering) to a non-human entity (the wind).
M.Ed Fundamental Subjects: Content Knowledge 2
A student writes: 'The team played good in the final game.' Which grammatical error is present?